Advent 2: The chord game
Prokofiev’s March from the Love for Three Oranges strictly speaking doesn’t end at the end of its first 16 counts, but it has all the gestures of a perfect cadence…
Advent 1: Solving musical problems
The opening of Mark Morris’s Drink to me only with thine eyes, choreographed to piano etudes by Virgil Thomson begins with a bizarre, meandering bitonal extravagance called Chromatic Double Harmonies…