Terry Riley
Olson III
with accordion ensemble, choir and two dancers
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The Musicians of the Italian Accordion Academy

Coro Polifonico Durantino

Simone Spinaci, conductor

Kathleen Delaney, dancer

Roberto Lori, dancer

Choreography by Kathleen Delaney

Performed on the June 6th, 2014 at Teatro Raffaello Sanzio in Urbino (Italy)
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Olson III (1967), an open score for voices and/or instruments. It was commissioned by the Swedish Royal Academy of Music and Sveriges Radio and it was written for young musicians at the community music school in Nacka, a suburb of Stockholm. It is based on a miniature cyclic poem “begin to think about how we are to be to” It was written 3 years after IN C with the intent of using hard core repetition as a form of ritual.
It was a step toward a more primal form using only one note value to deliver it’s raw blatant energy. The premiere caused a scandal and the music director at school resigned in protest against it’s performance shortly after the premiere.

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