• General information
  • Composition date : 1975
    
  • Duration : 20 mn
  • Editor : Boosey & Hawkes

• Type
  • Musique instrumentale d'ensemble [Musique instrumentale d'ensemble]

Creation information

Observations

Enregistrement : Bang on a Can, cd Cantaloupe CA21012.

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.