IN C - Strings of Autumn, Prague

Terry Riley wrote his groundbreaking work “In C” in 1964, thus practically launching the triumphant march of American Minimalism even before Reich and Glass. Riley disposed of all the amenities of compositional technique and offered something that seemed like child’s play in comparison: a gradual process of constant, subtle transformation, which can be followed even by an untrained ear and which guides “In C” ever onwards. It is a clean, innovative, ingenious, mature and yet comprehensible, euphoric work. “Some respected artists thought that ‘In C’ was a joke when it appeared. But it was a revolution.” (Pavel Klusák)

Besides “In C”, the concert will bring works of the medieval period together with the compositions of Julia Wolfe, Anne Boyd, and Hans Abrahamsen.