Terry Riley 90th Birthday Celebration
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Fri 17 Apr 202620:30 - 22:15Interval 20:55Grote Zaal
Program
20.30 / Grote Zaal / Main Program
Terry Riley A Rainbow in Curved Air (arr. Gyan Riley)
Terry Riley In C
22.15 / Festivalcafé (Foyerdeck 1) / After-concert
Subbacultcha & Nothing Here Now x Minimal Music Festival: Live in the Festival café with Gra Paulo, Leïla Alice, Alpha Maid & Mhm, Mhm
Credits
Bang on a Can All-Stars:
Chris Lightcap bass
David Cossin percussion
David Friend piano
Arlen Hlusko cello
Taylor Levine guitar
Ken Thomson clarinet
Guest musicians:
Jeffrey Bruinsma violin
Frank Wienk percussion
Tineke Postma saxophone
Jawa Manla ud
Andrew Cotton sound engineer
There are musical works that you simply must hear live in your lifetime, and tonight, we have not one, but two such classics on the programme. Terry Riley is a minimal music icon whose idiosyncratic blend of improvisation, electronica and drone music has had a massive influence on the music of our time. Riley recently turned ninety, and we are celebrating this with his ground-breaking masterpieces, In C and A Rainbow in Curved Air. The New York-based Bang on a Can All-Stars are the dream performers for this occasion.
In 1964, Terry Riley jotted down some fifty mini-fragments on a single A4 sheet of paper: this was the score for the pioneering In C. Because of the interpretive freedom given to the musicians, no two renditions of the piece are exactly alike. Five years later, Riley struck gold again with A Rainbow in Curved Air: an album of improvisations and tape loops drawing from jazz and Indian music, which would go on to influence generations of ambient, fusion and electronic musicians. Tonight’s arrangement comes courtesy of Riley’s son, Gyan.
