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Rhys Chatham prepared this outdoor version of A Crimson Grail—featuring 200 guitarists, 16 bassists, five conductors, and one percussionist—for the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival performance heard here. The BBC calls it "a remarkable, engrossing work" that "achieves an immersive, exultant sense of the sublime." TheNew York Times says: "It might justly be considered 'music to pray to.’”
Rhys Chatham prepared this outdoor version of A Crimson Grail—featuring 200 guitarists, 16 bassists, five conductors, and one percussionist—for the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival performance heard here. The BBC calls it "a remarkable, engrossing work" that "achieves an immersive, exultant sense of the sublime." TheNew York Times says: "It might justly be considered 'music to pray to.’”