Cast
Robert AshleyJohn CagePhilip GlassJack Kripl (Intereviewee)Jill Kroesen ((segment "Ashley"))Meredith MonkKurt Munkacsi (Interviewee)Dora Ohrenstein (Interviewee)Michael Riesman (Interviewee)'Blue' Gene Tyranny (The World's Greatest Piano Player (segment "Ashley"))David Van Tieghem (The Captain of the Football Team (segment "Ashley"))
Director
Peter Greenaway
Synopsis
This is a 4-part documentary that follows four different contemporary composers performing/creating/building their shows. Peter Greenaway leads us, with a great sense of balance between the performances and the interviews, through the creative process of 4 very different composers in style (sound and noise, repetition and discipline, vocal experimentation, poetry and musical freedom) who are all framed under the same musical genre - contemporary music. A Great way to get introduced to this music and to understand how much of it is intellectual or playful.
