Skillful and Imaginative
Music by
Arlene Sierra -
impresses
PATRIC STANDFORD'... an impressive and valuable first volume introduction ...'
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Arlene Sierra was born in Miami in 1970 and after studies at Yale and Ann Arbor, and a growing catalogue of critical successes, she came by way of a Berlin residency to England where she now divides her time between home in London and a lectureship in composition at Cardiff University School of Music. Pieces on this CD are the product of a decade from 2001 and reflect Sierra's interest in both architecture and war games. Her background is one of dance and fine arts, and the rhythmically vigorous elements of her music are therefore not so surprising. It is this constant vitality that maintains interest throughout many of the pieces...
Copyright © 22 November 2012
Patric Standford,
Suffolk UK
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