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Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: The Great American Piano Sonata
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on: February 19, 2016, 08:37:02 am
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I guess Truscott’s 22 and Hoddinott’s 13 are the major most recent British cycles. Bax and Bridge stand out for me, but does anyone actually play them?
Apologies for off-topicness, but I would say that John White's 177 is the major British cycle. I played five of them myself a couple of weeks ago. Jonathan Powell plays many of them (another of his CDs of them is imminent). He also plays the Bax and Bridge, the latter in London a few months back.
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Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: The Great American Piano Sonata
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on: February 18, 2016, 06:20:17 am
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There's plenty of Ives besides the Concord. How about Gershwin, Cage (not just for prepared piano), Feldman, Ruth Crawford, Dane Rudhyar . . . Yes, there's tons of Cowell. Composer-pianists? Those still with us include Rzewski and Riley.
Adams, anyone? (Not for me). Wuorinen? Noooooo!
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Assorted items / Concerts / London concert in honour of Tilbury and White
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on: December 23, 2015, 10:04:37 am
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A shameless plug for a concert I'm doing at 6.30 pm on Friday 29th January at Schotts recital room, 48 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7BB
It's in honour of John Tilbury and John White (both born 1936)
Programme to include
Cornelius Cardew - A law of history Dave Smith - Stuck with Robert, Zytnia, Kübler and Koblet, I fought a monster today John Tilbury - 3 Beatles arrangements John White - Sonatas nos 78, 100, 111, 135 + 136
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MEMBERS' CORNER / Miscellany / Re: What are the most annoying things about modern composers?
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on: September 06, 2015, 11:31:14 am
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In which case, this may be of interest to you:- Uploaded on May 3, 2010 In this 1937 silent home movie, mostly shot by Gershwin himself, can be seen Arnold Schoenberg, and his wife Gertrud, Gertruds brother Rudi Kolisch (of the Kolisch string quartet) and Doris Vidor and a few brief glimpses of Gershwin himself. The musical extract accompanying the video is the beginning of Schoenbergs String Quartet no.4 Op.37, written in 1936, in a 1937 recording by the Kolisch Quartet that was sponsored by George Gershwin. Gershwin and Schoenberg were also tennis partners in Hollywood, and this film was taken on Gershwins tennis court at Roxbury Drive, Beverley Hills. Also included on this short video is a photograph of Gershwin at work on his famous oil painting portrait of Schoenberg, accompanied by Schoenbergs moving tribute to Gershwin recorded July 12th 1937, the day after Gershwins untimely death at the age of only 38. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cn1L_cgHPYAnother titbit - http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195327113.003.0072
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ARCHIVED TOPICS / In-depth discussion of selected compositions / Re: A 5 minute gem from 1970
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on: June 08, 2015, 04:12:25 pm
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No, I'm not into choral evensong! But out of all the music I heard written by students at that time, that seemed to have most going for it. He (John Merrick) was enthusiastic about such composers as Scriabin and Szymanowski at the time. This might be evident from the harmony which I would have thought had as much non-British ancestry as British. Pardon me, but certainly not Finzi (ugh!). As far as I know, its only ever been performed twice - the second time was in Gloucester a couple of years back. He didn't take up a musical career however.
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