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Oct 12, 2011 · The music suggests fear and hesitance, with abrupt pizzicatos and flutter-tongued flutes - this is no comfortable old age. The orchestra really come into their own in the final section, The Face.
- Jane Shuttleworth
While John Fletcher considered Words and Music the weakest of Beckett's radio plays, Hugh Kenner considered it arguably the most moving work ever done for radio and Vivian Mercier praised it as one of Beckett's most powerful works along with Cascando (1961).
The music suggests fear and hesitance, with abrupt pizzicatos and flutter-tongued flutes - this is no comfortable old age. The orchestra really come into their own in the final section, The Face.
- Jane Shuttleworth
Feldman for Beckett C. David Hurwitz. Artistic Quality: 9. Sound Quality: 8. For Samuel Beckett perfectly reflects the absurdist aesthetic of the author of Waiting for Godot. Composed for a chamber ensemble of 15 players (four winds, four brass, four strings plus harp, piano, and vibraphone), the piece begins in the middle of nowhere, drifts ...
Apr 9, 2008 · The music for Words and Music was one of Feldman's last compositions -- he died later in 1987, having completed two more works, one of which is the haunting For Samuel Beckett. The relative warmth of Feldman's harmonic world in parts of Words and Music not only had considerable impact upon those final works, but also leaves one wondering what ...
Aug 3, 2018 · “On Morton Feldman and his work with Beckett how is Neither for you distinct from Words and Music in terms of tone and mood? Liam Browne: Neither was written for a solo high soprano voice and the text is stretched across a one hour-long period making the text indistinct whereas every word in Words and Music is accounted for and is spoken ...
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Jul 3, 2024 · Beckett allows the characters ‘words’ and the ‘music’ represented by an instrumental ensemble to confront each other - the audience can decide for themselves which level of communication moves them more. FOR ALL. A classic Beckett evening with the great actors Walter Hess and Stefan Merki - join us!
