Hints and tips:
...Indeed, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting, the score’s best moments come when female voices soar in melodies that can be ravishing....
...Conflicting forces are at play in the music of Ohmme, the band formed in 2014 in Chicago by school friends Macie Stewart and Sima Cunningham....
...But the electronic aspect of Cunningham’s score sounded underwritten and overly abstract, a collection of loud digital hums and random flurries of oddball computer melodies....
...Songs are loosely structured, lyrics are abstruse or abstract, vocal melodies pursue a jumpy, unpredictable path or make their way up spooky chromatic scales....
...AZD attempts renewal through a tenuous application to melody....
...These unusual acoustic effects were a response to Cunningham’s music....
...Morris has dedicated the performances to his friend, “the divine Merce Cunningham”, who died last month....
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