Theatre of Voices stupefies with Stockhausen’s Stimmung

By Jacob Slattery, 24 February 2015

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“a unison B flat, the fundamental core of the piece, glittered with a kaleidoscope of overtones”

Reviewed at Carnegie Hall: Zankel, New York City on 21 February 2015

Stockhausen, Stimmung

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Jacob Slattery

Jacob is a musician and raconteur based out of New York City. As a writer, he operates an online arts and culture blog with the goal of providing momentum for community-based arts projects in NYC. As an oboist, Jacob has performed internationally with orchestras from Vienna to Seoul. Born and raised in the lake-ridden, gopher empire of Minnesota, Jacob received a dual-degree in Music Performance and Marketing from Augsburg College in Minneapolis. His blog can be found here.

Variations on an overtone series: Theatre of Voices stupefies with Stockhausen’s Stimmung