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==Concepts==
Brubaker's work uses and combines Western classical music with postmodern artistic, literary, theatrical, and philosophical ideas.<ref>Da Costa, Damian, [http://www.observer.com/2009/05/the-postpostmodern-pianist/ "The Post-postmodern Pianist"], ''The New York Observer'', May 5, 2009</ref><ref>Dyer, Richard, [http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2004/10/03/new_england_conservatory_pianist_makes_a_minimalist_effort?pg=full "New England Conservatory pianist makes a minimalist effort"], ''Boston Globe'', October 3, 2004</ref> He is associated with the recent revitalization of classical music (sometimes termed "alternative classical").<ref>Rinaldi, Ray Mark, [http://www.denverpost.com/music/ci_22388296/bruce-brubaker-performs-nico-mulys-drones-amp-piano/ "Alt-classical" music: Pianist Bruce Brubaker performs Nico Muhly's 'Drones & Piano' at DU's Newman Center"], ''The Denver Post'', January 18, 2013</ref> He has created and performed multidisciplinary projects at the [[:fr:Festival de La Roque-d'Anthéron|International Piano Festival La Roque d'Anthéron]],<ref>Lamare, Didier, [http://demi-cadratin.fr/bruce-brubaker-glass-piano-2/ "Bruce Brubaker, Glass Piano"], "demi-cadratin", August 7, 2015</ref> the [[Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston]],<ref>Eichler, Jeremy, "Classical picks", ''Boston Globe'', February 2, 2007, p. D5</ref> Princeton's [[Institute for Advanced Study]],<ref>[http://www.ias.edu/special/air/music/0405 program listings, 2004-2005] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418142733/http://www.ias.edu/special/air/music/0405 |date=April 18, 2012 }}, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton</ref> the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival,<ref>[http://www.thegilmore.org/commissions/ "Commissions"], Irving S. Gilmore Keyboard Festival</ref> [[Columbia University]],<ref>Griffiths, Paul, [https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/24/arts/music-review-one-minimalist-color-after-another.html "Music Review: One Minimalist Color After Another"], ''The New York Times'', October 24, 1998</ref> and at the [[Juilliard School]]. With over 70 million plays on Spotify, he reaches a large audience online. He is praised as a performer of music by [[Philip Glass]];<ref name="sfgate">Kosman, Joshua, [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/30/PKK9RPC2A.DTL "CD Reviews: Bruce Brubaker"], ''San Francisco Chronicle'', September 2, 2007</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bachtrack.com/critique-bruce-brubaker-glass-comedie-clermont-scene-nationale-fevrier-2017|title=Glass dans le miroir de Brubaker|website=bachtrack.com|language=en-GB|access-date=2017-11-20}}</ref> ''The New York Times'' wrote: "Few pianists approach Philip Glass's music with the level of devotion and insight that Bruce Brubaker brings to it, precisely the reason he gets so much expressivity out of it."<ref>Smith, Steve, [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/arts/music/07brub.html "Modern Pieces, Classically Performed"], ''The New York Times'', June 7, 2008</ref> Brubaker has published articles about music and semiotics,<ref>Brubaker, Bruce, [http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100284280 "Time is Time: Temporal Signification in Music"], in ''Unfolding Time: Studies in Temporality in Twentieth-Century Music'', Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2009, {{ISBN|9789058677358}}</ref> and performance as research.<ref>[http://www.djmt.nl/vol12/nr01/art07 abstract of Brubaker Bruce, "Questions Not Answers: The Performer as Researcher"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140519061408/http://www.djmt.nl/vol12/nr01/art07 |date=May 19, 2014 }}, ''Dutch Journal of Music Theory (Tijdschrift voor Muziektheorie)'', XII:1, 2007</ref> Brubaker advocates the treatment of written music as "text"—he has sometimes performed and recorded new music without the direct input of the composer.<ref>Brubaker, Bruce, [http://www.artsjournal.com/pianomorphosis/2011/11/dont-ask.html "Don't Ask"], ArtsJournal.com, November 1, 2011</ref> Brubaker has said: "The piano is a tool that can be used in different ways. Classical music can be taken as material for new art."<ref>Theiner, Manny, [http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/pittsburgh/pianist-bruce-brubaker-ranges-from-minimalism-to-chopin/Content?oid=1342714 "Under the Wire: Pianist Bruce Brubaker ranges from minimalism to Chopin"], ''Pittsburgh City Paper'', October 22, 2009</ref> Brubaker has argued that technology is returning music to a pre-composer condition, and equalizing or blurring the roles of listener, performer, and composer. In a conversation with Philip Glass in Princeton, Brubaker referred to "the demise of the composer." Brubaker said: "Now, it's becoming a little less clear who creates a work, who plays the work, and who listens to the work. Those roles used to seem to be so clear – you know, Beethoven wrote it, Brendel played it, and the audience at Carnegie heard it. But I don't think that quite works anymore."<ref>[http://www.ias.edu/special/air/words/philip-glass-3 "Hearing and Seeing: Philip Glass speaks with Bruce Brubaker and Jon Magnussen"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120511114029/http://www.ias.edu/special/air/words/philip-glass-3 |date=May 11, 2012 }}, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton</ref>
 
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