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July 03, 2009
Recording studios rattled by violent incidents Recording studios ... - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Recording studios rattled by violent incidents Recording studios ... Atlanta Journal Constitution Some say petty criminals know where artists record their music, making entertainers a tempting target during tough economic times. ... |
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Arditti quartet in concert - Malta Independent Online
Arditti quartet in concert Malta Independent Online The Arditti Quartet enjoys a worldwide reputation for their spirited and technically refined interpretations of contemporary and earlier 20th century music. ... |
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Kraftwerk at the Manchester Velodrome, review - Telegraph.co.uk
![]() Telegraph.co.uk | Kraftwerk at the Manchester Velodrome, review Telegraph.co.uk Visually, it was also the perfect setting for new performances from two of music's most pioneering acts. New York composer Steve Reich and German electronic ... |
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Kraftwerk ride high - BBC 6 Music
![]() BBC 6 Music | Kraftwerk ride high BBC 6 Music It was down to the American minimalist composer Steve Reich to open the show with the premier of his new work 2x5. Reich might be associated with more ... |
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Kraftwerk put festival on track - Manchester Evening News
Kraftwerk put festival on track Manchester Evening News The concert, where fans were given 3D glasses on entry, also saw composer Steve Reich debut his latest work 2x5 with help from New York's Bang on a Can ... |
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Three Stars: Cannot Be Stopped - DCist.com
![]() DCist.com | Three Stars: Cannot Be Stopped DCist.com The full, long title is Electronic Music and Recording Media. So this is a school where various famous people like Steve Reich have gone. ... |
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A performing life without borders - Boston Globe
![]() Boston Globe | A performing life without borders Boston Globe True, his technique is unimpeachable, and he certainly plays his share of Russian music. But his interests cut across solo, chamber, and concerto works, ... |
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Recording studios rattled by violent incidents - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Recording studios rattled by violent incidents Atlanta Journal Constitution Some say petty criminals know where artists record their music, making entertainers a tempting target during tough economic times. ... |
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The Philadelphia Inquirer David Patrick Stearns Column: Paired to ... - California Chronicle
The Philadelphia Inquirer David Patrick Stearns Column: Paired to ... California Chronicle Beyond knowing how to stay out of each other's way, they fused synergistically in Lutoslawski's Variations on a Theme by Paganini with a level of energy and ... |
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Grandma, What Big Ears You Have
Some time ago, in a discussion of some musical work which gives general satisfaction, wherein someone contemned the piece, I replied:The fault is not in the piece; your listening gear needs to be recalibrated.Today, in discussing Le sacre du printemps, I had occasion to reiterate this remark. Another neighbor asks:
How far do you go with it? Do we always need to say it’s the listener’s fault if he/she doesn’t like something?That is a good question. In general, I am apt to say “yes.” (It will be more diplomatic if we find some term other than “fault” to lay at the listener’s feet, but take the point.)
For one thing: I hardly know of any case of a composer writing anything to the end that he himself should not like it.
—Let’s shed the negatives: In 99.99% of the cases, one important component in the composition process is pleasure that the composer himself takes in the sound. (I know that that is the case with 100% of the pieces I myself write.) In the case of Le sacre, it is obvious not only that the composer himself took pleasure in the work, but that audiences for nearly a century have taken pleasure in it, too.
For another: It can only be the slenderest fraction of music written, where it is true both that the composer takes pleasure in the music, and inversely true that no one else who hears the music takes any pleasure in it. I know of no such piece.
For a third: The regularity of noise about how this or that new fashion of music is “the end of music” notwithstanding, historically the composer has practically always been vindicated. History teaches us that, in a statistically overwhelming number of instances, when uncomprehending contemporary audiences have pronounced this or that piece “beyond the pale,” a later epoch has, in fact, relocated the pale.
Corollary to the third thing: A listener’s displeasure is such a tender thing; if the listener has not learned (let us borrow a Zappa expression) to “wear the big ears” (and it is a mode of musical thinking which many of us labor, in some degree, to adopt), he doesn’t like the piece because it doesn’t sound like his favorite piece or composer, or because it doesn’t sound like much other music which he likes, or because he had a row with his supervisor earlier that day, or because Michael Jackson died.
Further corollary to the third thing: A listener’s experience of music changes over time. Any listener’s immediate dislike of a piece means nothing about the artistic quality of the music.
All that said: the listener retains complete freedom to like or dislike whatever music it please him, for whatever bundle of reasons it please him. It will be greater honesty (especially in cases where, clearly, a “critical mass” of listeners have endorsed a given piece of music) for the listener to acknowledge his dislike simply for the dislike which it is (and, possibly, a dislike which may after prove impermanent), rather than taking his dislike as necessarily mapping onto aesthetic “absolutes,” somehow indicating that the piece of music under advisement is “rubbish,” just because he says so.
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Classical Music/Opera Listings - New York Times
![]() New York Times | Classical Music/Opera Listings New York Times Movements and short single pieces by Bach, Bartok, Beethoven, Brahms and Ligeti alternate in an intriguing succession. The program will end with a complete ... |
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Reboot
It's time for the annual notation reboot. In addition to setting up new template files for the new edition of Finale, my primary engraving software, I've been doing practice runs to keep up some facility with the other notation software on my computer. In addition to Finale, I have Lilypond, Sibelius, Turandot, Graphire Music Studio, and have recently downloaded Berlioz (a commerical program now turned into freeware) and MuseScore (free and open sourced) to try. Each product has useful features and a distinct workflow and I find that it's useful to have several approaches available to solving the same problem. The new Finale (2010) doesn't have any dramatic changes, but does have two features that were worth the upgrade: an easier way of working with percussion and more possibilities for the import and export of graphics.
But don't get the impression that I'm spending all my composing time with my computer: a fresh box of black uni-ball micros has arrived, I've ultra-sounded my Rapidographs and calligraphy pens completely clean, and have even purchased a fresh Noligraph, my favorite five-lined staff writer. I'm now ready to compose with or without electricity and on the backs of envelopes or cocktail napkins should inspiration hit. There are no more excuses: time to write.
Originally from Renewable Music, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Jul 3, 2009 at 02:10 AM | Comments (0)
Those Jangling High C's on the Piano
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July 02, 2009
The In Crowd
Mr. Glass agrees that there is a growing willingness to fund new music. "...The real thing about commissions is to be in a cycle of demand and supply."Do you think Frederic Jameson would be a good ice-breaker with the hedge-fund managers?
Mr. Asia advises young composers to get in the habit of talking to people outside the music world -- to lawyers, doctors and hedge-fund managers -- to foster a culture of patronage.
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Bourland choral music: Dickinson Madrigals Bk2 (1983)
This set was commissioned by Kenneth Seitz and the Cambridge Chorale and stylistically picks up where Book 1 left off. Most of the “madrigals” are in ABA or ABCA, with a repeat of the opening material. All my roots show in this one. As I was about to move to LA to take a new post at UCLA, it was my last appearance as a Composer in Red Sneaker, after which, they hoisted my sneakers to the rafters in Sanders Theater.
Download audio file (Dickinson_Madrigals_Book2.mp3)
Dickinson Madrigals, Book 2 (1983)
k I was enchanted
2. A solemn thing
3. Cocoon
4. Wild Nights!
5. The Robin
Music: Roger Bourland
Poetry: Emily Dickinson
Published by ECS Publishing, Boston
Kenneth Seitz conducts the Cambridge Chorale (1983)
RB @ 1918 Beacon St Boston
Originally posted by Roger Bourland from rogerbourland.com, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Jul 2, 2009 at 11:05 PM | Comments (0)
Bourland choral music: Dickinson Madrigals, Bk1 (1980)
In Boston in 1980, six very different twenty-something-aged composers got together and formed a composer collective called THE COMPOSERS IN RED SNEAKERS. I was one of those composers, and, after Christopher Stowens magical and humorous electro-acoustic introduction, the lights went up and a chamber women’s choir stood there and sang my Dickinson Madrigals, Book 1 (1980). My Harvard classmate, Tim Mukherjee did a good job pulling the piece together, and the women, despite a few wrong notes here and there, did a great job on a tricky piece. The opening was a little shaky because they had just heard Chris’s intro, the lights came on, had to find their pitch, get the piece going, and try to not be nervous.
It was around this time that I was working part-time for Randall Thompson. He introduced me to the Sacred Harp singing tradition and the wonders of choral music. I composed a set of hymns under him.
This work shows Thompson’s influence, but also David Crosby’s. In fact, I played this piece for David and said it had a lot of him in it. He didn’t hear it. This piece caught the attention of EC Schirmer who later offered me an exclusive contract.
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Dickinson Madrigals, Book 1 (1980)
oon tightens
2. Luna
3. I showed her sights
4. Of their peculiar light
5. Answer July
Music: Roger Bourland
Poetry: Emily Dickinson
Published by ECS Publishing, Boston
Tim Mukherjee conducting the Red Sneakers Women’s Chorus

Originally posted by Roger Bourland from rogerbourland.com, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Jul 2, 2009 at 11:05 PM | Comments (0)
Candlelight Concerts in Columbia to offer Beethoven quartet cycle, Emma Kirkby and more
The 37th season of Candlelight Concerts, the fine chamber series in Columbia, will include the start of a two-year survey of the complete Beethoven string quartets. Six ensembles, American and European, will participate in the cycle, beginning the the Illinois-based Pacifica Quartet Jan. 23. The Ebene Quartet from France (Feb. 6) and Artemis Quartet from Germany (Feb. 27) will also be part of the series during the 2009-2010 portion of the Beethoven series.
Starting off the Candlelight lineup is soprano Emma Kirkby, the much acclaimed specialist in early music, who will perform a 17th century program with lutenist Jakob Lindberg on Oct. 24. The Concertante Sextet will play Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht and Brahms' G major Sextet, along with John Novacek's Three Rags, on Nov. 21. Cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan will perform works by Beethoven, Schumann, Shostakovich and others on March 13.
And, providing the most concentrated dose of contemporary music on the series, the ...
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Harlem After MJ

The entrepreneurial spirit of 125th Street was intensified by the death of Michael Jackson. This 8' recording captures the sounds of all the different characters who came out to make a quick buck.
It begins with a street preacher (0-45') who was standing at the corner of 125th & Frederick Douglass Boulevard. The Apollo's side of the block was choked with vendors. The guy blaring "Off The Wall" (1:48-2:20) was selling CD-R's of MJ's music. You can also hear the hawking of t-shirts, hats and posters. In front of the Apollo, a group of people were shouting inside the theater for the management to turn up the music (3:23-3:40).
Things got more novel after crossing the street. There was a vendor selling Spider-Man and Hannah Montana "workbooks, pop-ups and baby books" (6:23-6:32). The street preacher returns briefly before the recording comes across several 3-card monte games (7:30-end).
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Zdzisław Piernik, tuba
Strona A / Side A1. Krzysztof Penderecki -Capriccio per tuba/ Scherzo a la Polacca 4'40"
2. Marian Borkowski -Vox per uno strumento ad ottone 5'40"
3. Andrzei Krzanowski-Sonata na tube solo /Sonata for Solo Tuba 14'05"
Strona B / Side B
1. Andrzej Dobrowolski -Muzyka na tube solo / Music for Solo Tuba 12'05"
2. Witold Szalonek-Piernikiana per tuba sola 12'05"
Zdzisław Piernik, born in Torun in 1942, is the first and so far the only Polish virtuoso tuba-player. The tuba is the biggest and at the same time the least mobile of the brass instruments. While the most conspicuous in the orchestra, it has been until recently, from the musical point of view, one of the most concealed instruments and only rarely made use of. It was only in the 19th century that Richard Wagner and Anton Bruckner assigned a more significant role to the tuba (or strictly speaking to it Wagnerian variety), then in the second half of the 20th century it emancipated itself to become a solo instrument. In Poland this emancipation has been mainly due to Zdzisław Piemik who, after having completed his studies at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw under Juliusz Pietrachowicz and having won a prize at the National Festival of Young Musicians in Gdansk in 1970, embarked on a career of tubist-soloist. Before long he hat a string of successes both at home and abroad, among them at festivals and summer courses at Bayreuth, Witten, Darmstadt, Bourges, Stockholm, and Los Angeles. He has been giving concerts in the United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, France, Holland, Japan, Mexico, FRG, and the United States. He also appeared many times at the festival of contemporary music the "Warsaw Autumn" at which he would. mostly perform pieces written especially for him. The list of composers who have dedicated their works to Zdzislaw Piernik amounts to a dozen: Benno Amman, Zbigniew Bargielski, Andrzej Bieian, Marian Borkowski, Andrzej Dobrowolski, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Wojciech Kilar, Krzysztof Knittel, Andrzej Krzanawski, Krzysztof Penderecki, Boguslaw Schaeffer, ELibieta Sikora, Witold Szalonek. Five of such pieces havebeen recorded on this disc.
Capriccio per tuba by Krzysztof Penderecki was written in 1980 and was performed for the first time the same year at the "Warsaw Autumn". Although it is subtitled "scherzo alla polacca" Zdzisław Piernik does not play it at the tempo of a polonaise. He probably does not do so because the composition played at a slower tempo would lose its jocular character suggested by the subtitle. The Capriccio has been written in the traditional idiom apart from a sole fragment in which Penderecki uses the highest and the lowest of the sounds that can be extracted from the tuba. This is a short, one-movement piece easy to listen to but by no means easy for the performing tuba-player.
Vox -per uno strumento ad attone (which means: "for a brass instrument") by Marian Borkowski, written in 1977, is a composition designed for any brass wind instrument. Its graphical score, written not on note paper but the graph one, makes it possible to play it at any register. Also the pitch of particular sounds has not been indicated by the composer, so that soloist is free to choose it. The varying texture of Marian Borkowski's piece, in which the composer makes use of all possible kinds of sound and articulation (staccato, legato, tremolando, asciUando, moUo vibrato, fruUato, etc.) enables the soloists to demonstrate their skill.
The Sonata for tuba solo by Andrzej Krzanowski was written in 1978. Contrary to its title, suggesting a four-movement form, this is a one-movement piece made up of two contrasting themes, the very quick and very slow one, both subjected to only slight transformations. Like Penderecki in the aforementioned composition, Andrzej Krzanawski too sticks in his Sonata for tuba solo to the traditional idiom.. Because of this and the very simple structure of the themes it a piece very easy to listen to and at the same time very attractive owing to two qualities it combines, the virtuoso one (first theme) and the expressive one (the lyrical second theme).
The Music for tuba solo by Andrzej Dobrowolski was written in 1973. The composition consists of three movements, of which the outer ones are played on the "classical" bass tuba and the middle movement on the prepared tuba. By contrast to Penderecki and Krzanawski, the idiom Andrzej Dobrowolski uses in his piece is completely modern. He tries to achieve by means of it all sorts of sound effects, such as snoring, growling, whistling, twittering, squealing, sometimes so high-pitched that one can hardly believe they have been extracted from a bass instrument of this sort.
The Piernikiana by Witold Szalonek, written in 1977, suggests its dedication in the very title. Szalonek specjalizes in the search for new sound possibilities of wind instruments, both wood and brass. J!:ach piece he writes for them inspires him with new ideas and these in turn require of the performer to study thoroughly all the c,omposer's explanations and signs. Moreover, having been given a high degree of freedOm in the interpretation of the piece the soloist becomes co-responsible for the ultimate artistic effect. Among the nu.merous problems to be solved, while playing this extremely complicated composition, there is also the composer's wish for the tubist, at one place, to sing on his instrument... Piernikiana is the most difficult piece among those recorded on this disc and can therefore give a very good idea of the extraordinary range of virtuosity Zdzislaw Piemik has at his command. -- Tadeusz Kaczynski
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Pacifica Quartet brings its vast repertory to new series at Acorn - St. Joseph Herald Palladium (subscription)
Pacifica Quartet brings its vast repertory to new series at Acorn St. Joseph Herald Palladium (subscription) ... the Pacifica Quartet is coming off its 2009 Grammy Award win for Best Chamber Music Performance for the recording "Elliott Carter's String Quartets Nos. ... |
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the week in Dance w/ Showtrotta (July 4th weekend edition) - Brooklyn Vegan
![]() Brooklyn Vegan | the week in Dance w/ Showtrotta (July 4th weekend edition) Brooklyn Vegan Steve Reich and Philip Glass meet Chicago House to create a pulsing, bleeping, and blipping techno baby. On Warm Up Saturdays, from 2:00 pm to 9:00 pm, ... |
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Loyal to the music - Hornell Evening Tribune
Loyal to the music Hornell Evening Tribune The Glassmen's show this year is “The Journey of ONE,” which features pieces by Joseph Curiale, Steve Reich, Michale Nyman, Cesar Franck and Harry Nilsson. ... |
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Californication: Ears wide open during summer fellowship - Scene
Californication: Ears wide open during summer fellowship Scene Next to books by composers Pierre Boulez and John Cage are texts by the philosophers Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault. While I haven't had the privilege ... |
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Chamber Music in Norfolk - Litchfield County Times
Chamber Music in Norfolk Litchfield County Times He has collaborated with such eminent conductors as Abbado, Ashkenazy, Barbirolli, Blomstedt, Boulez, Chailly, Davis, Doráti, Fischer, Haitink, Kempe, ... |
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Gleanings from the On-Line
Before popular music was invented, everybody had to listen to unpopular music.
I pray for dead people because they are dead—but I don’t canonize them.
I can’t hear the words Sgt Pepper’s without going back to my days as an academic quiz team coach. Once, in the final game of an interscholastic tournament (which we won), there was the following typically quirky question: “Given the name of a person, state whether he was on the cover of Sgt Peppers, a Nobel Prize winner, both, or neither.” One of my players had the cover memorized (remember this is like 1996), so he’d shoot “on the cover” over to another player who had all the Nobel laureates memorized. They nailed every one.
Amateurs built the Ark; professionals built the Titanic.
Do I read that right? You “listen with pleasure” to “Wanna Be Startin’ Something” and “Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough,” but you feel no impulse to dance?
Jack, you dead.
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Here We Go Magic - The Quietus
![]() The Quietus | Here We Go Magic The Quietus Sounding like Bon Iver covering Gomez with a Steve Reich choir burbling monomaniacally away in the background, it should be horrible but radiates a queer ... |
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Steve Reich's "2x5" Premieres in Sold-Out Manchester Festival ... - Nonesuch Records
Steve Reich's "2x5" Premieres in Sold-Out Manchester Festival ... Nonesuch Records Steve Reich's latest creation, 2x5, premieres tonight on a double bill with pioneering German electronic music group Kraftwerk, in a sold-out concert at the ... |
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Comments/Critiques/Rants about My String Quartet #5
I just deleted Adam's last comment on my blog, which was a quote from Dennis Bathory-Kitsz about how these forums have no real criticism, but mere back-slapping. Rather than continue the passive/aggressive circus that my blog has become since a few folks attempted to 'intervene' in my continuing use of tonality, I've decided to invite comments and criticisms about the piece here, in a public setting. I don't want my announcement, on my blog, to be a forum for ad generis critiques of my style(s). It is disrespectful of the great performers and it's disrespectful to me.Instead, let's talk about it here. Maybe a little steam needs to be let out. But please, critique the piece and not me! FWIW, and as I posted on my blog, when I announced the piece in 2001 on rec.music.compose, similar fireworks occurred. Just for fun here they are. Now, just for the record, I was being a little bit snide in my response, because the critic, orangie, had been attacking me for months and was frankly a little bit weird.
Announcement from 2001 for Tetra-Mnemosyne VII on rec.music.compose
For those that haven't heard the piece, it flirts with classical tonality from the 19th century from time to time and this seems to freak people out. Are these harmonic gestures week and inappropriate? Do they add anything to the piece? Do they weaken the piece? Do I integrate those harmonic gestures succesfully into the motoric processes? Do the transitions work between the different stylistic spheres? Whatever questions you can think of - go for it.
Here's the recording:
String Quartet #5 - Performed by Quatuor de Orchestre 2021 Live in Paris May 2009
Here's the score:
Score to Harrington String Quartet #5
Originally from Discussion Forum - NetNewMusic, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Jul 2, 2009 at 12:20 PM | Comments (0)
Annotate music for your listeners using audio tag and JavaScript
I don't usually post here because I'm not a composer or a musician, just a (relatively uneducated) listener. However I'll beg your indulgence today, as I thought at least some of you may be interested in this topic and I do know something about it (I work for Mozilla).As you may know, many modern browsers, including the latest versions of Firefox (3.5) and Safari (3.1 and later), support new HTML5 <audio> and <video> tags that allow easy embedding of audio or video content in a web page without the need to use Flash or other plug-ins. What you may not know is that you can use JavaScript in combination with other web technologies (CSS, XML, etc.) to build additional functionality around the playing of audio or video content.
As part of a "Firefox 3.5 for web developers" series of blog posts we've just published a post on exploring music with the audio tag highlighting a demo produced by Samuel Goldszmidt of IRCAM that shows how you can add text descriptions for the benefit of someone listening to a piece of music (in this case an extract from Florence Baschet's StreicherKreis).
In the demo the JavaScript code is tracking the current time within the piece to show an indicator of which segment is being played; by mousing over the segment the listener can get a text description, and by clicking on the segment have the segment be replayed from the beginning. Not anything you couldn't also do in Flash, but the point is that you don't need Flash, just JavaScript.
In this case the music is in Ogg Vorbis format (not MP3) because that's what Firefox supports natively; we're trying to encourage adoption of open audio and video formats on the web. You can play the demo in Safari as well (I tried Safari 4.0 on OS X), if you install the XiphQT component allowing playing of Ogg Vorbis in QuickTime-based applications.
If you look at the actual source for the demo page you'll see that at the moment doing this sort of thing is not for the faint of heart, as it definitely requires some JavaScript knowledge. I hope that as more people make use of the and tags developers will create toolkits and JavaScript libraries that will make it much easier for relative web novices to post their own music with text annotations and additional material to supplement the listening experience.
Originally from Discussion Forum - NetNewMusic, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Jul 2, 2009 at 12:20 PM | Comments (0)
about tonality
About tonality:(BTW this is a pretty weird interview, David-Lynch-style)
(you see, Europeans always have this upper cat attitude - but that is only their problem!)
also, questionable views about democracy...
But I agree with him on tonality. At least I'm unable to hear anything (even Boulez) not-tonally. Probably that's because I was educated in Hungary, Kodaly-system, you know, ut-re-mi-fa sol-la, etc. In the smallest pieces of music instinctively searching for (or projecting into maybe?) tonal relationships. It is actually a hindrance, I feel, because there are pieces which are intentionally NOT tonal, and my tonality-based approach limits my understanding of them.
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This Friday Could be Interesting!
We've been having some fun these last few weeks with the addition of the collaborative improvs, and not to mention the great solo improvisations! Last week was outstanding! We don't have a seed yet, but if no one adds one, I should by Thursday evening.This week in honor of ImprovFriday, I am proud to announce the premiere of the miniature opera, "The Man Who Lives Inside a Piano Finds a Hornets Nest." And by miniature, I mean just that. 6 1/2 minutes. Dennis and Lee are kind to let me go forward with this. I hope they like what I did!!!! It will look like this (plus or minus a few changes).
Premiering July 3, 2009, at 4 PM EST (an ImprovFriday Event)
The Man Who Lives Inside a Piano Finds a Hornet’s Nest
A Miniature Opera for Text and Audio – Dedicated to David Toub
by Lee Noyes, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, JC Combs
The Players
Lee Noyes as Bartolomeo Cristofori
Piano - Improvisation
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz as Franc the Piano Tuner
Extended Voice – Improvisation
JC Combs
Sound Synthesis – Libretto
Libretto – by JC Combs
The Background: It had been no more than two years since Franc took up residence inside a piano. An unfortunate dwelling, but not by choice. You see Franc, a piano tuner by trade, was tricked and pushed into a Steinway Grand D by a concert pianist with a surprisingly sinister side. His name was Bartolomeo Cristofori. He had phoned Franc earlier in the day complaining that a penny had somehow dropped into the soundboard, apparently making somewhat of a persistent rattling noise. ”No, look further in, down there. You must retrieve the penny so I can sufficiently practice for the concert at the estate of Prince Ferdinando de Medici this coming Friday.” Those were the last words Franc remembered hearing before falling headlong into the gigantic grand. He passed out for some time and woke up only to find the piano nailed shut, with him in it! Inside, he realized that the piano had been converted into a sort of prison cell.
Franc tried for days on end to kick the lid open but to no avail. However, a peculiar thing happened one day when his captor first played the piano while he was locked inside. As Bartolomeo played, Franco lost the ability to speak and all he could do was make vocal gestures, as if he had forgotten the English language altogether. Another strange thing happened when the pianist struck a note: Franc became extremely happy, and so it wasn’t long before Franc decided that should one day his captor free him, he would stay in the piano of his own will. Every day henceforth was wonderful for Franc, as he would wake up early and clean and tune the inside of the piano in preparation to play along with the pianist. Franc had become quite proud of his ability to pluck the strings and beat strong rhythms on the aged wooden walls which enveloped him. Together the sinister pianist and Franc the piano tuner created brilliant masterpieces. That is, until one day while carefully tending to the inner workings of the grand he came upon a hornet’s nest.
Where We Catch Up With the Players (turn on the audio): As Franc cannot call out for help, he attempts to befriend the hornets by singing softly without words. However, the pianist (not aware that a hornet’s nest is inside the piano) is busy playing and Franc, ever so frightened of the hornets, starts frantically plucking and hammering away at the strings. The hornets become curious and fly around and about Franc. Many sit on his shoulder. Sadly, the plan backfires when a hammer hits the nest. The hornets become angry and swarm and sting and sting and sting! Alas, the hornets stings are too much for Franc and as he sings one last note, he dies. His master finally hears the swarm of the hornets and rushes over to pry open the lid in the hope of saving his prisoner, but it is too late and as the lid opens the hornets sting Bartolomeo Cristofori without mercy.
The scene closes tragically with captor and captive together, dead inside the piano.
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VVAA Pioneers - The Beginning Of Danish Electronic Music - Neural
![]() Neural | VVAA Pioneers - The Beginning Of Danish Electronic Music Neural ... dating back primarily to the sixties-seventies, with a selection that accomplishes meticulous research into early Danish electronic avant-garde. ... |
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Contempory classical music has brought orchestra, Gier good luck - Sioux Falls Argus Leader
Contempory classical music has brought orchestra, Gier good luck Sioux Falls Argus Leader So he makes it a point to program about 20 percent contemporary classical music, too. "Once you start playing music of living composers and showing your ... |
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New York world-rock trio draws influence from both home and abroad - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
![]() Pittsburgh Post Gazette | New York world-rock trio draws influence from both home and abroad Pittsburgh Post Gazette So even though the group as a whole are huge fans of avant-garde jazz icon John Zorn ("There was one show when we saw Electric Masada that was an ... |
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Roger Bourland: St Stephen Counterpoint (1989)

Leonard Raver
A brief collaboration that I will never forget was receiving a commission from Juilliard faculty member and organist for the New York Philharmonic, Leonard Raver. Leonard was asked to give an inaugural concert for a new organ in a church named St Stephen Episcopal Church. Leonard suggested the notion of quoting the hymn tune “St Stephen” somewhere in the composition. You’ll hear it all over the place in “St Stephen Counterpoint.” Leonard performs this work in 1991 for an “Organists Against AIDS” concert.
Leonard Raver was to die the following year, 1992, of AIDS. Before he died, he recommended me to then Director of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, Jon Bailey, to compose the work that was to become “Hidden Legacies” — a work and an experience that changed my life. I am grateful to have known Leonard, even if it were for a short time.
Listen to the performance — such energy and power and drive. This recording is from the Pipe Dreams radio series.
Download audio file (St_Stephen_Counterpoint.mp3)
St Stephen Counterpoint (1989)
Music: Roger Bourland
Organ: Leonard Raver
Published by ECS Publishing, Boston
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Paired to perfection: Twin sisters on two pianos showcase each other - Philadelphia Inquirer
Paired to perfection: Twin sisters on two pianos showcase each other Philadelphia Inquirer The 20-year-old pianists from Madison, Wis., were part of the Curtis Institute of Music's contribution to this Mann season. Though the crowd wasn't nearly ... |
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200th Anniversary of the Death of Josef Haydn - The Santa Barbara Independent
200th Anniversary of the Death of Josef Haydn The Santa Barbara Independent Last week, the program included music of Gyorgy Ligeti, and next Tuesday's menu includes Béla Bartók and Dimitri Shostakovich, with subsequent Tuesday ... |
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Phil Kline's Daze DVD Reviewed at Lucid Culture
Another fine review for Phil Kline's Around the World in a Daze DVD appears today courtesy of Lucid Culture.It begins by describing Kline as "One of this era’s most fearlessly relevant composers."

They note the DVD offers "a mix of compositions which run the gamut from challenging to confrontational to playfully fun." And they conclude: "New music fans will salivate over this."
Read the full review.
Visit Starkland.
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Benjamin Jay Womack 1975-2009 R.I.P.
A great friend and an amazing human being.
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60x60 Dance @ the Winter Garden, NYC (11/14/08) [Mukherjee/Pride]
Kronecker DeltaMusic: Tim Mukherjee
Dance: Erin Pride/EDP Dance Project
notes:
The Kronecker Delta is an electronic through-composed piece using enhanced orchestral and synthetic timbres. Tim Mukherjee is a composer living in New York City and divides his time between artistic and monetary pursuits. EDP DANCE PROJECT a NJ based Modern Dance Company and the resident company of Silk City Arts Festival. The mission of both the festival and dance company is to rebuild the arts in inner- cities through exposure. EDP DANCE PROJECT prides itself on bringing the individual to the movement. Erin Pride graduated from Montclair State University with a B.F.A. in Dance and is currently attending NYU for her M.F.A. in Dance Education. Erin, a New Jersey native, is the Director of Dance at Rosa Parks High School of Fine and Performing Arts and the Artistic Director of Silk City Arts Festival/ EDP Dance Project all located in Paterson New Jersey. Michelle Puskas recently received her B.F.A. degree, Magna Cum Laude in Dance from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts. She was the recipient of the Garden State Arts Foundation 2007 Thomas H. Kean Scholarship. Michelle is currently a scholarship student with Jennifer Muller/The Works in NYC. Dancers: Erin Pride and Michelle Puskas.
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60x60 Dance @ the Winter Garden, NYC (11/14/08) [McLean/RETTOCAMME]
Inside the Hadronron ColliderMusic: Jordan McLean
Dance: Emma Cotter / RETTOCAMME
notes:
INSIDE THE HADRON COLLIDER for 9 trumpets and ring modulator Inspired by the National Geographic article about the world's largest atom smasher. Jordan McLean has been a band leader and trumpeter for over 15 years and lead trumpeter and charter member of Antibalas. RETTOCAMME is a process-oriented dance/art/design group, founded in NYC, 2003, by Emma Cotter. Recent performances have included 60X60 at Galapagos, the Solar Powered Dance series at Solar One and collaborations with Manhattan Samba at the Jonathan Shorr Gallery and McCarren Pool. Dancer Emma Cotter
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60x60 Dance @ the Winter Garden, NYC (11/14/08) [Merrell/Patchett/Gac-Artiga]
Sixty Second SerenadeMusic: Todd Merrell
Dance: Kate Patchett and Melina Gac-Artiga
notes:
Sixty Second Serenade represents my continued fascination with discovering the soul that humans design into their machinery, and coaxing humanity from technology. It is a love song to those who have remained so devoted and sympathetic to me over the years: my beautiful machines. Todd Merrell studied composition and voice at Berklee College of Music, and with James Sellars of The Hartt School, and works primarily with single sideband shortwave radio, granular synthesis, and processing. He has been reviewed in The Wire and other publications, and recorded for labels including Archive and Mode.
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60x60 Dance @ the Winter Garden, NYC (11/14/08) [Kuntzel/Smith]
Wenn ich ein Voglein warMusic: Tilman Kuntzel
Dance: Hadley Smith
notes:
Hadley Smith is a senior at Barnard College majoring in Dance and Sociology. She is a founding member of CoLAB (Collaborative of the Ludicrous and Beautiful) a performance art collective for students at Barnard and Columbia University and enjoys nothing more than making art happen. Thanks to Mary Cochran for giving me this opportunity and to all the glorious Barnard Dance peoples. Dancer: Hadley Smith
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Closing Out June
The recording of Bullish Upticks (I) is now in hand.Work continues on Heedless Watermelon; it will be important to keep it to six (or even five) minutes. That’s a good bit of discipline, after writing several expansive pieces.
Delighted at the prospect of a harpsichord adaptation of Lost Waters (after all, for years there has been a guitar adaptation somewhere in the back of my mind).
And I’ve sent a copy of the score for the Passion According to St John to a doctoral candidate in the Netherlands who is doing a study on 20th- and 21st-century Passion settings.
Good night all!
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Industrial Jazz Group - ReverbNation [del.icio.us]
now that i'm on break i'm looking forward to listening to their latest album LEEF. "Frustrated by the limitations of “Jazz, the Institution,” but equally resistant to the confines of modern pop, the Industrial Jazz Group has slowly pioneered a middle way. Its music is an idiosyncratic blend of rock, bebop, cartoon soundtracks, blues, funk, Balkan music, doo wop, and, well, a lot of other stuff. (In the end, it’s neither “industrial” nor “jazz,” so don't let the name fool you.)"Originally posted by pbailey68 from paulbailey.us (beta), ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Jul 2, 2009 at 05:10 AM | Comments (0)
Los Angeles Eat+Drink - Snook Attack: La Chente [del.icio.us]
johnathan gold again tempts me with his food porn. "Have you ever encountered pescadoZarandeado? Because it is as intimidating as an entrée can get, a vast, smoking creature split open at the backbone and flopped open into a sort of skeleton-punctuated mirror image of itself, wisps of steam rising around the onions and lemon slices with which it is strewn, served on the kind of plastic tray you may remember from your high school cafeteria, which is probably the only vessel broad enough to handle the fish. As served at Mariscos La Chente, a Westside restaurant specializing in the seafood dishes of Sinaloa and Nayarit, it is so menacing that you scarcely know whether to eat it or beat it to death with a stick."Originally posted by pbailey68 from paulbailey.us (beta), ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Jul 2, 2009 at 05:10 AM | Comments (0)
From the Kol Israel Orchestra to a Pygmy Choir - Forward
From the Kol Israel Orchestra to a Pygmy Choir Forward Asked by interviewers to cite sources for his rhythmically variegated piano music, Ligeti would later claim: “Chopin and Pygmies. ... |
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Adès: The Tempest - Musical Criticism
![]() Musical Criticism | Adès: The Tempest Musical Criticism The point of setting poetry or drama in music is to transfigure that text with sound, and if five acts of thickly conceived poetic marvels doesn't stand in ... |
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Aldeburgh festival closing weekend - guardian.co.uk
Aldeburgh festival closing weekend guardian.co.uk Collaborating with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra over two concerts, Aimard drew parallels between the methods of Haydn and Ligeti, Birtwistle and Stockhausen ... |
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Gig review: Chick Corea - Scotsman
Gig review: Chick Corea Scotsman That arrived in the second half, when Corea set aside jazz and turned to notated music. Following his own Spanish-inflected The Yellow Nimbus, ... |
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July 01, 2009
A city of culture - The National
A city of culture The National ... Rufus Wainwright's debut opera; a double-bill performance by the pioneers of contemporary music Kraftwerk and Steve Reich; the immersive theatre of It ... |
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And then there were two - The Herald
And then there were two The Herald Plus great music by the likes of Robert Wyatt, Steve Reich, Steely Dan, Nancy Sinatra and the fabby Bon Iver. What's not to like? |
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Passion, precision and passages at Summer Stages Dance Series in ... - Daily News Transcript
Passion, precision and passages at Summer Stages Dance Series in ... Daily News Transcript ... music of Hungarian master composer Gyorgy Ligeti; “The Watteau Duets,” with music by David Linton and the high-energy keyboard and drum duo, TALIBAM!, ... |
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School of rock: Q is for Quixotic - guardian.co.uk
![]() guardian.co.uk | School of rock: Q is for Quixotic guardian.co.uk Sounding as much like Boulez as Basie, Sun Ra coaxed the sounds of the known universe from his synths and his band until the music escalated into a cosmic ... |
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Guest Lists Sunset Rubdown - Pitchfork Media
![]() Pitchfork Media | Guest Lists Sunset Rubdown Pitchfork Media ... but I've been really into Steve Reich lately. I first started listening to him around 10 years ago when I was in music school, but I was listening in ... |
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From the Kol Israel Orchestra to a Pygmy Choir - Forward
From the Kol Israel Orchestra to a Pygmy Choir Forward Asked by interviewers to cite sources for his rhythmically variegated piano music, Ligeti would later claim: “Chopin and Pygmies. ... |
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Interview: Robert Ponsonby - A life among the stars - Scotsman
Interview: Robert Ponsonby - A life among the stars Scotsman ... flat with Daniel Barenboim and former SNO leader Sam Bor playing piano trios), Yehudi Menuhin, John Ogden, Pierre Boulez, Michael Tippett and many more. ... |
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Boston Modern Orchestra Project Launches The Score Board
Thirty-six composers have joined forces to form The Score Board in support of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. The Boston-area composers have committed themselves to "sustaining, generating, and organizing composer activities" in support of the ensemble.Originally from NewMusicBox, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Jul 1, 2009 at 08:12 PM | Comments (0)
Go Ahead, Second Guess Me
The conviction—one under which I labored for some years—that the resistance to commodification inherent in ugly, bleak sounds was an imperative, that the only way to raise one's voice against the totalizing, alienating press of the market was to shrivel and wither that voice so completely that nobody would ever want to hear it, blinded me to the possibility that good music, ethical music of high integrity, can sound good too.Originally from NewMusicBox, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Jul 1, 2009 at 08:12 PM | Comments (0)
Gunther Schuller: Multiple Streams
Gunther Schuller has had profound importance as a jazz arranger and historian as well as a twelve-tone composer, conductor, publisher and record producer, and at 83 years young he's still going strong. Read the interview...Originally from NewMusicBox, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Jul 1, 2009 at 08:12 PM | Comments (0)
Up and Down
Too much Grau und Drang for proper blogging today. Here's a story instead:Jean Martinon, spare, white-haired conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, last week tried to explain his two favorite sports—skiing and mountain climbing—to his ancient counterpart, Conductor Charles Munch. "In both," he said, "You are in the mountains, where you become a freer man. But, psychologically, skiing is a sport in which you must go downhill. Mountain climbing is a sport of ascent. In skiing there is much more competition, which spoils something of it for me. In mountain climbing nobody praises you for what you do well. You do it well for the beauty of the thing."
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Hadid's Bach pavillion isn't the first architectural music box - guardian.co.uk
![]() guardian.co.uk | Hadid's Bach pavillion isn't the first architectural music box guardian.co.uk The most famous is probably pavilion that Iannis Xenakis designed for Edgard Varèse's Poème électronique at the Brussels World's Fair in 1958. ... A city of culture |
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Making The Score Come Alive
">Hoedown from Rodeo from Eleanor Stewart on Vimeo.
@sinclairmusic from Greenwood Lake, New York brought these three minutes of loveliness to Miss Mussel’s attention this morning via Twitter. The video is a stop motion representation of Aaron Copland’s Hoedown from the ballet Rodeo (1942) created by Eleanor Stewart as her final degree project at the Glasgow School of Art. Well done, Eleanor!
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What’s wrong with the German Petition against Music Collecting Society GEMA
Yesterday I came across this petition on the website of the German Bundestag. It is a petition to the parliament that has been signed by over 83,000 people yet. The main point is to check whether the German music collecting society GEMA is operating accoding to the German constitution. The idea behind it is that the fees for hosting a concert are too high for small concert organizers and that at the same time only a small portion of the royalties actually reaches the composers.
Image by Bullard
So far so good. I am somewhat surprised that the petition does not address the most apparent problem that concerns *all* collecting societies (ASCAP, BMI, GEMA etc.)
At a time when most performers are trying to market themselves via websites and social networking platforms, the ability to stream their own recordings becomes crucial. After all, you want to showcase your talent, so that more and more people will take notice of you and come to your concerts.
Streaming music from your website is technically no big problem anymore, but this is where the GEMAs, ASCAPs, and BMIs of this world come into play.
Say you recorded three CDs with 15 works by 3 different composers. You host your website in the US. 2 composers are registering their works with ASCAP, one is registered with BMI. In order to stream your own recordings from your own website you would have to pay annual fees in excess of over $600 to ASCAP and BMI.
Why that? None of the collecting societies offers licenses for individual works or for all works by one composer only. If you want to stream one work, you have to get a comprehensive license that would allow you to stream all (!!) of the works that have been regeistered with that collecting society. That includes millions of works: all of Van Halen, all of Frank Sinatra, all of Motörhead, all of Björk, all of …. and also the 15 works that you want to stream from your website.
How crayz is that? Let me know what you think.
Here is a link to the petition again.
PS: if you are composer and you wanted to stream recordings of your own music, you would have to buy the comprehensive license, too!
PPS: I think composers should definitely get paid when their music is played, downloaded, and streamed. I am just questioning the practice of not making the purchase of licenses more flexible.
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With Glowing Hearts We See Thee Rise
It’s our day for wearing red and white clothing, listening to atrocious tribute bands in the park playing Canadian songs people have only vaguely heard of and mangling the national anthem in two languages before the fireworks begin.
Here’s a few things that make Canada what it is – practically perfect in every way. *cough*
Hover on each image for a superfun Canada Day message. You know you want to. What else are you going to do?
Click this ad indefinitely? Ok…well have fun then.







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July 2009 CMC Composer of the Month -- Episode 1 [mp3]
July 2009 CMC Composer of the Month -- Episode 1 [mp3]
Michael McGlynn, composer and director of Irish choral group Anuna, talks to Michael Quinn about composing for orchestra, choral music in Ireland, and current and future projects.
Music excerpts used with kind permission:
Episode 1 [19:48]
Music excerpts used with kind permission:
0:00 An Oiche, Michael McGlynn [Anuna, director Michael McGlynn] copyright Michael McGlynn
2:30 Dulaman, Michael McGlynn [Anuna, director Michael McGlynn] copyright Michael McGlynn
6:45 Silver River, Michael McGlynn [Anuna, director Michael McGlynn, Kenneth Edge (sax), Noel Eccles (perc.)] copyright Michael McGlynn
13:30 Visions, Michael McGlynn [Kenneth Edge (sax)] copyright Michael McGlynn
19:50 Shining Water, Michael McGlynn [Lucy Champion (S-solo), Anuna, Michael McGlynn (low whistle), Maire Breathnach (va), Andreja Mahlir (hrp), Noel Eccles (perc)] copyright Michael McGlynn
From Podcast: Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland: Monthly Podcast.
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Patrick Wolf, Plastiscines, and Jaguar Love - Austin 360
Patrick Wolf, Plastiscines, and Jaguar Love Austin 360 The roots of Wolf's music embrace everything from PJ Harvey to Stockhausen and English folk music to the legendary jazz trumpet player and singer, ... |
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Because It’s Just So Jolly
Miss Mussel has a weakness for large groups of homogenous instruments – string quartet, cello ensemble, bassoon quartet, horn octet and even tuba choir, as long as the range and timbre variance is large. Saxophone ensembles are begrudgingly admired but groups of flutes, clarinets or oboes are avoided like that porcine influenza that seems to be popping up all over creation.
Here’s the horns of the Berliner and Vienna Philharmonikers hashing through a movement of Haydn’s String Quartet Hob.Ⅲ 38 “The Joke” It’s a lovely idea except for the small technical problem of French horns not being built to play very high relative to, say, the violin. The highest note in orchestra horn literature can easily be reached in first position on the violin.
All goes well until 1:27 when the gentlemen third from the right decides to play his line in the correct octave. His valiant reach for a super D (G on top of the treble staff in concert pitch) goes a bit awry. At that altitude, the notes are attainable but only just and very unreliably. The odds are better for him than Icarus but the end result is the same.
Here are eight Berliners rocking Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture. Say what you wish about French horns – that opening lick is pretty impressive stuff.
And finally, one for the kids.
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June 30, 2009
(CUL) TURKISH MUSIC FESTIVAL HONORS CONDUCTOR WITH AWARD - Turk.Net
(CUL) TURKISH MUSIC FESTIVAL HONORS CONDUCTOR WITH AWARD Turk.Net ISTANBUL (AA) - 30.06.2009 - A Turkish international music festival honored a foreign pianist and conductor with an award on Tuesday. ... |
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Passion, precision and passages at Summer Stages Dance Series in ... - Taunton Daily Gazette
Passion, precision and passages at Summer Stages Dance Series in ... Taunton Daily Gazette ... music of Hungarian master composer Gyorgy Ligeti; “The Watteau Duets,” with music by David Linton and the high-energy keyboard and drum duo, TALIBAM!, ... |
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"A Monumental Musician": Principal Clarinet Stanley Drucker Plays ... - PlaybillArts
![]() PlaybillArts | "A Monumental Musician": Principal Clarinet Stanley Drucker Plays ... PlaybillArts Pierre Boulez: “Another of my favorites. He is a musician who opened up a lot of eyes to how to perform the new music. His skill is tremendous. ... |
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The Realm of the Senses
Last night I embarked on a completely new (at least for me) experiential adventure: a jaunt through various perfume counters in an effort to figure out if my experience of their wares could in any way be analogous to the way I perceive visual art, literature, film, or any of the performing arts—obviously, most of all, music.Originally from NewMusicBox, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Jun 30, 2009 at 11:11 PM | Comments (0)
Sara Jacovino wins 2009 BMI Foundation Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Prize
Sara Jacovino has been awarded the BMI Foundation's Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Prize, which includes a cash award along with a $3,000 commission.Originally from NewMusicBox, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Jun 30, 2009 at 08:11 PM | Comments (0)
Four Composers Selected for EarShot/Colorado Symphony Readings
Compositions by four emerging composers—Yotam Haber, Angel Lam, Jeremy Podgursky, and Tim Sullivan—will be featured by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra in their first-ever new music readings on July 16-17, 2009 in Denver.Originally from NewMusicBox, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Jun 30, 2009 at 08:11 PM | Comments (0)
NAACP Centennial Convention to Feature Newly-Commissioned Musical Works
Meet The Composer, in collaboration with arts activist and educator Dr. Rae Alexander-Minter, has commissioned compositions by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. and Paul D. Miller (a.k.a. DJ Spooky) for the NAACP Centennial Convention on July 12, 2009 at New York's Hilton Hotel Ballroom.Originally from NewMusicBox, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Jun 30, 2009 at 08:11 PM | Comments (0)
Clock Opera (No 574) - guardian.co.uk
Clock Opera (No 574) guardian.co.uk ... as Associates and Animal Collective can be counted as "pop", or if the ravishing "systems music" of Philip Glass and Steve Reich could be called such. ... |
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Tempora mutantur
Queens wasn’t a hip place to be from
if you wanted to be a folk-singer.
— Paul Simon
Although The Stranger was Billy Joel’s breakthrough album, it was the overall excellence of 52nd Street which got my musical blood boiling on its initial release. Though I did not delay all that much to buy the LP, all the same I had heard better than half of the album over the radio before I owned the vinyl myself. I still remember riding in a friend’s car in Pompton Lakes, turning the radio on and hearing “Until the Night” . . . and I remember, almost as if the seconds are ticking by all over again, how awareness that the singer was Billy Joel sank in only gradually.
The irony is something wistful, after the ball-player’s subsequent history, to hear Joel singing, “Rose, he knows he’s such a credit to the game.”
Still, for a Yankees fan to acknowledge such a thing . . . the sentiment does Billy Joel credit.
Freddie Hubbard’s solo on “Zanzibar”: magical, electrifying.
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Bookmarks for June 26th through June 29th [del.icio.us]
Bookmarks from June 26th through June 29th:[del.icio.us]
- Los Angeles New Music Ensemble – looks like there is a new music group in town. welcome aboard! “The Los Angeles New Music Ensemble (LANME) is an organization created to promote new music, collaboration within the arts, the commissioning of new works, and the creation of multimedia presentations within innovative live performances. To further these goals, LANME is dedicated to learning and playing the best and most exciting new chamber music around.”
- New school board members ready for challenge – LA Daily News -former John Marshall High School colleague Steve Zimmer is interviewed as he prepares to become a school board member. “Zimmer admits that scarier than dealing with a billion-dollar deficit is the idea of not being on the campus of Marshall every day. It will be interesting to see if someone immersed on the ground level can translate that experience to doing a good job on the board,” Zimmer said.” As a teacher, Zimmer has also been a very active member of United Teachers Los Angeles, which has prompted some to believe his vote will always follow the powerful union’s stance. I don’t accept that voting on the side of the union is siding against students,” he said “
- laboratory tests of vegan restaurants in la | vegan food and living in Los Angeles -
very interesting blog post that tests a number of LA restaurants to see if their food was really vegan. (fyi: i’m not and my wife is a pescatarian) although there were some meals that were obviously misrepresented as vegan, it seems the biggest culprit might be the mislabeling and mistranslation of food from the taiwan to us markets.
- A Chapter from The Listen: Music for 18 Musicians – these excerpts are being touted as a new type of music criticism and a new way to attract audiences. i hate to throw a bucket of cold water on these ambitious young writer/composers, but the excerpts are overwritten and seem musically naive, trying to impress a faculty advisor in grad school. hence exhibit A and B: “
- And now melody. And now melodies. The melodies here being the playings-out of the harmonies. The harmonies being the on-ringing of all the melodic notes” “
- The harmonies are one harmony that absorbs the up-till-now waves of the other harmonies, that absorbs the leftover pulses. This accumulated on-ringing describes a recognizable environment… —a single addition to the bottom of the harmony—acts as a diaphragm, allowing this environment to open and to breathe in”
- this play by play description doesn’t work for me and its certainly not the way i would want people to read about my music. i think a better tack would be to try and distill what makes these pieces great.
- You balance the budget – Los Angeles Times -Try your hand at closing California’s budget shortfall, estimated at $24 billion. It’s not easy, but it can be done. Cut spending, raise taxes and/or borrow to get the state out of the red. For each choice — drawn from proposals from across the political spectrum — we’ve tried to give some sense of the effects. As you craft your proposal, the Deficit Meter will show your progress.
- The tragic end of Michael Jackson: The Jeruselum Post – very tragic michael jackson quote that is further proof that fame is not a replacement for love “I am going to say something I have never said before and this is the truth. I have no reason to lie to you and God knows I am telling the truth. I think all my success and fame, and I have wanted it, I have wanted it because I wanted to be loved. That’s all. That’s the real truth. I wanted people to love me, truly love me, because I never really felt loved. I said I know I have an ability. Maybe if I sharpened my craft, maybe people will love me more. I just wanted to be loved, because I think it is very important to be loved and to tell people that you love them and to look in their eyes and say it.”
- I’m in a band… -via S21, i’m glad to see other composer/performers starting their own groups
- Just Released: “New World Ardor”- NetNewMusic – willam houston’s new (and very enjoyable) post-apocalypse party music. reminds me of john oswald’s ‘plunderphonics’
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International jazz and world music festival ''Rigas ritmi'' began ... - The Baltic Course
International jazz and world music festival ''Rigas ritmi'' began ... The Baltic Course Artists performing at the festival will also include trumpet player Markus Stockhausen (Germany), vocalist Maria Joao (Portugal), percussionist Marilyn ... |
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Recording studios cautious after violent incidents - San Francisco Chronicle
Recording studios cautious after violent incidents San Francisco Chronicle said Elliott Carter, manager of ECHO Studios. "Anything can happen at anytime. You've got to stay on top of things, because if not, you will get caught ... |
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