Listen.: Review: David Guerrier/Steven Beck David Guerrier and pianist Steven Beck at Florida A M University s Lee Hall . Leonard Suite from On the Waterfront bolcom, william Songs of http://listen101.blogspot.com/2005/02/review-david-guerriersteven-beck.html
Extractions: @import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?blogID=8514964"); @import url(http://www.blogger.com/css/navbar/main.css); @import url(http://www.blogger.com/css/navbar/1.css); BlogThis! Review: David Guerrier/Steven Beck The following is reprinted, with permission, from the Tallahassee Democrat (25 February 2005). The portions in brackets did not appear in the original. The performance began with a stately reading of Arthur Honnegar's Intrada . Clarity of sound in all registers, ease of technique and a fine grasp of style marked Guerrier's playing in this piece - and throughout the concert. [I canât say for certain if Intrada was originally written for trumpet or if it was an arrangement, because the "program notes" included no information about any of the music, only exhaustive listing of the credentials of the performers, as if the recital was an interview for a position. Iâd rather be given an indication of why a composer wrote a certain piece, what to listen for in the piece, or why the performers were moved to perform it than to read a mind-numbing list of orchestras performed with, etc. ] Paul Hindemith wrote sonatas for virtually every instrument and the sonatas for winds, in particular, are at the center of the repertoire. The piano is an equal partner in these works, and the Trumpet Sonata is no exception. Beck's performance of the difficult piano part was as effortless, clean and musical as was Guerrier's trumpet playing. Their phrasing and sense of ensemble - an essential element in a performance of this piece - were excellent.
Listen.: Denk AC Douglas points to this exquisite post by pianist and latest Blogroll inducteeJeremy Leonard Suite from On the Waterfront bolcom, william Songs of http://listen101.blogspot.com/2005/06/denk.html
Extractions: @import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?blogID=8514964"); @import url(http://www.blogger.com/css/navbar/main.css); @import url(http://www.blogger.com/css/navbar/1.css); BlogThis! Denk A. C. Douglas points to this exquisite post by pianist and latest Blogroll inductee Jeremy Denk Mr. Denk's post includes some telling analytical comments about the ending of Elliott Carter's Piano Sonata (1945-46). I've commented in the past about the value of analysis for performers and listeners alike, and I wonder what Mr. Douglas, who is less amenable to analytical commentary, thinks of Mr. Denk's analysis. One more thing. I wonder how the piece of the score included (via photograph) in the post got that way. We're left with a mystery: Does the pedal ever get released? posted by Steve Hicken @ 11:05 AM Post a Comment 101 essential pieces of 20th Century concert music and perpetual variations on the musical life View my complete profile Basic Music Theory
Shepherd School Of Music - BRIAN CONNELLY BRIAN CONNELLY is recognized as a pianist of unusual range and accomplishment Carnegie Hall series Making Music in a tribute to composer william bolcom. http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~musi/facultybios/connelly.html
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Edward B. Marks Publishing From Music44 for the intermediate pianist that explore a variety of moods and textures . william bolcom Little Suite of Four Dances (Clarinet / Piano) for http://www.music44.com/X/products/Edward B. Marks Publishing
Extractions: This bright and joyful work by Joan Morris and William Bolcom takes its text from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham. Bringing in the many aspects of the Christmas season, it makes a fine feature for many types of concert programs. Here is a listing of related products . Includes piano accompaniment sheet music. Product Code: 8742611-H1 UPC Code: 073999426113 Old Product Code: HL08742611 Category: Chorals Series: Sacred Chorals Publisher: Edward B. Marks Publishing Company Composer: Joan Morris; William Bolcom Voicing: SATB Soprano.Alto.Tenor.Bass Pages: 8 Length x Width: 10.5 x 6.75 inches Shipping Weight: 0.25 pounds Simple Sketches for Piano This publication presents three thematically-related movements for the intermediate pianist that explore a variety of moods and textures. A playful Allegretto and a lyrical Andante are followed by Gigue-like Allegro spiritoso. Here is a listing of related products . Product Code: 220031-H2 ISBN Code: 0634027522 UPC Code: 073999773767 Old Product Code: HL00220031 Category: Classical Series: Piano Publisher: Edward B. Marks Publishing Company Composer: Norman Dello Joio Pages: 12 Length x Width: 12 x 9 inches Shipping Weight: 0.25 pounds
Sequenza21/The Contemporary Classical Music Weekly joined by pianist william Hobbs, gave a preview concert Saturday night in West Farley also was good in bolcom s Costa del Nowhere, set to a Richard http://www.sequenza21.com/2005/05/farley-liebermann-preview-london.html
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Lisa Coston / Oksana Lutsyshyn Recital In The Crazy Woman, a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks set by william bolcom The pianist was up to the challenge and the audience responded warmly to the http://www.artsongupdate.org/Reviews/Creo/Coston and Lutsyshyn.htm
Extractions: February 23, 2003 An art song recital and piano recital were combined into one program at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Virginia Beach, May 19, 2002. Two composers, Jeraldine Saunders Herbison and Andrey Kasparov, were in attendance to hear their compositions played by Oksana Lutsyshyn, a world-class performer, teacher and recording artist. She currently teaches at the Governor's School for the Arts and is music director and organist for this church. Her doctoral degree is from Moscow State Conservatory. After moving to the U.S. she was a Visiting Scholar at Indiana University in Bloomington. The program opened with two piano pieces by Herbison, who later commented that Lutsyshyn had found a way to shape her music that she had not known was in her piece. Certainly there were bell-like ringing tones in the piano that pleased this listener. Lisa Relaford Coston, mezzo-soprano, chose three songs on texts by American women composers, and caressed the musical lines with a warmth and energy rare on any stage. To a poem by Anne Bradstreet
Classical Action: Events:Archive Stephanie Brown and Cynthia Raim, composer and pianist william bolcom,mezzosopranos Marilyn Horne, Joan Morris, Emily Golden and Marietta Simpson, http://www.classicalaction.org/events/archive/
To The Best Of Our Knowledge - 97-03-30-C: Piano Variations pianist and composer william bolcom was a piano prodigy at age five. He tellsJudith Strasser that performing was never enough for him. bolcom is in demand http://wpr.org/book/970330c.htm
Extractions: Stations Comments To The Best of Our Knowledge from Wisconsin Public Radio It looks black and white, but the piano offers up a surprising array of shades and multicolored tones to the ear. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, it's the art of the piano. Also one performer explains how the instrument saved her life. SEGMENT 1 Pianist Jeffrey Siegel tells Jim Fleming about his "keyboard conversations," a series of subscription concerts he performs in seventeen American cities. Siegel aims to enhance his listeners' ability to hear and understand the classical keyboard repertoire. Also, fortepianist Melvyn Tan tells Jim Fleming how he turns the technical limitations of his instrument into an advantage in performing the music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. SEGMENT 2: Pianist and composer William Bolcom was a piano prodigy at age five. He tells Judith Strasser that performing was never enough for him. Bolcom is in demand all over the world as a performer and his compositions are heard and recorded widely. SEGMENT 3: Pianist Linda Katherine Cutting is the author of "Memory Slips: A Memoir of Music and Healing." She tells Steve Paulson how the piano became her refuge from an abusive father.
November 1998 Newsletter william Albright remembered. Remembrances by Bassett, bolcom, Lerdahl and Gompper . He was, as a colleague, a stunning pianist and organist as well as a http://www.societyofcomposers.org/data/publications/newsletter/issues/v28n09/
Extractions: Paul Griffiths, in the N.Y. Times caption of Bill Albright's death, reported: "William Albright, 53, Composer of Ragtime Music for the Organ." 53!! I have always thought of Bill as a young composer, and 53 still seems young to me. 53!! Aaron Copland once remarked that the public seemed to consider him (Copland) a young composer until he turned 60, at which time he became the Dean of American composers Bill was indeed a young composer. Young and blazingly gifted, similar to several other remarkable young composers who died at even earlier ages: Mozart, Chopin, Schubert, Pergolesi, Gershwin. Yet Bill would have soon turned 54 , just 3 years younger than Beethoven. We had hoped that Bill would still be composing at 65, the age of Bach or older, as with Wagner, or Vaughn-Williams, or Schoenberg, or Haydn, or Ives. Or still composing at 80, as was Verdi while creating Falstaff, or reach 90, as did Ross Lee Finney, or Eubie Blake at the century mark. "Wm. Albright, 53, Composer....."
Hampsong - Thomas Hampson's Music Weblog william bolcom (1938 ). image The eclecticism at the heart of American musictakes a A composer of songs, operas, and instrumental works, a pianist of http://www.hampsong.com/blog/ihas.php?id=P399
Extractions: INDEX A B C D ... E-Mail/Phones LAS Search Welcome About the College Academics Alumni Resources ... Student Resources LAS News Archives Around LAS LAS Research Music/ISU Theatre ... LAS Alumni News ISU News Research News The eighth and latest recording the Ames Piano Quartet has just released is unlike anything the resident chamber music ensemble at Iowa State University has ever done.
College Of Liberal Arts And Sciences At Iowa State University and tonal character of the Hoiby, the bolcom is a strikingly dissonant andpowerful work, said william David, pianist with the Ames Piano Quartet. http://www.las.iastate.edu/newnews/apqrecordings.shtml
Extractions: INDEX A B C D ... E-Mail/Phones LAS Search Welcome About the College Academics Alumni Resources ... Student Resources LAS News Archives Around LAS LAS Research Music/ISU Theatre ... LAS Alumni News ISU News Research News The Ames Piano Quartet , the resident chamber music ensemble at Iowa State, recorded its ninth compact disc earlier this spring. The CD is comprised of recently composed American piano quartets included the featured work, "Dark Rosaleen - Rhapsody on an air of James Joyce" by Lee Hoiby. This one movement, 20-minute piece was written especially for the Ames Piano Quartet in 2000. The Ames Town and Gown Chamber Music Association to celebrate that groupâs 50th anniversary commissioned it.
Concerts & Events Geoffrey Burleson is a remarkable pianist, a firstclass instrumental presencewhose of william bolcom and Arnold Weinstein, performed by two artists http://www.nyae.org/Pages/page22.html
Extractions: Perform on Wednesday, Feb. 16 Posted February 2, 2005 HOLLAND - The department of music at Hope College will present pianist Logan Skelton on Wednesday, Feb. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel. The public is invited. Admission is free. Skelton is a performing pianist as well as composer and teacher. He has performed in such festivals as the Gina Bachauer International Piano Festival, Eastman Piano Festival, New Orleans International Piano Festival and Indiana University Piano Academy. His compositions have been performed throughout the United States, and he recently released the first disc in a series featuring his work, "The Songs of Logan Skelton, vol. 1". In addition to performing his own works and classical repertoire, Skelton is dedicated to the works of contemporary composers. He has worked with many leading composers, including George Crumb, William Albright, John Corigliano, Bright Sheng and William Bolcom. His recent CD, "American Grab Bag: Piano Music of Our Time," features all 20th century American solo piano music. Skelton's performance at Hope College will include "Sonata in A-flat major, Hob. XVI: 46" by Franz Joseph Haydn, "Five pieces from Mikrokosmos" by Béla Bartók, excerpts from "The Garden of Eden" by William Bolcom and "Sonata in B minor" by Franz Liszt.
Brattleboro Reformer - Entertainment Resident Composer william bolcom, who will also have a work performed on Sunday To date, bolcom has been featured as pianist on nearly 40 albums, http://www.reformer.com/Stories/0,1413,102~8885~2995192,00.html
Extractions: Enter search term Advanced Search EMAIL ARTICLE LINK TO ARTICLE PRINT ARTICLE Article Published: Thursday, August 04, 2005 - 2:15:29 AM EST OTHER ARTICLES IN THIS SECTION 'Creative Economy' examined ATP changes one-act schedule BMC Music School taking fall enrollment Chris Smither sings the blues ... Weathervane launches singer-songwriter series Marlboro musicians say 'thanks' with town benefit concert MARLBORO For more than 40 years, the resident musicians of the Marlboro Music School and Festival have given an annual concert and all the proceeds to benefit area organizations. It has been their way of saying "thank you" to the area that has been their summer home since this special musical community was founded on the campus of Marlboro College in 1951. A tradition started by Rudolf Serkin, long-time artistic director and a Guilford resident until his death in 1991, the Town Benefit has provided funds annually for the Marlboro Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue. This year, additional beneficiaries will be the Marlboro Community Club and Brattleboro's Morningside Shelter. The Community Club and Morningside Shelter help families in transition, and provide assistance to the poor and homeless in a county that has one of the state's highest poverty rates. The concert will be given on Friday, at 8:30 p.m., at the intimate Marlboro College Dining Hall. In a diverse program, 15 of Marlboro's 75 resident artists, who come to Vermont for seven weeks from all over the world, will play works by Mozart, Resident Composer William Bolcom, the 19th century German composer, pianist and conductor of the famous Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Carl Reinecke and will close the program with Sibelius chamber music masterwork the String Quartet in D Minor, Opus 56, Voces Intimae.
