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MUSIC REVIEW

Review: Meredith Monk, music for one and two pianos

By Jeffrey Gantz

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  April 07, 2012

Over the past 50 years, Meredith Monk has been a dancer, a composer, an installation artist, and a film and theater director, in the process collecting three Obie Awards and a MacArthur Fellowship. You’d hardly expect a mere piano or two to do her justice - especially since her primary instrument as a composer has always been the human voice. Yet Thursday evening, the New England Conservatory paid tribute to Monk with a program of her complete piano music.

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