UK Premiere of Gavin Bryars's The Other Side of the River
Sep. 01, 2019
On September 21, Third Coast Percussion presents the UK Premiere of Gavin Bryars' percussion quartet, The Other Side of the River (2015) at the Barbican. Bryars notes:
"The Other Side of the River is a quiet, reflective piece and was written as part of a theatre work called ‘See You Later’ by Theatre Cryptic (for whom I also wrote The Paper Nautilus). This title is taken from a line by the late Eduardo Galeano: ‘History never really says goodbye. History says, “See you later”.’ The theatre work includes percussion pieces by composers Peter Garland and David T. Little and mine forms a meditative and philosophical epilogue to the whole piece."
Listen to Gavin Bryars' One Last Bar Then Joe Can Sing:
(One Last Bar Then Joe Can Sing/Bryers/Gyula/Ádám/Dániel/Péter/György)
To learn more about Gavin Bryers, visit: schott-music.com
Gavin Bryers
The Other Side of the River (2015)
4perc(I: mar(shared with player II), Almglocken, wdbl; II: mar(shared with player I), templbl, cencerros; III: mar(shared with player IV), Almglocken, wdbl; IV: mar(shared with player III), templbl, cencerros)
22'