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John W
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« on: 21:15:26, 26-06-2008 »

Apologies from me, for posting this on the 21st century thread, but it's where/when we are:

Phamie Gow is a Scottish pianist and composer, who also teaches at the Royal Academy of Music and Drama. Her projects have ranged from writing film music to playing for the Dalai Lama. Phamie’s latest CD is a reflective disc of piano music,

I heard her work 'War Song' today, apparently inspired by a bugler. Well, it must have been one of Mort's buglers  Cheesy


Is it me, or is she 'worse than Einaudi' ?

What is it with these repetitive works from new composers? Guaranteed getting airplay on Classic FM!



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« Reply #1 on: 22:11:40, 26-06-2008 »

Is it me, or is she 'worse than Einaudi' ?



Others can judge. Although, at the risk of going immediately off-topic, I knew Ludovico Einaudi years ago before he became famous for being repetitive. He was then a pupil of Berio's, and writing very elegant, harmonically sophisticated Berioesque stuff. He was a sweetheart.  Undecided
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« Reply #2 on: 09:39:43, 27-06-2008 »

Phamie Gow is a Scottish pianist and composer, who also teaches at the Royal Academy of Music and Drama. Her projects have ranged from writing film music to playing for the Dalai Lama. Phamie’s latest CD is a reflective disc of piano music.

The whole idea of lady composers worries us a bit, although lady novelists are all right. And in this case we do not even understand the Dalai Lama's connection with modern music. It is not his job to listen to it, so he must have been there in his spare time. And anyway he has plenty of monks with those long trumpet things resting on the ground in front of them and echoing their blasts off the Himalayan ice-walls does he not? What are they called? We have always thought that music much more impressive than anything that has come out of Scotland.
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« Reply #3 on: 10:21:54, 27-06-2008 »

Further to the above, here is Younghusband's description of the music he heard at the Jo-Khang Temple or Cathedral at Lhasa:

"Here it was that I found the true inner spirit of the people. The Mongols from their distant deserts, the Tibetans from their mountain homes, seemed here to draw on some hidden source of power. And when from the far recesses of the temple came the profound booming of great drums, the chanting of monks in deep reverential rhythm, the blare of trumpets, the clash of cymbals, and the long rolling of lighter drums, I seemed to catch a glimpse of the source from which they drew. Music is a proverbially fitter means than speech for expressing the eternal realities; and in the deep rhythmic droning of the chants, the muffled rumbling of the drums, the loud clang and blaring of cymbals and trumpets, I realized this sombre people touching their inherent spirit, and, in the way most fitted to them, giving vent to its mighty surgings panting for expression."
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« Reply #4 on: 10:43:04, 27-06-2008 »

The whole idea of lady composers worries us a bit

The music of Lili Boulanger should be your cup of tea.

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And anyway he has plenty of monks with those long trumpet things resting on the ground in front of them and echoing their blasts off the Himalayan ice-walls does he not? What are they called?

Dung, Syd. Dung.
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« Reply #5 on: 12:29:30, 18-07-2008 »

Although, at the risk of going immediately off-topic, I knew Ludovico Einaudi years ago before he became famous for being repetitive. He was then a pupil of Berio's, and writing very elegant, harmonically sophisticated Berioesque stuff. He was a sweetheart.  Undecided

What things are these? I've only heard Divinere, and at best it mildly lulled me from time to time.
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« Reply #6 on: 12:40:59, 18-07-2008 »

Hi JP.
I doubt very much that the pieces I heard and saw are commercially recorded. This was 26 years ago! I think the 'change' in his style started to happen very shortly after that. I see his website advertises a few orchestral and chamber works from the 1980s (published by Ricordi), including a wind quintet called Ai margini dell'aria which I do remember hearing - very colourful and gestural.
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« Reply #7 on: 12:43:18, 18-07-2008 »

I heard her work 'War Song' today, apparently inspired by a bugler.


I never realised Bryan Adams was a bugler...
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« Reply #8 on: 15:10:06, 18-07-2008 »

Have to agree with your implication there Reiner, more Bryan Adams than any bugler I've heard

I can't find any reference to bugler inspiration on her site but someone at CFM said so; that figures  Roll Eyes I wonder if on her site she talks about her compositions and her listeners, and maybe she says everything I do, I do it for you....  Cheesy
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« Reply #9 on: 17:46:57, 18-07-2008 »

Have to agree with your implication there Reiner, more Bryan Adams than any bugler I've heard

Perhaps they meant "burglar"?   Shocked
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« Reply #10 on: 10:55:49, 19-07-2008 »

Although, at the risk of going immediately off-topic, I knew Ludovico Einaudi years ago before he became famous for being repetitive. He was then a pupil of Berio's, and writing very elegant, harmonically sophisticated Berioesque stuff. He was a sweetheart.  Undecided

I see he gets his very own one man concert at the Barbican on 1 October, just him and a piano. Maybe a few earlier pieces might get snuck in. http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=7842
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