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These are works for percussion ensemble (New York also involves a chamber orchestra), two of which were composed by Gavin Bryars especially for the Lyon-based group that plays them here.
Bryars: At Portage and Main; One Last Bar Then Joe Can Sing; New York – review Andrew Clements 2010
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So I cranked up the Gavin Bryars only to realize the novel was in fact set in Australia, and that Bryars himself is only marginally Canadian, so my theory of geographical affinity went completely to pot.
Archive 2007-03-01 Roger Sutton 2007
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So I cranked up the Gavin Bryars only to realize the novel was in fact set in Australia, and that Bryars himself is only marginally Canadian, so my theory of geographical affinity went completely to pot.
Reading along Roger Sutton 2007
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But you are the only person I know besides TheInfomancer who listens to Gavin Bryars.
Reading along Roger Sutton 2007
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The Wordless Music Orchestra, clad in phantasmal white, performed Gavin Bryars ' 1969 piece "The Sinking of the Titanic."
All Aboard the RMS Guggenheim Kimberly Chou 2011
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The contemporary side is provided by the London Contemporary Orchestra, whose programme frames the premiere of a new violin concerto by Scottish composer Martin Suckling, with works by Claude Vivier and Gérard Grisey; while Tom Waits's songs are presented in arrangements by Gavin Bryars.
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His new work, coyly entitled New Work and set to a fine composition by Gavin Bryars, incorporates all the familiar tropes.
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Bryars's score samples elements of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, so it may be that the duets are reflective of the Carthaginian queen's helpless and despairing fury at her lover's departure, but if so, this is far from obvious.
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Bruce Brooks is the only other person I knew who listened to Bryars, so now there are three.
Reading along Roger Sutton 2007
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Bryars is famous in the musical avant garde for his minimalist and indeterminist compositions, particularly the haunting The Sinking of the Titanic and the poignant Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet.
A seat on the churchyard cliff Arbogast 2008
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