Morton Feldman (1926-1987)

[EigenUser]

milk, Have you heard Takemitsu's "Dream/Window" for orchestra? If not, I think that you'd like it very much. It's like he took Debussy's "Jeux" (my favorite Debussy piece, I'll be the outlier ), poured it through a strainer to remove any melodic themes, and wrote using what was left. The result is actually similar to Feldman's "Coptic Light", but it sounds French.
http://www.youtube.com/v/SQG3NyKT9qk

[milk]

milk, Have you heard Takemitsu's "Dream/Window" for orchestra? If not, I think that you'd like it very much. It's like he took Debussy's "Jeux" (my favorite Debussy piece, I'll be the outlier ), poured it through a strainer to remove any melodic themes, and wrote using what was left. The result is actually similar to Feldman's "Coptic Light", but it sounds French.
http://www.youtube.com/v/SQG3NyKT9qk

Thanks! I'll give it a try!

[EigenUser]

Just downloaded the FeldmanSays widget for the dashboard  (from the first post of the Feldman thread).

Bruce, did you ever end up seeing the 2nd SQ?

[7/4]

On-Demand Audio: FLUX Quartet Performs Morton Feldman's String Quartet No. 2
Live from the Park Avenue Armory on April 26, 2014

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/listen-live-flux-quartet-performs-morton-feldmans-string-quartet-no-2/

[7/4]

listening to Morton Feldman - Marilyn Nonken plays Triadic Memories

http://www.moderecords.com/catalog/136feldman.html

I'm not sure I have 93:48, but I'll try again later if I don't.
And if I do catch it all this morning, I'll probably listen again real soon.

[EigenUser]

I just came across a wonderful interview with Feldman. Typical NYC accent, too.

Why did he have to die in the 1980s?

[Ken B]

I just came across a wonderful interview with Feldman. Typical NYC accent, too.

Why did he have to die in the 1980s?

<accent>So the Seventies are better maybe? </accent>

[EigenUser]

<accent>So the Seventies are better maybe? </accent>

You don't like Feldman?!

[Ken B]

You don't like Feldman?!

You are not getting the inflexion or the accent ...

[milk]

Listening to Stephane Ginsburgh's For Bunita Marcus recently and enjoying it much. Hauntingly beautiful music.

[Catison]

I am going to have the pleasure of hearing For Philip Guston Live in Rothko Chapel this November.  Anyone in the Houston area want to join me?

http://www.dacamera.com/1415season/morton_feldman's_for_philip_guston

[Karl Henning]

That will be beautiful.

[EigenUser]

I came across this yesterday which made me laugh:

At this point, many people give up in frustration. Here is the opening through which Morton Feldman enters, this unlikeliest of composers: a man of 6′, approaching 300 pounds; a non-stop, cigarette-smoking talker with a strong New York accent. Alex Ross described his music this way in The New Yorker issue of June 19, 2006:

    The often noted paradox is that this immense, verbose man wrote music that seldom rose above a whisper. In the noisiest century in history, Feldman chose to be glacially slow and snowily soft. Chords arrive one after another, in seemingly haphazard sequence, interspersed with silences... In its ritual stillness, this body of work abandons the syntax of Western music... Legend has it that after one group of players had crept their way as quietly as possible through a score of his, Feldman barked, "It's too fuckin' loud, and it's too fuckin' fast."

From here: http://drgeraldstein.wordpress.com/tag/morton-feldman/

[ibanezmonster]

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[EigenUser]

I just came across this on eBay -- Feldman's Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello. I don't want it (love the piece, but I'm happy with my YouTube download version ), but apparently it is hard to find. Only $9.99 with free shipping.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Morton-Feldman-Piano-Violin-Viola-Cello-by-John-Snijders-CD-1995-Hat-Art-/191265337025?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item2c884d6ec1

[milk]

I just came across this on eBay -- Feldman's Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello. I don't want it (love the piece, but I'm happy with my YouTube download version ), but apparently it is hard to find. Only $9.99 with free shipping.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Morton-Feldman-Piano-Violin-Viola-Cello-by-John-Snijders-CD-1995-Hat-Art-/191265337025?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item2c884d6ec1

Gosh I tried downloading from youtube several ways and couldn't accomplish it. Thanks for this. I'm watching it to see how the bidding goes.

[petrarch]

Gosh I tried downloading from youtube several ways and couldn't accomplish it. Thanks for this. I'm watching it to see how the bidding goes.

Try JDownloader. I have rarely had issues with it and youtube links.

[milk]

Try JDownloader. I have rarely had issues with it and youtube links.

Thanks. I'll try.
ETA: Well that works! Thank you!

[EigenUser]

Has anyone heard this recording? I am listening to Cello and Orchestra, probably one of my favorite Feldman works, and I keep hearing this extraneous hissing noise in the background. I think I even heard a whistle, which is making me suspect that it is a disrespectful audience member (I'm pretty sure it is a live recording). What a shame.
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By the way, does anyone hear a connection to Webern in Feldman's music (in general)? I was listening to his Orchestra and it is oddly similar to Webern's Six Pieces.

[Karl Henning]

In the sparsity of texture, the focus on just a note as an event, certainly.