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4th finale was performed by Lynghøj School Brass Band at Stændertorvet. Each performer was instructed to choose an action to perform, whether this was constant, intermittent or variable was up to the performer himself. The tune or sound could consist of a repetition, a cyclic progression or an evolving note, and could be freely invented or quoted from any source.
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4th Finale
by Philip Corner
4th finale was performed by Lynghøj School Brass Band at Stændertorvet. Each performer was instructed to choose an action to perform, whether this was constant, intermittent or variable was up to the performer himself. The tune or sound could consist of a repetition, a cyclic progression or an evolving note, and could be freely invented or quoted from any source.
The performers were instructed to continue their chosen sound, while slowly beginning to leave the area. As the orchestra left Stændertorvet, spectators followed in procession down the street towards the Viking Ship Museum.
April 6th, 2009
The score is published in “The Four Suits”, Something Else Press, and was featured at the Carnegie Hall Fluxconcert in 1964. It was the only piece (maybe one other) that got a reasonably good review, although condescending, in the N.Y.Times. I do not regard that as a compliment, and that critic has since gone on to disgrace himself on numerous other occasions—-he still is.
It is essentially a march…..an application of the principle “Pulse Polyphony”. Thoreau spoke of “a different drummer”: here they are all marching to different drummers. (If only the army could be like that!) The Fluxus Yearbook has a photo of the descent to 57th St. from the Carnegie Hall recital hall, Charlotte Moorman up front holding her cello, and conducted by Kuni Akiyama—who of course has his own independent beat.
This group of students was not very disciplined about performing out from under the baton of the teacher—a persistent problem with free music. It has been done again, much better, particularly at Bob Watts funeral festival in Pennsylvania,
I wrote a piece for that Brass Band (the director, i must admit, was very nice) but they did not want to play it. It was a version of the piece i did in Québec when i went up there with Eric.