Name that piece! The game

[Amfortas]

Not Harrison or Ives

This is a very stylistically diverse, chameleonlike composer.

George Antheil?

[Brian]

This composer is such a chameleon s/he's fooled everyone with regard to his/her nationality!

[Hattoff]

I'll put £1 on a 500/1 outsider, Carmela Mackenna?...........Who?

[Brian]

OK, a Hint: This work was premiered at the BBC Proms.

[Amfortas]

OK, a Hint: This work was premiered at the BBC Proms.

Out of hundreds that were, I'll guess Richard Rodney Bennett

[listener]

One of the hints suggests Walter Carlos, but I can't think of a Proms connection, so Thomas Adès?

[Hattoff]

You have us all stumped We need bigger and better clues

[Brian]

You have us all stumped We need bigger and better clues

I guess so! We've alighted upon the right country (UK)... he's written quite a lot of ragtime music and jazz, an organ concerto, works for clavichord and baryton, and some serial and even aleatory music. While a student in New York he met John Cage and was a lifelong admirer...

[Amfortas]

How about MALCOLM WILLIAMSON?

[Brian]

How about _____ _I____SON?

fixed

Luke, if you're reading this thread, you are uniquely well-positioned to identify this composer!

[listener]

Peter Dickinson?

[Brian]

Peter Dickinson?

Yes indeed! The clip is from his piano concerto...



...which was premiered by Howard Shelley in 1984. The excerpt which you've just heard contains a ragtime tune played by a second piano, an upright in the orchestra. This rag has been published separately as the Concerto Rag and can be heard shorn of the original context on Dickinson's CD of his blues, rags, and pastiches:



Other piano works include 'Bach in Blue,' 'Three Satie Transformations,' and a rag pastiche of 'God Save the Queen' [along with, it should be said, several substantive serial works]. But the concerto is a fine example of his more serious output, which also includes quite a bit of organ music and a choral 'Mass for the Apocalypse.'

Dickinson also holds a doctorate, writes many articles and books of musicology, and according to a forum search once marked GMGer Luke's student compositions!

[listener]

It was the 'blues' hint that helped me.  I have a recording of him with his sister of piano music and songs "Four Blues" and "Stevie's Tunes"  etc.
This may be a lightning round,  but it's rather a fun piece, worth drawing to your attention.
Hints eventually, if necessary, and if I can find some.

[Amfortas]

It was the 'blues' hint that helped me.  I have a recording of him with his sister of piano music and songs "Four Blues" and "Stevie's Tunes"  etc.
This may be a lightning round,  but it's rather a fun piece, worth drawing to your attention.
Hints eventually, if necessary, and if I can find some.

Péter Eötvös: Jet Stream?

[listener]

Péter Eötvös: Jet Stream?

sorry, no.
It looks like it's been one of those days for doing something else, I'll allow some more time for others to access it.

[listener]

I am surprised.    Lightning fast answers to a bit from an uncommon Prokofiev opera,  but not this
which I had expected this group to be quite familiar with.
Maybe popular music is a no-no (except for Nono), but why all the interest in Bach's Brandenburgs and Beethoven?

" Since its premiere ...  it has been performed more than 653 times, and must then be the most frequently played modern concerto since its premiere."

[Hattoff]

As much as we would all like it, it's impossible to know every piece of music ever composed  That's why we need clues

Since joining in on this thread I have beern listening to and buying music, excerpted here, that heretofore had escaped me. And, that's absolutely wonderful; great discoveries are being made, sometimes, daily

Is it Jan Sandstrom A Motorbike Odyssey?

[listener]

It is!   I was afraid that I had come to it late, and that another lightning round was possible.
from the trombonist's website: 
  "In 1986 Christian Lindberg and Jan Sandström met for the first time in Iceland, and this meeting proved to become a very important moment in the history of the trombone. No other concerto than "A Motorbike Odyssey" has had a bigger impact on the classical music scene in the whole 1990s. It was the perfect "crossover" piece, a piece that brought young people from other genres in to hear classical music concerts, a piece that contemporary composer respected, a piece that the normal classical audience took to their heart despite its avantguard character, and it made bikers around the world put it into their jukeboxes in their cafés. Since its premiere in 1989 with Chrstian Lindberg, Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Swedish Radio Orchestra it has been performed more than 653 times, and must then be the most frequently played modern concerto since its premiere.
The piece is inspired by Christian Lindberg´s travels around the world, and his experiences in Florida(paddling canoe among alligators), Provence(a motorbike race in a medieval village in Provence) in Australia(a cadenza dedicated to the aboriginal people) and finally a motorbike ride in to heaven. It is a phenomenal showpiece that could as well be seen as a pure concerto for trombone, but it has many layers: religon, humour, music theatre, beaty, wildness, and above all: It has proved to be regarded as a milestone in contemporary composition technique. The piece was written for and dedicated to Christian Lindberg and in addition to the 3 years of work before the premiere, the piece has been revised 2001-2002 by  Jan Sandström and Christian Lindberg in close collaboration. It exists in two versions: a shorter one of 10minutes and a longer, lasting 20minutes. "

I, too, like this thread for is randomness and the affection that members posting have for their selections.

[Hattoff]

Yes, it's good here and I shall listen out for Jan Sandstrom from now on.

Here's the next one.

http://www.4shared.com/audio/ogA1Y_BW/beebop.html

[Amfortas]

Yes, it's good here and I shall listen out for Jan Sandstrom from now on.

Here's the next one.

http://www.4shared.com/audio/ogA1Y_BW/beebop.html

Leonard Bernstein...Prelude, Fugue & Riffs?