Oddly enough, there was a time in Anders Hillborg life when his music was considered unplayable. He laughs at the memory of the reaction from the commissioner of his choral piece, muo:aa:yiy::oum, the touring organisation Rikskonserter: “I received a letter which stated that they would never commission another piece from me, since my music was unplayable,” he remembers. Today the piece is a standard with a cappella choirs, allowing them to show off a rhythmically complex spectrum of overtone series unadorned with words. “I had originally set a text by e.e. cummings to music - everyone was doing it at the time!” he says ironically. “But the text killed the music and vice versa… so I just got rid of the words.” youtube/watch?v=pe_YElIoqm0 bachtrack/fr_FR/interview-anders-hillborg-stockholm-composers-festival
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:54:44 +0000