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pjme

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October 05, 2015, 09:21:54 AM Last Edit: October 05, 2015, 09:26:14 AM by pjme

Christo

#61
October 05, 2015, 09:33:58 AM
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Christo

#63
October 05, 2015, 11:09:03 AM
Ruth Gipps - for me thé discovery in this respect of recent years, especially on hearing her fine and moving Second Symphony in one movement (1945), though the Fourth, also on Youtube, may be considered her masterpiece
https://www.youtube.com/v/IaD8Cc5U6qA
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

pjme

#64
October 05, 2015, 11:23:57 AM
Thanks for this discovery Christo and Dundonnell. This is a beautiful work!

Peter

Christo

#65
October 05, 2015, 12:42:51 PM
Quote from: pjme on October 05, 2015, 11:23:57 AMThanks for this discovery Christo and Dundonnell. This is a beautiful work!

Peter

:) ... at the same time I cannot but wholeheartedly endorse your contributions here.  :) (Heard Henriëtte Bosmans'  fine concertinos a couple of times in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, BTW).
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Philo

#66
October 07, 2015, 12:10:58 PM
Three of my favorite living composers are women: Marta Ptaszynska, Marta Gornicka, and Liza Lim (who is probably my favorite living composer).

Ptaszynska's Space Model for Percussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obMbCmZgSLs

Marta Gornicka's Magnificat for Women Chorus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d0XWV2Mu3U

Liza Lim's Invisibility
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb81dD7Mems


"Those books aren't for you. They're for someone else." paraphrasing of George Steiner

SimonNZ

#67
October 07, 2015, 10:25:38 PM
^I hadn't heard Liza Lim before. I had a bit of fun checking out things on YT, including her testing unusual instruments with Ensemble MusikFabrik:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A2gQuEqwoM

And her interviewing Irvine Arditti (who seems a refreshingly down to earth guy):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niTCB4E9u7k

Philo

#68
October 08, 2015, 08:47:44 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 07, 2015, 10:25:38 PM
^I hadn't heard Liza Lim before. I had a bit of fun checking out things on YT, including her testing unusual instruments with Ensemble MusikFabrik:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A2gQuEqwoM

And her interviewing Irvine Arditti (who seems a refreshingly down to earth guy):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niTCB4E9u7k

Glad to have been the one to introduce. And thanks to you for that interview. Watching it now.
"Those books aren't for you. They're for someone else." paraphrasing of George Steiner

San Antone

#69
October 08, 2015, 08:57:13 AM
Re: Liza Lim

Liza agreed to be included in my series of composer profiles.  Her article - which includes a short interview, her description of Navigator, a recent operatic work, as well as an audio clip - can be found here.

some guy

#70
October 08, 2015, 10:05:16 AM
Very cool blog, sanantonio.

One of the names I proposed for my own website had the word kaleidoscope in it, but I was overrulled by my then comrades in arms.

So even better that you have a site about new music with the word kaleidoscope in it.  :)

San Antone

#71
October 08, 2015, 10:20:31 AM
Quote from: some guy on October 08, 2015, 10:05:16 AM
Very cool blog, sanantonio.

One of the names I proposed for my own website had the word kaleidoscope in it, but I was overrulled by my then comrades in arms.

So even better that you have a site about new music with the word kaleidoscope in it.  :)

Thanks, SG. 

Philo

#72
October 08, 2015, 03:46:03 PM
Quote from: some guy on October 08, 2015, 10:05:16 AM
Very cool blog, sanantonio.

One of the names I proposed for my own website had the word kaleidoscope in it, but I was overrulled by my then comrades in arms.

So even better that you have a site about new music with the word kaleidoscope in it.  :)

I'm in total agreement. Truly a wonderful site. I can always back someone giving attention to Lim.
"Those books aren't for you. They're for someone else." paraphrasing of George Steiner

San Antone

#73
October 09, 2015, 08:16:25 AM
Roxanna Panufnik : using music to bridge religious differences

Panufnik is the daughter of a Jewish mother and a Polish Catholic father, the composer Sir Andrzej Panufnik; the co-existence of religions and cultures is an essential part of her identity.

QuoteShe says, "there's so much common ground between the monotheistic faiths. Obviously there are some fundamental differences in the way we practice. But I think that too much time and energy is spent on the differences and not enough on the things that we all share. That's what I want to do musically - to highlight those universal elements."

Read more and hear audio samples here.

San Antone

#74
October 11, 2015, 06:48:14 AM
Morgan Krauss : the clashing of emotional opposites



Her music is focused on the latent instability of seemingly fixed gestures where the interaction between performer and the score creates yet a third entity, often guided by improvisation and the clashing of emotional opposites.

More info and audio clips can be found HERE.

jochanaan

#75
October 11, 2015, 04:20:15 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on October 11, 2015, 06:48:14 AM
Morgan Krauss : the clashing of emotional opposites



Her music is focused on the latent instability of seemingly fixed gestures where the interaction between performer and the score creates yet a third entity, often guided by improvisation and the clashing of emotional opposites.

More info and audio clips can be found HERE.
Very nice, and definitely evokes "emotional opposites"! 8)
Imagination + discipline = creativity

ComposerOfAvantGarde

#76
October 11, 2015, 05:18:00 PM
Quote from: Philo on October 07, 2015, 12:10:58 PM
Three of my favorite living composers are women: Marta Ptaszynska, Marta Gornicka, and Liza Lim (who is probably my favorite living composer).

Ptaszynska's Space Model for Percussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obMbCmZgSLs

Marta Gornicka's Magnificat for Women Chorus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d0XWV2Mu3U

Liza Lim's Invisibility
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb81dD7Mems

Liza Lim is a wonderful composer! One of my favourites (not just of female composers)

ComposerOfAvantGarde

#77
October 15, 2015, 12:54:57 AM
Currently listening to Helen Grime's clarinet concerto on this disc



Helen Grime is now right up there with Ferneyhough and Adės as one of my favourite British composers.

ComposerOfAvantGarde

#78
October 15, 2015, 03:35:16 AM
This is the last piece performed on that disc I posted above. Fantastic seeing it be performed! http://youtu.be/ZLH1SoCfjqs

San Antone

#79
October 15, 2015, 10:34:11 AM
Missy Mazzoli : composer for a new dark age



Missy Mazzoli (born 1980) is an American composer and pianist living in Brooklyn, New York who has received critical acclaim for her chamber, orchestral and operatic work.  One of her recent works, Vespers for a New Dark Age, is a 30-minute suite for singers, chamber ensemble and electronics, which inhabits the sometimes disturbing intersection between technology and humanity. The piece, commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the 2014 Ecstatic Music Festival, takes up the bulk of her new album of the same name released in March, 2015.

Vespers reimagines the traditional vespers prayer service, exploring the intersection of our modern technological age with the archaic formality of religious services.
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