Modern Classical (2 Viewers)

[Cornu Ammonis]

Terry Riley is playing the Sugar Club with his son in October.

La Monte Young has finally reissued The Well Tuned Piano on DVD (over 6 hours long!) but it's not cheap. Just ordered it from SoundOhm, 88 quid!

 

[Burgerbarbaby]

That's great! I wish they'd release a life-size fold-out pop-up Dream House too.

Also, forgot to post this when I heard it, it's a lovely documentary about Henry Cowell and his work here.
The radical composer who changed American music - Lyric Feature

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

That's great! I wish they'd release a life-size fold-out pop-up Dream House too.

One of my life goals is to get to the Dream House to one of the Pandit Pran Nath memorial concerts while LMY and Marian Zazeela is still alive.

 

[Burgerbarbaby]

I went to one of those Just Alap Raga Ensemble shows in the Dream House in 2012. It was unforgettable. High summer, roasting, all windows closed and no a.c. because they were recording the performance. We (about 25 people) had to sit down on the carpet, and wait for about half an hour. Young and Zazeela and Jung Hee Choi and Naren Budhkar kinda floated in from their apartment like some kind of Space Cult, sat down and did an hour-long Alap (which I am told is the opening improvised section of a raga), which I don't have words to describe, and certainly words wouldn't do it justice. But it was certainly one of my favourite musical experiences. Then they floated out and that was it. Walking downstairs into the city again was one of the strangest experiences I've ever had. Surrounded by the purple Dream House light, sitting on a huge thick carpet, the smell of heavy incense, and the perfect music performed beautifully for a couple of hours, and then suddenly, back on the sweltering street listening to cabbies roaring at each other. They do a month of weekend performances every now and then...they're in the middle of one now, and I'm sure there'll be another one soon. Mela Foundation
I mean, if you're in a position to go to New York it's a huge highlight, well worth it. I had a gig, and thank the stars, it lined up with this show.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I’d build a New York trip around it. Generally I’ve little reason to go to the US so why not? I mean aside from the hassle and the expense.

 

[Burgerbarbaby]

I’d build a New York trip around it. Generally I’ve little reason to go to the US so why not? I mean aside from the hassle and the expense.

Ah why not is right!
I don't know of any other composer who is so rigorous, even Reich doesn't come close. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, but I love it...I think when a composer has that level of rigour it can make music extremely affecting.
Young is a dude who kinda drags you along with him...he generally explains what he's doing. I love that about him. The performance I went to came with a pretty exhaustive (exhausting, maybe) booklet of explanations and history and context, and even the maths. And the Tamburas of Pandit Pran Nath is the same. It's great because Young works in such a heavily classical field with huge heritage (both Western and Indian), which I and probably a lot of his audience would only be vaguely familiar with. So you really feel you're being focussed on the core of what he's about, and where the music comes from. There's also a bit of a chancer in him which I love too. He used to be a dealer to the Velvet Underground among others.

Another possibility for your potential visit: I don't know if he still does this, but he and Marian Zazeela used to do an "Indian Classical Music Lesson" in their apartment for about €300. Righteous

 

[pavlos]

Anyone looking at the Proms? This looks like it could be alright, not checked out the rest of it yet.

Prom 13: Pioneers of Sound

 

[Burgerbarbaby]

Anyone looking at the Proms? This looks like it could be alright, not checked out the rest of it yet.

Prom 13: Pioneers of Sound

Never really looked at the proms...I always associated it with plastic Union Jack hats. That's a cool lineup...I don't know most of them.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Gavin Bryars is performing The Sinking of the Titanic and Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet along with some other pieces at the NCH on the 26th November.

 

[rettucs]

Gavin Bryars is performing The Sinking of the Titanic and Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet along with some other pieces at the NCH on the 26th November.

that seemed to crash the NCH website so I'm guessing it sold out pretty quickly.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

that seemed to crash the NCH website so I'm guessing it sold out pretty quickly.

There seemed to be a problem with the online sales, the link to buy never went live. I rang the box office and ordered no bother.

 

[travispickle]

that seemed to crash the NCH website so I'm guessing it sold out pretty quickly.

I just got one on the website a short while ago

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

The Quietus | Features | Junk Shop Classical | Junk Shop Classical on Henryk Górecki: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP

The release of a new version of Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 with vocals from Portishead’s Beth Gibbons is cleverly timed, says Phil Hebblethwaite. When the piece was first a hit in the early-90s, it offered respite at a similarly turbulent moment in history

thequietus.com

 

[ernesto]

Max Richter is performing an eight hour piece overnight called ‘sleep’ at some festival in Carlow. Ticket price includes a tent. Can’t find a link due to hangover

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Was interested but Carlow and tent in Irish weather put me off.

 

[rettucs]

you're supposed to sleep through the 8-hour performance and let the music wash over you.

or you could just save your money and sleep at home.

I'd go to another gig like his last one here, but not sure about an 8-hour set.

 

[ernesto]

you're supposed to sleep through the 8-hour performance and let the music wash over you.

or you could just save your money and sleep at home.

I'd go to another gig like his last one here, but not sure about an 8-hour set.

Yeah big commitment and ticket price

 

[ann post]

I thought it was already performed in Ireland, must have imagined it.

I've listened to the whole 8 hours of it before. For that money I'd probably stay awake anyways just because its music.

its a good 8 hours, but the excerpts on their own are great things.

the risk of being awful weather puts me off too.

mad gig for a musician.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I thought it was already performed in Ireland, must have imagined it.

I've listened to the whole 8 hours of it before. For that money I'd probably stay awake anyways just because its music.

its a good 8 hours, but the excerpts on their own are great things.

the risk of being awful weather puts me off too.

mad gig for a musician.

They played excerpts from it at the NCH as part of a regular concert.

 

[ernesto]

‘‘As performed by The Max Richter Ensemble and soprano Grace Davidson’


The man himself won’t be there anyway