Mr. Zorn has long been a hero of the downtown contemporary-music scene, a rebel who willfully combines, tweaks and otherwise appropriates into his brash, audacious pieces whatever kind of music suits him.
The quartet sounded better in Stravinsky's brash Three Pieces for String Quartet and better still in Mr. Woolf's "Mekong Delta Blues," a striking mash-up of rustic strings, restless percussion (played by William Trigg) and samples from recordings of Vietnamese classical music.
The festival concert at Spoleto was a performance of "Surrogate Cities," a big, brash bear of a piece by Heiner Goebbels, a German.
At first glance, the small, low table was upstaged by brasher neo-Baroque pieces, by Mr. Starck and Ferruccio Laviani, placed near the front of Kartell's display area.
Sceptics feared that William Ackman, the fund's brash principal, would ruin a piece of Canadiana by extracting as much profit as possible while failing to invest for the long term.
As a prelude to each of the festival's four concerts, the first of which was on Tuesday evening, MATA is playing "The Hidden," a 10-minute multimedia piece with a brash electronic score by Mike Vernusky and amusingly quirky quick-cut video images by Daniel Maldonado.
This audacious piece is like a brash, American contemporary counterpart to Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.
Ms. Supové gave a high-energy reading of the piece, which ends with brash post-tonal clusters.
"The Last Good Chance" is an ambitious piece of work, a brash, big-strokes book that strenuously avoids all the dreaded pitfalls of the typical first novel.
The list of revivals includes the striking "Profiles" (1979), with its two-dimensional figures; the witty, brash "Book of Beasts" (1971); the playful "Piece Period" (1962); as well as returning favorites like "Sunset," "Piazzolla Caldera," and "Roses".
