Here is a striking pairing: Maurice Béjart choreographs Anton Webern’s “Five Movements for String Quartet” (Op.5) for dancers Loipa Araujo and Jorge Esquivel. The music is played on a scratchy phonograph player.
Webern/Bejart: 5 Mvts for String Quartet/Duet (1969)
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I wonder if that is the K-TEL Records performance.
Roger, I can’t recall if you ever heard Mike Michalski and John Schauer’s sendup of Webern done as a radio/tv commercial, “Webern’s Greatest Hits”? Perhaps I could persuade Mike to transcribe it into MP3 and allow publication. In any event I have it somewhere on cassette, and it is quite wonderful.
Note added in proof: “WGH” has a web presence, to my surprise, if only a paraphrase, from the redoubtable David Montgomery:
http://www.soundpostonline.com/archive/fall2003/page4.htm
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