All-American Grooves

Orderly, and out of long habit, my heart continues to beat, writes Louise Glück, whose poems are set by John Harbison in The Seven Ages. These four American works explore the rhythms and grooves that meter our lives. The penetrating rhythms of Ghanaian drumming underlie Michael Gandolfi's Grooved Surfaces. Elliott Carter inspires dialogue in a unique rhythmic language between three pairs of instruments in his Triple Duo. Paying homage, Rand Steiger replicates these couples in Elliott's Instruments.