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This isn't your grandad's "classical" music. Pianist Cristina Valdes is committed to playing the weird stuff--the influential, avant garde and difficult composers of the 20th and 21st century. For example: Valdes' program includes works by Helmut Lachenmann, explorer of anti-conventional instrumental techniques and Giacinto Scelsi--who challenged the status quo by composing works featuring only one pitch. "Quattro Pezzi su una nota sola" employs various instruments of differing timbers and microtonal shifts to create a highly textured, anticipation-building piece, which leaves the listener yearning for a resolution that never comes. It's sure to be a challenging program. But whoever said art is supposed to be easy?
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