Only the funding notices reveal that the "loft" mentioned in the title of this disc is located in Chicago -- the booklet text speaks mysteriously of a "major city." The location is relevant, for the program of this fine sampler transcends New York's entrenched uptown/downtown split and its other cliques. All the music here might be described as accessible to a youthful audience, but none is minimalist, none is particularly neo-Romantic, and the one work that uses pop influences does so in quite a subtle way. That work is ...
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Only the funding notices reveal that the "loft" mentioned in the title of this disc is located in Chicago -- the booklet text speaks mysteriously of a "major city." The location is relevant, for the program of this fine sampler transcends New York's entrenched uptown/downtown split and its other cliques. All the music here might be described as accessible to a youthful audience, but none is minimalist, none is particularly neo-Romantic, and the one work that uses pop influences does so in quite a subtle way. That work is Carter Pann's Differences for cello and piano, which is a kind of suite that uses dances of various periods as referents. Two of its movements are based on contemporary pop idioms, displacing them just enough that their motor rhythms disappear but keeping characteristic turns of melody and the like -- sample track 6, "Song," which Pann says "draws its language from the 1970s and early '80s." It abstracts the language of Styx and the like rather than imitating it. Ricardo Lorenz's...
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