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To the American Festival of Microtonal Music Web Site and its PITCH label
In
their Ivesian context, the microtones link the natural past with the spiritual,
if not the commercial future. To chalk up the coincidence as another
coup for the Great Anticipator might seem trivial, but it symbolizes in
its way a more significant anticipation. Ives's omnivorous Universe,
at least as mediated by Mr. Reinhard, foreshadows today's musical scene
in all its polymorphous perversity, its rejection of stingy theorizing and
its reopening to universal possibility.
Richard Taruskin THE NEW YORK TIMES 6/2/96
Classical
composers began to explore spaces between and among tones of the Western
scale early in this century. Saturday night, in the second of
four concerts in the MicroFest Autumn series at New York University,
the tenuous barrier between microtonal techniques and the parallel
dialects of blues and jazz was broken.
Alex Ross THE NEW YORK TIMES 10/13/92
The tone-deft:
the musicians under Johnny Reinhard's direction are virtuoso players so
that Julian Carrillo's trailblazing Preludio a Cristobal sounded
hauntingly beautiful. So did Bruno Bartolozzi's Cantilena,
Mayumi Reinhard's Peach, Harry Partch's striking Dark Brother,
Lou Harrison's At the Tomb of Charles Ives and the Three Quarter-tone
Pieces by Ives himself. The 15-odd players proved to be exemplary
musicians throughout.
Bill Zakariasen NEW YORK DAILY NEWS 9/22/92
MicroFest
II: Sorry, Schönberg, in the 21st century they're not going to have
just 12 pitches anymore. If you want an early take on music's future,
hie thee to Johnny Reinhard's eclectic festival. No longer unusual
in rock, computer music, and improvisation, alternative tunings may unite
today's largest underground musical movement. At its center is Johnny
Reinhard. Reinhard, revolutionizing music on a shoestring...music
has exploded so far outward in this century that there's no place left
to go except back in, and Reinhard's directing the implosion. Administratively,
he's got the country's most potentially ear-opening festival in place.
Kyle Gann THE VILLAGE VOICE 5/6/89
It was indeed
an education to move from a Sunday afternoon concert from a Renaissance
and the Baroque directly into the jaws of the American Festival of
Microtonal Music...The other pleasures were provided by Harry Parth,
an American who has merged craft and eccentricity as perhaps no other. His Two
Studies on Ancient Greek Scales, played here by Mr. Reinhard and
Mr. Catler, occupied a beautifully colored, static, almost incantatory
world. Then there were Mr. Reinhard's recitations - sometimes spoken,
sometimes intoned - and Kenneth Edward's smoothly played viola.
Bernard Holland THE NEW YORK TIMES 11/4/86
And at the
mystical end, an almost full Alice Tully Hall rose at once for a standing
ovation: a fitting tribute, not necessarily for this performance, but
for Reinhard's relentless sleuth work on Ives's sketches and his 14 years
of dedication in providing New York's most finely tuned musical offerings.
Kyle Gann THE VILLAGE VOICE 6/25/96
To Johnny Reinhard's home page (all links)
To Raven CD page
To Johnny's interview (1999)
A new interview (2005) with Johnny Reinhard, about the Universe Symphony
To Charles Ives' page at the Stereo Society
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