Not even with all the fingers on all the hands of all the people in the city of Chicago could you count the possibilities offered by just three instruments. Gyorgy Ligeti, Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano (1982); Tomas Major (violin), Zora Sloka (horn), Denes Varjon (piano), 2009 Part 1 *** Part 2 ********** lagniappe art beat: [...]
Archive for the ‘horn’ category
Thursday, 4/26/12
04/26/2012Tuesday, 3/13/12
03/13/2012Music doesn’t care who you are, where you come from, what you know. It asks only that you pay attention. Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972), Piece in Three Parts for Piano and Sixteen Instruments (1961), Peter Serkin (piano), Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (Oliver Knussen, cond.) More? Here.
Saturday, 12/10/11
12/10/2011If sounds define a space as much as walls and windows, you don’t need to knock out a wall to open up a room—just play this. International Contemporary Ensemble with Steve Lehman Impossible Flow (S. Lehman), live, New York (Le Poisson Rouge), 4/19/11 The moment this ends I want to hear it again. Is there [...]
Friday, 10/14/11
10/14/2011Happy (Belated) 70th Birthday, Lester! Lester Bowie, October 11, 1941-November 8, 1999 trumpet player, bandleader, irrepressible spirit Lester Bowie Brass & Steel Band, Umbria Jazz Festival (Italy), 1996 Part 1 *** Part 2 *** Part 3 *** Part 4 More? Here. And here. And here. And here. And here. ********** lagniappe musical thoughts Jazz is [...]
Saturday, 7/2/11
07/02/2011Here’s a different take—one deeply indebted to Lester Bowie—on the brass band. Dave Douglas & Brass Ecstasy DD, trumpet; Louis Bonilla, trombone; Vincent Chancey, horn (AKA French horn); Marcus Rojas, tuba; Nasheet Waits, drums “Bowie,” recording session (Spirit Moves, 2009) *** “Spirit Moves,” “This Love Affair,” “Twilight of the Dogs” Live, Washington, D.C., 2009 ********** [...]
Wednesday, 4/14/10
04/14/2010Originally, Morton Feldman was commissioned to compose the score for the film [Something Wild], but when the director heard the music, he promptly withdrew his commission, opting to enlist Aaron Copland instead. The reaction of the baffled director [Jack Garfein] was said to be, ‘My wife is being raped and you write celesta music?’ —Wikipedia [...]
