Ten Easy Pieces (Bartók) Ten Easy Pieces (Bartók) Ten Easy Pieces, Sz. 39, BB 51 () is a collection of short pieces for piano by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. It was composed in 1908. Though initially it was conceived as "Eleven Piano Recital Pieces", one of the pieces was dropped and used as a bagatelle in Bartók's Fourteen Bagatelles. However, he was required by a contractual obligation with his publisher to write eleven pieces, so he wrote a dedication which is not numbered but serves to complement the set. For this reason, this set and his set of bagatelles are related, both in their
Five Easy Pieces (Milo Rau) matter of "Five Easy Pieces" is the Dutroux affair, but at the same time it is about playing, about manipulation and abuse of power in the world, outside and in theatre." In the Dutch newspaper NRC culture editor Herien Wensink wrote: "You could blame director Milo Rau - public impact is guaranteed - but the execution is subdued and integer, the result powerful and disruptive." Journalist Magali Degrande wrote in the Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad: ""Five Easy Pieces" makes you shiver and smile, a nacre pickaxe that reveals hidden basements and rolls flat over them. Irresponsibly good theater." Yet there