Milano Musica was born to make known the extremely rich repertoire of twentieth-century music, which is usually the most neglected by musical life. It is at the center of a very articulated programming, which does not exclude masterpieces of the past, but ...
Feldman writes: “I think there are three things that work with me: my ears, my mind and my fingers. One of the reasons I work at the piano is that it slows me down and I can hear the time element much better, the acoustic reality. I am inside the acoustic reality: for me there is no such thing as compositional reality”. With these words, Feldman positions himself as the precursor to a way of composing in polemical contrast with the great European tradition.
The venue was not excellent (small, with few seats, with a half-creaky stage, traffic caused by the Milan match and ...let's not even go there) and when you call a vocal group known worldwide, with a composer famous worldwide, one can expect a larger influx of people and perhaps even more demanding than average.