It seems to evoke 1970s New York, with episodes of cop-show funk (Midnight Meet the Rain), bustling Latin percussion (Forces from Above) and jazzy horns that swarm like hot-tempered traffic.
Edward Cowie's world premiere, Earth Music 1 – The Great Barrier Reef, used cascades of percussion, gathering force like a large wave glittering with shoals of fish, manta rays, barracuda (not me being fanciful; he suggests this in his programme note) in its aurally charged nine minutes.
So it was that Galileo's classic dynamic puzzle about how to describe time and the force of percussion, or the force of body's impact, would remain unsolved, He could not, throughout his life find systematic relations among specific gravities, height of fall and percussive forces.
The piece resembles "Drumming," Reich's percussion tour de force of the early seventies, yet it's more jagged and eruptive.
Gustafsson charges into the opener with maddened-elephant bass-saxophone grunts over the wonderful Nilssen-Love's crunching rock drumming, Reboot is a tonally contrasting episode of dissonant whistles and high-pitched snarls over a speeding-train snare-drum pulse, and the frantic Red River is a percussion tour de force.
The New York Baroque Dance Company, the Dallas Black Dance Theater, Concert Royal (an early-music group) and a percussion ensemble join forces to bring back an unusual moment in the Haiti of the 1790's when traditional Haitian music and dance were united with the Baroque music and dance brought by French settlers.
NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY "Slide Force Meets Percussion," featuring Juan Pablo Torres, trombonist, and the New Jersey City University Percussion Ensemble.
It's a great piece that has solo percussion as the driving force throughout.
In sections of overt violence, Zacharias made the piano sound like it was in danger of shattering to pieces under the titanic force of percussion and resonance.
The recurrent climaxes of the symphony, those monster triple-forte chords over a roar of percussion, hit with maximum force, but the quieter passages had even greater impact, as Gergiev showed his wizardly ability to generate a low-hanging mist of timbre in the bass regions of the orchestra.
He calls it the force of percussion, which deals with two bodies interacting.
