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Webern/Bejart: 5 Mvts for String Quartet/Duet (1969)
June 14th, 2007 by Roger Bourland

Here is a striking pairing: Maurice BĂ©jart 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.


2 Responses  
  • Brad Wood writes:
    June 14th, 2007 at 9:32 am

    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.

  • Brad Wood writes:
    June 14th, 2007 at 7:05 pm

    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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