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TimR-J
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« Reply #1 on: 12:50:23, 01-07-2007 » |
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Absolutely gutted I'm not going to get to the first two of these because of conferences, but I should be at the third one.
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« Reply #2 on: 10:23:47, 03-07-2007 » |
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aaah yes-the Newman sonata is the piece i'd be very interested in hearing-No.6 was sheer tedium but there are some pieces (symphony no.2)which left a very strong impression.
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« Reply #3 on: 18:30:26, 03-07-2007 » |
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Yes looking forward to hearing from Newman.
Won't be there for the first concert this coming thur but should be there for the other two.
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« Reply #4 on: 18:37:27, 03-07-2007 » |
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Not sure if I'll make the second either, unfortunately, and the first is definitely out. But the third sounds like a definite.
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« Reply #5 on: 23:27:25, 03-07-2007 » |
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could be an unprecedentedly large audience at this rate!
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Bryn
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« Reply #6 on: 00:06:54, 04-07-2007 » |
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I want to go to all three, but getting there by 19:30 will be a bit of a gamble, let alone finding somewhere to park.
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« Reply #7 on: 13:58:25, 04-07-2007 » |
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Don't suppose that there's any chance of these concerts touring....  I'll have to see what my movements are like. |
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« Reply #8 on: 14:09:11, 04-07-2007 » |
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I'll have to see what my movements are like.
Oh dear, hh: I hope you're not turning medical... (Perhaps you'd better post the results on the 'Hypochpondria' thread.....) |
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Bryn
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« Reply #9 on: 19:36:39, 05-07-2007 » |
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Sorry, had to duck out tonight. Time, weather and traffic conspired to make it an non-starter for me. I do hope someone is at lest making some sort of recording of the proceedings.
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jamesweeks
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« Reply #10 on: 10:53:54, 06-07-2007 » |
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I don't think there was much recording going on, but the good news is that the Pisaro is the sort of thing you can do at home with some friends, so you needn't have missed anything!
Quite an interesting evening. Pisaro's The Collection is a whole load of the most minimal pieces - e.g. two chords on a piano alternated with each other twice, or a nearly-chromatic scale played a few times on a recorder, or a few harmonics for electric guitar, or someone opening a door and shutting it again 5 minutes later, or a glockenspiel bar bowed with a double bass bow a few times, or some nearly-inaudible electronic background-ish noise going on for a few minutes. Last night the pieces were minimally overlaid (about 6 of these items doing for a 20-minute stretch) and surrounded by large quantities of silence (up to 5 minutes at a time). They played the pieces spread out round the church, including behind screens and curtains, so the sound was essentially dispersed and disembodied. I only really got into the pieces, ironically, when I started thinking about something else - then I found they impinged quite beautifully on my interior mental space. I'm not sure quite how one was expected to listen, but certainly the sounds were too distant and faint to really immerse yourself in. These things take time to take effect - and the pews in the church were too uncomfortable to relax into the music.
So very Tenney-ish in material terms but a different feel, and not in the least processual. I started thinking I'd heard it all before, then ended up feeling glad I was hearing it all again. Pisaro is a Wandelweiser composer, by the way. He has integrity, it's worth hearing him.
There were also some nice harpsichord pieces interspersed, by 18thC composers Kelway and Roseingrave.
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« Reply #11 on: 20:36:00, 13-07-2007 » |
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Some great stuff on the EXAUDI concert -- the Lucier vocal piece ws quite something, really quite hard to engage after the piece by Schumann, but in the end it felt more like an inspired piece of programming. The 14th century mass is, again, something else. I've never dug around to find out more about 14th century English composers. Now I must do that.
The Lucier tape piece at the end ws pretty much er, 'dominated' by a woman sitting near me who, for some reason or other, simply couldn't stop containing her laughing whenever the piece got 'noizier'. How did she mange not to explode in laughter (or just explode) and start rolling out on the floor I'll never know? She became part of the performance for me.
Should be there next week.
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« Reply #12 on: 11:11:15, 21-07-2007 » |
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And so I ws there. Really good to hear the Newman, the most odd, hard-to-grasp piece; Frey and Nishikaze bought the muscular quietitude to town and only Maierhof ws slightly disappointing, not doing enough with the piano as noise machine idea.
Sad its all over.
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« Reply #13 on: 22:42:30, 21-07-2007 » |
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Completely forgot about this! (Although I wouldn't have been able to make it anyway on Thursday, as things turned out.  ) Was the Newman a new piece? Wonder if it'll make it on to Michael Finnissy's forthcoming disc of Newman piano music (on Mode)? |
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« Reply #14 on: 11:14:01, 22-07-2007 » |
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Its from 2001. An all Newman piano disc - great news! I haven't heard any of his music till thursday, so I'm eager to hear that now.
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