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Julian Anderson: ‘The Comedy of Change’ concert performance
‘…Julian Anderson's The Comedy of Change, the wonderfully fluent, lithely inventive score he wrote last year for a Rambert dance piece, providing contrast…’
The Guardian (Andrew Clements), 2 April 2010
‘…Anderson’s programme note told us his piece was inspired by ideas of change, but to my ear the music spoke more of primal innocence, when everything wore bright colours and danced to some primal rhythm.’
The Telegraph (Ivan Hewett), 1 April 2010
‘…The evening’s one non-Castiglioni piece, Julian Anderson’s 2009 work The Comedy of Change, fitted well into this aura of eccentric adventure. Originally a dance score, it evokes the profuse quirkiness of Darwinian evolution in a mix of quasi-Messiaen birdsong, scurrying insect-like figuration and an irresistible array of gorgeous textures. Each of its seven movements seems based on an easily grasped cell — a rising whole-tone scale, say, or instruments moving in parallel — that is progressively enriched. What better metaphor for the evolution of life from the primordial slime to the dazzling profusion of the natural world as we know it?’
The Times (Richard Morrison), 2 April 2010
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