http://classical-scene.com/2008/11/01/musical-diaspora-and-exile-the-convulsion-of-two-world-wars-ma-commission-among-musical-presentations-at-crosscurrrents/ a virtual journal and blog of the classical music scene in Boston Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:41:41 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://classical-scene.com/2008/11/01/musical-diaspora-and-exile-the-convulsion-of-two-world-wars-ma-commission-among-musical-presentations-at-crosscurrrents/comment-page-1/#comment-27 deena Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:25:53 +0000 http://classical-scene.com/?p=343#comment-27 The final concert was really amazing! The piano piece by Alvin Curran seemed to bring sounds out of the piano and the room that I would never have thought possible -- waves of resonance, pulsing, blues-inflected masses of vibration. Bruce Brubaker is a virtuoso for the 21st century. Wow!! In the Bussotti pieces he made sounds of such fragile delicacy -- it was as emotionally powerful as the Curran in a completely different way. The final concert was really amazing! The piano piece by Alvin Curran seemed to bring sounds out of the piano and the room that I would never have thought possible — waves of resonance, pulsing, blues-inflected masses of vibration. Bruce Brubaker is a virtuoso for the 21st century. Wow!! In the Bussotti pieces he made sounds of such fragile delicacy — it was as emotionally powerful as the Curran in a completely different way.

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