{"id":744,"date":"2012-08-07T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/08\/true-eclecticism-with-wild-up.html"},"modified":"2012-08-07T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T19:06:00","slug":"true-eclecticism-with-wild-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/08\/true-eclecticism-with-wild-up.html","title":{"rendered":"True Eclecticism with Wild Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

ONE of the oddest and most beautiful concerts I’ve been to this year took place at the Hammer Museum a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Here’s a bit of what was on offer as the museum and the musician’s collective wild Up (they don’t cap the “w”) came together:<\/p>\n

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The fruit of this union was a July concert that began with a conductor in a cowboy hat, a menacing toreador, the sound of tumbleweed being rolled through the museum’s courtyard, and the twangy strains of Ennio Morricone’s music for Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns.<\/i><\/div>\n
By the end of the afternoon, the group had launched ping-pong balls into the air in a tribute to minimalist composer LaMonte Young, and offered a meditative, early-music version of Katy Perry’s “California Gurls,” accompanied, as it happened, by helicopter in a particularly delicate passage. This was not the only place where the city seemed to be conflicting with \u2013 or filling out \u2013 the group’s music: What police sirens smashed through a song by indie-rock heroes Magnetic Fields, and what sounded like a fire truck roared through the climax of a gnarly early Schoenberg piece.<\/i><\/div>\n

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HERE<\/a> is my story on the group, which has a concert at Schoenberg Hall this Saturday and a lot of stuff, at the Hammer and elsewhere, through December. I speak to Hammer curator Elizabeth Cline and the group’s conductor, Christopher Rountree.<\/p>\n

Very much looking forward from more from these guys…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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