The motivic development winds down. The harmony modulates into the home key. The final chord rings out. The conductor’s hands are poised at shoulder height, holding the room. The audience sits in hushed silence. And sits. And sits and sits and sits and sits and sits.
… has been an editor at VAN since 2015. He’s the author of The Life and Music of Gérard Grisey: Delirium and Form (Boydell & Brewer), and his journalism has appeared in The Baffler, the New York... More by Jeffrey Arlo Brown
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