(...) Przybylski’s Fall, which is concerned with randomness and the effect of chance in love. The work’s genre is memorably described as being “chance opera”, since throughout the production, the sequence of the music, for orchestra, children’s choir and two singers is specified by the output of a random number generator. At the beginning and end, the music will be the same for every performance, but in the middle section, although the same stopwatch runs, each performance is different, this one-off nature of the music being deliberate and significant. The duties are shared between three conductors for each of three groups of musicians, who are required to blend three different tempi into a single unit. Although the three ensembles are playing independently of each other, they achieved music that was in harmony at all times. (...)

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