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Emerald Suspension Honors Pioneers of Experimental Electronic Music

Market Watch 02 Oct 2017

"Hommage à La Porte" is an original recording made in honor of the composer Pierre Henry who passed away in July 2017 ... The recording includes a particular nod to Henry's influential "Variations pour une porte et un soupir" ("Variations for a door and a sigh").

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John Cage’s Gift to Us

The New York Review of Books 08 Oct 2016

Nor do they have the distilled, luminous, ethereal beauty that we find in pared-down conceptual music such as Pierre Henry’s Variations pour une Porte et un Soupir (1963) or Alvin Lucier’s I Am Sitting in a Room (1969).1 ... He is determined to introduce his music to Charles Chaplin, Henry Ford, and Leopold Stokowski.

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On the Beach, With Jetés

The New York Times 02 Feb 2013

In San Diego the weather is almost always right for a trip to the beach. Not so in New York, yet on Thursday at the David H ... The corps de ballet danced the Pacific ... Mr ... Sharing this “New Combinations” program is “Variations Pour une Porte et un Soupir,” a 1974 Balanchine curio, set to a score of creaks and blips by Pierre Henry.

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New York City Ballet audiences spoiled for choice (Photos)

The Examiner 29 Jan 2013

Glass was “a natural magnet” for the choreographer, says Robbins’ biographer Amanda Vaill ... On the same program is a rarely performed work by Balanchine, ‘Variations Pour une Porte et un Soupir’ - a series of 14 variations, as pas de deux, set to Pierre Henry’s music of the same name, which translates as ‘Variations for a Door and a Sigh' ... D Sch ... .

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Move over, starling

The Observer 24 Oct 2004

Henry Montes dances a rapt solo to its call, his body trilling and resonating, head and arms flung back ... et un soupir is a bizarrely carnal one. She (Maria Kowroski) represents the creaky door in Pierre Henry's musique concrète score; he (Tom Gold) is the not-quite-human sigh.

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Danses Concertantes

The Guardian 21 Oct 2004

The dynamic of the pas de deux so obsessed George Balanchine that in his 1974 duet Variations pour une Porte et un Soupir it took him into some bizarre terrain. The work takes its title from Pierre Henry's electronic soundscape, which Balanchine interpreted as an encounter between an imperious siren (Korowski) and her lover (Tom Gold) ... Box office ... .

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Electro-acoustic arouses, challenges the listener

Jakarta Post 12 Sep 2003

More specifically, this was one of 25 tracks from Pierre Henry's Variations Pour Une Porte Et Un Soupir (Variations for a Door and a Sigh) ... The ping and the wave sound in the Variations Pour Une Porte et Un Soupir were actually recorded from the opening and closing of doors, and from a person breathing.

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100 ways to make music fans swoon

The Age 24 Nov 2001

Pierre Henry's "Variations pour une porte et un soupir", a long-ish essay in the manipulation and combination of taped sounds, was providing the musical impulses for a performance by the dance company of renowned choreographer Maurice Bejart ... Henry had recorded the creak of a door and the breathing of a sleeping person ... No Brahms at all. Amazing ... .

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Many an old tune

Sydney Morning Herald 24 Nov 2001

Pierre Henry's Variations pour une porte et un soupir, a long-ish essay in the manipulation and combination of taped sounds, was providing the musical impulses for a performance by the dance company of the renowned choreographer Maurice Béjart ... Henry had recorded the creak of a door and the breathing of a sleeping person ... No Brahms at all ... .