Search - Morton Feldman, Ralph Lane, Roger Woodward :: Morton Feldman: Triadic Memories

Almost like a granite monument,pure love of the piano sound

04/04/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"You really need to love the piano to enjoy this work. Its extended length is difficult to get to know and that's not Feldman's fault that's ours for our ongoing desire for pure entertainment in music, fast quick fixes of sound. With Feldman you have an engaged aesthetic at work and you had better have the patience. If you don't simply click and move on. He devoted his life toward searching for pure beauty that engaged a musical process. If that sounds simplistic it really isn't when you take pen to paper. For Feldman always had to have an interesting concept at work. And here the problematics of writing longer works intrigued his creativity. In listening to this work,you might find simplistic aid in thinking of the piano as wind-chimes. That you needn't bother appraising each individual tone, it's not important. What this work teaches us is patience and listening, two disciplines that have escaped postmodern culture."