Art of the StatesArt of the States: listen to new music from the USRecent Additions: Partita-Variations (1976) by George Rochberg- April 19, 2007 "'Tradition,' T. S. Eliot says, 'cannot be inherited, and if you want it, you must obtain it by great labour.' ... To regain through conscious and intense effort meaningfully personal connection with the traditions of the past and integrate that variegated past with an equally variegated present into a large, as inclusive as possible spectrum of seeming opposites is, I believe, to re-establish the inner tension a composer needs today in order to make the richest possible musical statements of...http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=343 Recent Additions: Pilgrimage (1983) by Andrew Imbrie- April 16, 2007 "The title occurred to me after the piece was completed. It expresses my view of this composition in particular (and my others in general): namely, that it was a journey in search of an answer. This kind of search may uncover an unexpected truth, or a cryptic ambiguity; but at least the pilgrim, in reaching the shrine after his journey, has by now acquired enough faith to reject the Ivesian implication that his question is unanswered."http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=344 |