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David Toub suggests Morton Feldman's For Philip Guston as driving music and comments:
I've been in love with this piece for some time now, but it struck me yesterday that Feldman was able to take a four-note chromatic scale and make it sound heavenly.
He also pans a Feldman organ piece I haven't heard, Principal Sound (emusic).
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Thanks! Actually, I hope I didn't pan Principal Sound, but merely indicated that I haven't warmed up to it yet. The last part of it is pretty decent, but as a whole, it just isn't as compelling for me as everything else he wrote in his last decade of life. When I first heard someone write about PS on the web about a year ago, it was in disappointed terms, so that might have biased me.
Posted by: david toub | December 16, 2006 at 04:45 AM