At the final concert of Other Minds 30 on Sunday afternoon, Charlemagne Palestine, the 79-year-old sovereign of embodied minimalism, graces us with a performance for solo piano that extends his monumental early-1970s work Strumming Music, which he describes as “an approach and technique that is always different and in evolution. It is not a ‘composition’ as such…it is an evolutionary liquid sound continuum process work that I have presented hundredsss [sic] of versions that I have performed over the last 50+ years.” Other Minds is happy to have tracked down Palestine’s preferred piano for his approach—a Bösendofer Model 290 Imperial—that expands the keyboard down a major sixth: the usual 88 keys become 97.
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