MSHJ: Faith and Deeds in The White Island
Martin Brody · Perspectives of New Music · 1991
W TE ARE ACCUSTOMED TO HONORING Martino's music by pointing to its structural depth-admiring its demonstration of twelve-tone set transformations and concomitant partitioning and embedding procedures that emulate the richness and expressive suggestiveness of tonal constructions. It may seem that we know how to approach his music, even if our appreciation of its sonorous beauty, its originality and delicacy, is mute by comparison to the clarity and articulation of our technology for structural abstraction.