{"id":907,"date":"2009-07-06T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=907"},"modified":"2010-05-22T00:38:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T23:38:46","slug":"and-i-would-have-gotten-away-with-it-too-if-it-wasnt-for-you-meddling-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2009\/07\/and-i-would-have-gotten-away-with-it-too-if-it-wasnt-for-you-meddling-kids.html","title":{"rendered":"And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn&#8217;t for you meddling kids!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three quotes from Harry Halbreich&#8217;s sleeve notes for the album <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Iannis-Xenakis-Claude-Helffer-Arditti-String-Quartet-Iannis-Xenakis-1-Chamber-Music-1955-1990\/release\/973983\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Iannis Xenakis: Chamber Music 1955-1990<\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Kottos<\/span> for cello (1977)<br \/>\nLater, the music returns to extremely high registers, the toccata proceeds with double stops, but after a short recall of the opening sounds, the piece unexpectedly ends by dissolving into gossamer glissandi in the highest register.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Embellie<\/span> for viola (1981)<br \/>\nAnd the work ends in the same manner, slipping away to the extreme high glissando harmonics on the edge of audibility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Tetras<\/span> for string quartet (1983)<br \/>The eighth section, a metrically complex <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">tutti<\/span>, leads to the ninth, which serves as a coda and which, after a display of strength in tremolos, dies away in a surprising manner with pianissimo glissandi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three quotes from Harry Halbreich&#8217;s sleeve notes for the album Iannis Xenakis: Chamber Music 1955-1990: Kottos for cello (1977) Later, the music returns to extremely high registers, the toccata proceeds with double stops, but after a short recall of the opening sounds, the piece unexpectedly ends by dissolving into gossamer glissandi in the highest register. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4345,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/4345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}