This past Thursday I was invited to go see Cadillac Moon Ensemble (CME) perform by two colleagues of mine, Evelyn Farny and Patti Kilroy. Opening up for them was Magic Names Group, a troupe of six vocalists founded specifically to perform the work Stimmung, which they performed in excerpt that evening. They also performed a work [...]
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Though I don’t believe that music education’s short shrift in curriculum alone is the reason for the past decades marked decline in the Classical audience base, it always deserves pointing out that music education isn’t just about introducing younger folks to traditional art music. In The Sunday New York Times Joanne Lipman contributed an Op-Ed that [...] Greg Sandow has a series of posts on diversity in classical music where the principle idea is derived from Ramon Ricker’s quote: Thinking about the well-documented changing demographic of the US towards greater numbers of citizens with other than European (read: white) ancestry, I can’t believe that this population, in 50 years or probably less, will want [...] I recently chronicled attending an avant new music concert at Teatro IATI where Bora Yoon would run what she sang/played through a looping pedal. She would layer harmonies, melodies and pulses on top of each other to create a whole texture. She is not the only one to be using this technique. Here is a different [...] Soundtracks are an integral part of a movie. Many movies just use current pop songs or older classics, but as I am sure you know a large segment have a composer write a score. Aside from people liking music, and thus the reason to put it in movies, music provides an emotional underpinning for a scene. [...] It is always interesting the hear how a composer works, and how they envision the feelings that a piece of art from a different medium express. Here we have Philip Glass writing a work that shares the title of Allen Ginsberg’s Wichita Sutra Vortex: Take a listen to the work and hear the beautiful harmonies, the fresh [...] Yesterday I spoke about how Schoenberg’s pieces and philosophical writings have started us on a journey to have our ears judge works by their thematic content rather than whether all the dissonances are handled like Bach would have wanted them too. Today, I wanted to post some music (better than JT) where the heavy use of [...] JT's music was influenced by a cultural progression started in large part by Arnold Schoenberg Two years ago when Justin Timberlake released his latest album FutureSex/LoveSounds, I absolutely hated it, mostly because of how much I don’t like teen pop albums but also because the big single off of it, SexyBack, sounded like the sound track [...] Composers work very hard on their craft, especially when it comes to motivic development. The development of these motives often comes in altering melodic fragments and placing them in counterpoint or a recombination of the parts to create a new sonic object. Why does this work for our ears though? How does greater organization in a [...] Most violinists or violists who’ve decided to perform as a career have played exercises from these books. They are not quite etudes in the sense that Kreutzer or Rode are, but still much more music-like than Dounis exercises or scales. I find they are incredibly useful, especially the first book in teaching the hand proper motion between [...] |
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