Bookworms - "Let The Great World Spin" by Colum McCann

Helmut Lachenmann:  Intérieur I  for percussion soloist

for 10 or 12 players.
Either/Or and Carrick conducting
From Cycles of Evolution CD
New World Records.

www.richardcarrick.com

The Veins of Marble (Either/Or)

cittali

Goodnight Julia from <i>Cowboy Bebop</i>

Tenor Sax | Dan Heflin
Piano | Gary Der

Composed by Yoko Yanno
© Sunrise Music Publishing Co., Ltd.



Goodnight Julia

Poor Faye (High Socks/Lip Cream)

From CONCERTO FOR ORCHESTRA by Grammy-nominated composer Zhou Tian 

Commissioned by the Cincinnati Symphony
Duration: 35 minutes

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Concerto for Orchestra (Exp)

This piece is a marimba concerto that talks about deterioration and death. In its multiple instances of perpetual descending lamento, the audience is exposed to a world which is slowly dying, all the while observing its gradual decay.

The word Laibach is an old Germanic name for Ljubljana. It shares its name with the avant-grade Slovenian rock band from the 80', and also contains the name of the late composer J.S. Bach. The band was an inspiration for various foreign material quotation and recontextualization techniques, while Bach's Brandenburg concerto No.6 was the material that was manipulated and repurposed using algorithms. Thus baroque perpetuum mobile gets alienated from its original context and given a new perspective. It becomes an artifact of the times gone by, which we look back upon with a sentiment of nostalgia. 

This piece has been dedicated to my mother (and in a way to my whole family that has Slovenian heritage).

Laibach concerto je djelo koje govori o propadanju i smrti. U višekratnom ponavljanju neprekidno-silazećeg lamenta, publika je suočena sa svijetom koji polako umire i pritom promatra samog sebe kako se raspada.

Laibach je staro germansko imde grada Ljubljane. Svoje ime dijeli s avant-gardnim rock bendom iz 80', te ujedno sadrži ime pokojnog skladatelja J.S. Bacha. Band je bio inspiracija u vidu korištenja raznih tehnika citiranja i rekontekstualiziranja stranog materijala, dok je Bachov Brandenburški koncert bio materijal koji se manipulira putem algoritama. Tako je barokni perpetuum mobile postao otuđen od svog originalnog konteksta i stavljen u novu perspektivu. Time isti postaje artefakt minolog vremena na koji gladamo nazad s nostalgijom.
Ovo djelo je posvećeno mojoj majci (i na neki način cijeloj obitelji koja vuče slovenski korijene).

Laibach Concerto

Contempo at University of Chicago 
Logan Center for the Arts Performance Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
May 5th, 2017

Emma Hospelhorn, flute
Doyle Armbrust, viola
Russel Rolen, cello
Kyle Flens, percussion
Ben Melsky, harp
Michael Lewanski, conductor 

Program Note:
Without Air is based on a short story from Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics. In this collection, each story takes as its premise a scientific conceit ranging from astronomy and physics to geologic time. My favorite is set on Earth before the atmosphere had formed. Calvino describes this theoretical landscape as an undifferentiated grey expanse (much like our Earth’s moon), occasionally transfigured by bursts of color resulting from the contrail of a meteorite filtering the Sun’s light as it passes by. I love Calvino’s fanciful contrast of grayness and color, and have sought to render that opposition in music with dryness and resonance. The piece begins with short, brittle sounds: pizzicato strings, high harp, and a consort of wooden non-pitched percussion instruments. Over the course of the piece, small bursts of resonance accumulate into increasingly sustained music, culminating in a sonorous climax and coda. These final sections cast each of the musical ideas from the beginning in a new, resonant light.

cittali

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