Peters, Steve - Occasional Music
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POL 0703
"All of this music was either made for various collaborative projects, or eventually found its way into them. None of it is much like the work I usually do on my own, but this is why I enjoy working on assignment: externally imposed parameters lead to unexpected results."
"..stunningly gorgeous. This is music that emphatically does not attempt seduction; it is reticent, modest, and requires attentiveness. For that reason alone, it is truly beautiful... Peters’ music has in abundance what I miss in so much new American music: strong commitment to an aesthetic goal, and adherence to that goal without compromise." – Evan Johnson, Sequenza21/
"The music is unadorned and plain-spoken, with no artifice whatsoever." – Raymond Tuttle, Classical Net
"Peters’s approach to melody and harmony...offers the striking purity of renaissance polyphony; a rigorous attention to the effects of moving and simultaneous intervals. Indeed, behind the West Coast spaciousness of this work, there seems to lurk the mind of a composer as scientific and intellectual in approach as American progenitor Charles Ives." – Kevin Macneil Brown, Dusted
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