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Now, here's a prepared piano:
Isn't there a Volker Heyn piece w/ a suspended piano/pianist? Ian ... I think I remember looking at the score w/ you in the Buffalo library about 6 yrs ago or so. |
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« Reply #46 on: 23:10:17, 13-04-2007 » |
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Well, that's good news about the sweat. The problem with the Tipp-Ex wasn't a structural one so much as the fact that it was a bit embarrassing to leave our hosts with spots on their strings. Of course sonically and structurally it wouldn't have been a problem if he'd carved his name in the lid either, but it would still have been embarrassing.  |
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« Reply #47 on: 23:14:59, 13-04-2007 » |
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Agreed, Ollie. And let's hope this is a one off:  |
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« Reply #48 on: 23:15:32, 13-04-2007 » |
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two different performances of Cage's Fifth Sonata.
...Gérard Frémy
...Aleck Karis:
Pim I very much appreciate these soundfiles. The 5th is interesting. After one hearing I preferred Aleck Karis, but first impressions were that the piece could be performed by steel drums and other percussion I didn't like the 12th sonata but I'm going to re-visit them again in a few days. Thanks John W |
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« Reply #49 on: 23:33:59, 13-04-2007 » |
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Agreed, Ollie. And let's hope this is a one off: Ah, Depussy... |
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« Reply #50 on: 23:35:14, 13-04-2007 » |
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or is it Cat-achurian?
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« Reply #51 on: 23:41:15, 13-04-2007 » |
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Nah.
It's PURcell.
On which note, night all!
frogle. Sorry, martle.
(yikes, had to edit my own name. Again! It's getting bad now, it really is.)
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« Reply #52 on: 23:45:47, 13-04-2007 » |
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Isn't there a Volker Heyn piece w/ a suspended piano/pianist? The title is Did yer hear that?, and the piano was suspended in front of the Georg-Büchner-Schule in Darmstadt for the duration of the summer courses there in 1986. I'm sorry to have to admit that I missed the actual performance, which I don't think involves the piano being played (it was suspended at such an angle as to make this very difficult.) The production of Kagel's music-theatre piece Aus Deutschland I saw in Amsterdam in 1997 featured a stage set made entirely of pianos of various sizes, some real and some not. The picture doesn't really do justice to it, I'm afraid.  |
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« Reply #53 on: 23:54:10, 13-04-2007 » |
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As far as sets go, that has to be up there.
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« Reply #54 on: 00:05:08, 14-04-2007 » |
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I once heard this story about a pianist who was at one time well-known for his interpretations of avant-garde music. He arrived in a studio to record some piece or other which apparently asked for the pianist to sever one of the strings with a bolt-cutter, and asked the attending piano technician whether this would be OK, receiving a vehemently negative answer. During the course of the sessions he had occasion to strike and scrape the piano strings with various other objects, and accidentally slipped when scraping one of the bass strings with a knife, gouging a long groove out of the side of the instrument. The technician, arriving the next day to tune for the following session, noticed this with horror and launched into a rant at the pianist on account of a highly expensive grand piano being completely ruined, to which the pianist's reply was "... so would it be OK for me to use the bolt-cutter now?"
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« Reply #56 on: 00:25:03, 14-04-2007 » |
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Fabulous! Thank you, Richard, ... for the terrific anecdote, reminding me of the name of the Heyn piece, and for the absolutely wonderful photo of the Kagel.
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« Reply #57 on: 20:14:29, 14-04-2007 » |
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re:JW's avatar, I feel sure that Kenneth McKellar is in this combo just out of shot. Is this perhaps Cage at the
Glasgow Empire?
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« Reply #58 on: 20:19:08, 14-04-2007 » |
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...McKellar on/in prepared kilt perhaps.
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« Reply #59 on: 22:52:35, 14-04-2007 » |
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Wasn't Tippex a composer? - or have I got that wrong...(?!)...
Best,
Alistair the Unprepared
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