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Ben Johnston
Hello all, greetings from the Donaueschingen Festival 2008 where Ben Johnston just won the SWR orchestra prize for the European premiere of his 1966 piece "Quintet for Groups". I am posting an mp3 of the performance for those of you who missed this wonderful and historic live broadcast. Hope that it will be a great beginning for some more of his unfairly neglected music to get played at the highest level... Looking forward to hearing a string quartet cycle! Take care, Marc Sabat
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Quintet for Groups.mp3, 28.6 MB
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Permalink Reply by Tim Rutherford-Johnson on -
Marc Sabat said:Hi! The prize is selected by the orchestra musicians each year from all of the pieces played at the festival.
Thanks Marc. How odd that a 40-year-old piece wins the prize!
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Permalink Reply by David Beardsley on -
Tim Rutherford-Johnson said:
Thanks Marc. How odd that a 40-year-old piece wins the prize!
It's about time!
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