50 Years of Minimalism – review

Kings Place, LondonDepending on where you attach the label of the first minimalist piece – this compendious first programme in the Kings Place series placed it on Terry Riley's tape piece Mescaline Mix (1961), which is equally an example of musique concrète – musical minimalism has been around for five decades now, infiltrating all genres from opera to symphony to rock, as well as garnering dozens of practitioners and countless admirers. The overall thesis – that minimalism represented th...

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