Hello to the list from a habitual lurker! Intrigued by the informative email about this piece, I braved the torrential rain yesterday and went to hear the performance in the Kennedy center. A computer screen displayed the Go game on center stage with the two pianists positioned left and right of it. I must say that I like the piece a lot although it was not at all what I expected it to be. Both pianists were continuously active playing often diatonic-sounding ostinati patterns, the overall effect being rather pleasing and hypnotic, similar to some of Keith Jarrett's solo improvisations. The thing that puzzles me is that I would have expected that if the moves of the game are really set one-to-one to music (see excerpt from original email below), it should have sounded more 'aleatoric', and more like a 'dialogue' between the players, than it actually did to me. I wonder if someone knows this piece better and can tell me how the 'setting' of moves to music was actually achieved. ...a game of Go, for two pianos, was written in 1987 and premiered at the 3rd U.S. Go Congress in the Summer of that year. It was also featured on NPR's "All Things Considered" in March of 1988. The piece is based on game six of a famous thirty-game match of the ancient Japanese board game Go, played between Shusaku and Yuzo in 1853. Each move of the game is "set" to music, one of the player's moves being represented by one piano, and his opponent's played by the second piano ... In any case thanks for pointing me to this performance, kind regards, Andreas Meyer Lindenberg