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Tag: 11.19.10
Composer Glenn Branca Goes Maximalist, Again
“[His new] seven-movement composition, Symphony No. 15: Running Through the World Like an Open Razor (Music for Strange Orchestra), doesn’t feature 100 electric guitarists, like [his] 2001 Symphony 13: Hallucination City. But the 12 musicians it does employ have to manage more than 100 separate instruments” – which may not be able to fit in the venue’s stage.