Edward T. Cone Concert Series: Stephen Drury Plays “The People United Will Never Be Defeated!”
For the Teatime at Home series, IAS Artist-in-Residence David Lang writes:
On today’s rebroadcast, pianist Stephen Drury plays Frederic Rzewski’s masterpiece The People United Will Never Be Defeated! This piece, thirty-six variations on a Chilean revolutionary song, cycles kaleidoscopically through every style of piano playing in music history, from Bach-style counterpoint to pointillism to stride piano to free improvisation. Wildly virtuosic, it is regarded by many as the greatest piano work of the last fifty years. And, might I add, Drury gives one of the most jaw-droppingly spectacular performances of this piece that I have ever heard.
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Music from the IAS is part of the Classical Network In Concert series, broadcasting concerts from the Edward T. Cone Concert Series, presented in Wolfenson Hall at the Institute for Advanced Study for over a decade.
Hosted by David Osenberg. Produced at the studios of WWFM The Classical Network www.wwfm.org
For the Teatime at Home series, IAS Artist-in-Residence David Lang writes:
On today’s rebroadcast, pianist Stephen Drury plays Frederic Rzewski’s masterpiece The People United Will Never Be Defeated! This piece, thirty-six variations on a Chilean revolutionary song, cycles kaleidoscopically through every style of piano playing in music history, from Bach-style counterpoint to pointillism to stride piano to free improvisation. Wildly virtuosic, it is regarded by many as the greatest piano work of the last fifty years. And, might I add, Drury gives one of the most jaw-droppingly spectacular performances of this piece that I have ever heard.
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Music from the IAS is part of the Classical Network In Concert series, broadcasting concerts from the Edward T. Cone Concert Series, presented in Wolfenson Hall at the Institute for Advanced Study for over a decade.
Hosted by David Osenberg. Produced at the studios of WWFM The Classical Network www.wwfm.org