Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Round and Round the Music Soars in Wright’s Spiraling Masterpiece

"Frank Lloyd Wright might never have anticipated this. But the rotunda of his late masterpiece the Guggenheim Museum — which opened in 1959, six months after his death — is an ideal place to perform one of the most mesmerizing and eclectic musical works ever written: “Orbits” for 80 trombones, soprano and organ by the Montreal-born American composer Henry Brant."

For the full story, please see the New York Times.

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