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Monday, 26 July 2010 10:33

Written by Andrew Druckenbrod

The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble did its thing this last weekend, with artistic director Kevin Noe devising another brilliantly synthesized concert. He took Ligeti's "Musica Ricercata" as the spine for the concert at City Theatre, inserting a short work in between each of the 11 movements of the solo piano piece (performed by Conor Hanick, left) with no break between any of them. Please read the review here (not by me, but by a young writer here, Emily Fuggetta) for more details. I will only add that

 this production was particularly impressive because it created a creative and continuous production with out the benefit of text or plot. That's really hard to do. It is one thing to stage a string quartet or to combine two song cycles with singing. But transforming a bunch of unrelated instrumental works into a compelling greater piece is ridiculously hard. PNME and Noe pulled it off with a mixture of musical interest, humor and quality performance

 

PS. Here is my review of the second PNME concert, which I don't think I every did post on this blog. Of course, all of my writing first goes up on the PG website in the music section.

 

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