- General information
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Composition date:
1975
- Duration: 20 mn
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
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Composition date:
1975
- Type
- Instrumental ensemble music [Instrumental ensemble music]
Premiere information
Observations
Enregistrement : Bang on a Can, cd Cantaloupe CA21012.
Program note
Workers Union was originally written for the orchestra De Volharding (Perseverance), in which I myself figured as a pianist at that time.
This piece is a combination of individual freedom and severe discipline: its rhythm is exactly fixed; the pitch, on the other hand, is indicated only approximately, on a single-lined stave.
It is difficult to play in an ensemble and to remain in step, sort of thing like organising and carrying on political action.
Louis Andriessen, 1990.
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