Ned Rorem in Nantucket - 3 January, 1988
from Lies: A Diary 1986-1999, page 111:
A half-hour with tapes of Leslie Bassett. The three pieces seem directionless. I keep waiting for IT to happen - IT being generally a point of theatricality, but in this case a moment of reflection amidst the fustian. Festooned with bombastic percussion, it's all decoration (as distinct from decorative), loud remplissage with no melodic distinction amongst those augmented triad chords.
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Ned Rorem, Lies: A Diary 1986-1999 (New York, 2002), p. 111. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1436457917437 accessed: 2 November, 2024
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music by Leslie Bassett
written by Leslie Bassett |
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Date/Time | 3 January, 1988 |
Medium | playback |
Listening Environment | in private, indoors, solitary |
Originally submitted by pashworth on Thu, 09 Jul 2015 17:05:17 +0100
Approved on Tue, 02 Feb 2016 00:15:40 +0000