DREYBLATT AND THE ORCHESTRA OF EXCITED STRINGS, ARNOLD - Live at Federal Hall National Memorial, 1981

Arnold Dreyblatt is one of the most engaging of the second generation of New York minimalists. During a three decade career he has developed a distinctive -- and delightfully accessible -- approach to composition and performance. Employing modified and invented instruments and a unique tuning system, his music is a vigorously rhythmic and richly textured romp through the natural overtone series. This live CD celebrates the 25th anniversary of Dreyblatts historic concert at Federal Hall in New York (where George Washington was inaugurated as President). Utilizing the natural resonances of the structures spectacular dome, Dreyblatt and his Orchestra of Excited Strings present seven outstanding pieces from the Nodal Excitation series for just-intoned double basses, piano, hurdy gurdy and pipe organ, emphasizing dynamics and sonorities to stunning acoustical effect. - Table Of The Elements.