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This class, the second in the Come to the Concert series, focuses on just two composers and two of their influential works. At the same time, it is an opportunity to examine two significant movements in classical music of the last seventy-five years. “Shaker Loops” by John Adams, begun as early as 1977, will invite us to explore “minimalist” elements in music. Likewise, Max Richter’s “Four Seasons” (2012) will provoke discussion of “recomposition” or “re-processing” of music — a controversial but not exactly a new idea. Our encounter with these works will help familiarize us not only with the individual compositions themselves but with stylistic evolution of contemporary classical music.
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