Huddersfield is off
mainThe Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival has scrapped its 10-day November jamboree, it announced this morning.
Instead, it will put on a three-day online event.
The intended composer-in-residence Chaya Czernowin has been invited back for 2021.
Given that this year is the centenary of Bruno Maderna, I’d really hoped that some of his works would be programmed at , say, Proms or Huddersfield.
It is surprising that there can exist a true longing for Maderna’s works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x92koS1fa4&list=PL3p63wQyqCsCQJR_9tuwggjPv1oyVqreA&index=7
It sounds like music anxiously being infected by sound art.
The early, still innocent music is quite different:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u34QWmBvJds&index=9&list=PL3p63wQyqCsCQJR_9tuwggjPv1oyVqreA&t=0s&app=desktop
Had he lived at the end of the 19th century, he had written a kind of Rachmaninoff.