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« Reply #195 on: 22:14:57, 01-05-2008 » |
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I'm hoping to get to the ICA on May 8th. Will give me an excuse to spin Bitches Brew over this bank holiday !
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« Reply #196 on: 22:34:07, 01-05-2008 » |
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Agreed martle, I'm going to go and get my copy and put it on now.
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« Reply #197 on: 22:41:28, 01-05-2008 » |
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Good on yer, Andy. The problem with doing a gig 'centred around' a seminal piece of work such as BB, though, is that it stands no chance of being as good - only of shedding a bit of light on WHY BB is that good. If we're lucky.  Although I'm mightily looking forward to these concerts. My shades are polished already.   |
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« Reply #198 on: 22:53:11, 01-05-2008 » |
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Bitches Brew has also been spinning here recently in preparation for next week and will undoubtedly be again before Thursday. I'm mightily looking forward to these concerts. My shades are polished already.  "Two-octave spread? Wazza problem man?" I gather from Member Barrett speaking on the wire-less just now that I really ought to have another go at On the Corner sometime as well.
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« Reply #199 on: 00:48:49, 02-05-2008 » |
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Would have loved to have gone to both events, but I've been asked at the last moment to stand in for four concerts in Germany next week, doing concertos of Dusapin and Ravel, so whilst working that around teaching committments, being there is not an option at all. Look forward to hearing about them!
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« Reply #200 on: 01:27:07, 02-05-2008 » |
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I gather from Member Barrett speaking on the wire-less just now that I really ought to have another go at On the Corner sometime as well.
Oh! someone was listening! Thanks G. (Gosh! live radio is a bit scary, you can't ask the producer to edit things out, it's almost like playing music.) On the Corner seems not to go down too well with most Miles cognoscenti, and it's almost more a piece of electronic music than a jazz record - the mixer is used as an instrument in a way Miles himself said was inspired by his listening to Stockhausen, added to which you can hear the influence of Ornette Coleman as well as Sly Stone and James Brown, all of which creates a unique mixture, for me a distillation of many of the things I find most exciting about his music, and his most radical musical statement. |
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« Reply #201 on: 01:41:50, 02-05-2008 » |
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I've been asked at the last moment to stand in for four concerts in Germany next week, doing concertos of Dusapin and Ravel Ooh, that sounds exciting, Ian! |
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« Reply #202 on: 03:04:05, 02-05-2008 » |
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Would have loved to have gone to both events, but I've been asked at the last moment to stand in for four concerts in Germany next week, doing concertos of Dusapin and Ravel, so whilst working that around teaching committments, being there is not an option at all. Look forward to hearing about them!
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« Reply #203 on: 09:23:55, 02-05-2008 » |
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Mazel tov Ian. Ta. (Which Ravel? Both?) LH. OK, one and only plug, in case anyone is in the vicinity: the concerts are with the Dortmunder Philharmoniker, conducted Bernhard Kontarsky, on the 5th, 6th and 7th May in the Konzerthaus Dortmund, beginning 8:00, then on the 10th at the Philharmonie Essen (Saalbau), also starting 8:00. Full programme: Dusapin Assai, À Quia, Ravel Un barque sur l'ocean, Concerto pour la main gauche, Boléro. |
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« Reply #204 on: 14:00:21, 07-05-2008 » |
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Would like to hear your Ravel, Ian, one of my faves, not least for a bit of stomping about after a day like last thursday moreorless segue the Boulez gig of which I caught the second half matchsticks propping open the eyelids(but rapidly unecessary with the aforementioned Notations groove-brilliant stuff).
Sorry I missed you GG, Opi, Strina. Will try and get to ICA Friday -excellent to
see it was promo'd on Resonance and sorry I missed that.
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« Reply #205 on: 23:28:10, 07-05-2008 » |
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The ensemble "notes inégales" at the ICA, featuring a green pianist, on Thursday 8th and Friday 9th A little 'bump' for this, for anyone in the south east finding themselves at a loose end tomorrow or Friday (and not at the Nono on Friday). Having given the greater part of last weekend and today (a 'warm-up' concert in Denmark Hill) to this project, I can confidently predict that you will be wowed by all these players (with the exception perhaps of the green pianist, whose hands seem hopelessly addicted to Bill Evans). If you thought the tuba was a dull instrument, for instance (BBM please take note), I can recommend the experience of hearing Oren Marshall making it sound variously like a drain, birdsong, a piccolo, a tempest, badly-tuned AM radio, a lion and the funkiest bass instrument known to man. |
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« Reply #206 on: 05:52:57, 08-05-2008 » |
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toitoitoi martle, I am sure it will be a resounding success.
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« Reply #207 on: 20:44:27, 08-05-2008 » |
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They're having a Boulez festival at Birmingham Conservatoire tomorrow with a bit more on Saturday morning. The highlight must surely be tomorrow at 2-15: "A chance to hear Boulez in his own words, as interviewed by Roger Wright (Controller, BBC Radio 3). Following the Interview, there will be an open forum." Two men you love to hate for the price of one I'm probably going to the lunchtime concert: Takemitsu: Signals from Heaven Holliger: Engführung from Übungen zu Scardanelli Messiaen: Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum |
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« Reply #209 on: 21:42:33, 08-05-2008 » |
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Has there ever been a better name for a musician than "Marco Blaauw, trumpet"? |
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