Terry Riley, Claire Chase, Jack Quartet, Samuel Clay Birmaher
The Holy Liftoff
When flautist Claire Chase launched her call for a new flute repertoire for the twenty-first century, Terry Riley responded in typically idiosyncratic fashion
The Holy Liftoff by Claire Chase, JACK Quartet, Terry Riley, Samuel Clay Birmaher
Terry Riley has always had a propensity for cosmic whimsy. As such, and given the fluidity of his work over the last decades, it comes as no surprise that his contribution to flautist Claire Chase’s multi-decade Density 2036 project arrived not in the form of Sibelius-drafted PDFs but as a colourful sketchbook of caricatures, flying creatures, and doodled marginalia. Expectedly, Riley’s non-conformist approach resonated deeply with Chase’s vision of a future flute repertoire – one that...
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