{"id":55,"date":"2014-02-05T16:21:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T16:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bostonmodernbrass.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2014-02-13T16:22:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T16:22:39","slug":"february-5-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bostonmodernbrass.com\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"February 5, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also a horn player before he turned to composition, Hans Abrahamsen was a key figure in the Danish New Simplicity movement which was a reaction to the complexities of the Darmstadt school. Though an early piece, his brass quintet Round and In-Between already exemplifies his interest in the temporal aspect of music. Episodes and figures are moved in and out of phase, mechanically repeated and combined like a series of slides. On January 26, 2011, Boston received a nearly perfect performance of his masterpiece Schnee (Snow) by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludovicoensemble.org\/Ludovico\/Home.html\">Ludovico Ensemble<\/a>, not only musically but environmentally as well as a winter storm was in the process of burying New England in 10-15 inches of snow. Here are some <a href=\"http:\/\/musicofourepoch.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/25\/discovering-recent-masterworks-abrahamsens-schnee\/\">thoughts on this piece<\/a> by Jeff Means.<\/p>\n\n<script>\nvar zbPregResult = '0';\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also a horn player before he turned to composition, Hans Abrahamsen was a key figure in the Danish New Simplicity movement which was a reaction to the complexities of the Darmstadt school. Though an early piece, his brass quintet Round and In-Between already exemplifies his interest in the temporal aspect of music. Episodes and figures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bostonmodernbrass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bostonmodernbrass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bostonmodernbrass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bostonmodernbrass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bostonmodernbrass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bostonmodernbrass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"http:\/\/bostonmodernbrass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bostonmodernbrass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bostonmodernbrass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bostonmodernbrass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}