Just became aware that Sarah Cahill’s recording of my piece War Is Just a Racket is up at YouTube with John Sanborn’s video for it, which I hadn’t seen since the premiere in 2009.
Kyle Gann on music after the fact
Kyle Gann on music after the fact
by Kyle Gann
Just became aware that Sarah Cahill’s recording of my piece War Is Just a Racket is up at YouTube with John Sanborn’s video for it, which I hadn’t seen since the premiere in 2009.
What an amazing piece, and the video is too. Congratulations.
Everything about War Is Just A Racket is so well done. The fit of music to that remarkable text (how did you find it?) is unerring. Sarah’s performance is of course spot on, including absolute clarity in speaking the text, and the video provides a wonderful new dimension. I see that the video isn’t listed, so I won’t share it around, but I hope it does become available publicly at some point. (This whole CD was an inspired creation that I’m pleased to own.)
KG replies: Thanks, Sue. Frequent commenter Brian McLaren sent me the Smedley Butler text, for which I’m grateful to him.