Meredith Monk
On its Cantaloupe Music debut, Phaedra Ensemble enters Monk’s strange, haunting sound world—where strings, reeds, voices, and silence dissolve familiar ideas of classical music.
What it cost Meredith Monk to be uncompromising! In the early days of her experimentations, the dismissive, often patronizing reviews included lines like her music “made my cats bite each other.”
Any performance of Meredith Monk’s is spare to the point of enigma, and also tremendously evocative.
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