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listen listen an atonal nightmare of pretension pages home works updated 13 december 2015 101 18 8 17 elliott carter my review of the new disc of late works by elliott carter is up at burning ambulance as always be sure to peruse the rest of the site while you re there posted by steve hicken at 6 46 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels burning ambulance elliott carter john link reviews 24 7 17 beth levin my review of beth levin s new disc of romantic piano music is up at burning ambulance please check out the rest of the site while you are there posted by steve hicken at 6 48 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels burning ambulance reviews 9 6 17 miranda cuckson my review of miranda cuckson s new recording invisible colors is up at burning ambulance as always phil freeman does a great job of posting reviews articles including videos of some of the music on the album posted by steve hicken at 9 35 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels burning ambulance elliott carter miranda cuckson modernism 7 9 16 stemmingthetide bird composer ed windels in his newmusicbox post coming out as a 5 to 9 composer discusses among other things the historical precedents charles ives etc for composers making their living as something other than a composer i m in the same situation as mr windels though i ve thought of myself more as an unaffiliated composer than as a dayjobber the word he uses mr windels also mentions that for years he succumbed to the long standing and short sighted ideology that held that if you were not a full time composer 1 you are somehow less serious less committed and less worthy 2 this ideology is also behind the pernicious idea that composers writing on spec are taking opportunities away from the more serious composers those who get commissions who because of these commissions are more often full timers 3 at any rate it s my belief that there is a qualitative distinction between being an unaffiliated composer and a dayjobbing composer though there is of course significant overlap it may be that that distinction is more in play after the music is written 4 i ve recently had the feeling that i m writing better 5 music than i might have had things gone in other directions mr windels says he will discuss that and other aspects of the life of the dayjobbing composer in his next post i ll expand on the issue at that time the great bob shingleton in a post called music blogging itsover simultaneously discusses and belies the end of music blogging the bottom line they are not worth reading read the whole thing for context and elucidation the present post is a stab at reviving this blog and stemming the tide mr shingleton writes about i have ideas for several series of posts like the series i wrote to commemorate carter 100 it s difficult to fence off time to do those posts for reasons related to the first part of this post but the carter series was very valuable for me and i believe they had some value for at least a few readers here s hoping that itsnotquiteover 1 he includes composers with posts in academia as full timers nope 2 in my arrogance it never occurred to me that i was less worthy because i wasn t full time never 3 as mr preston asked will it go round in circles 4 then there is the phenomenon of the disaffiliated composer who can t get performances in her own hometown because institutions don t see what s in it for them to play music of unaffiliated locals 5 was going to put better in quotation marks fuck that posted by steve hicken at 6 13 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 28 1 16 watch that space earlier this week i launched a new website devoted to my compositional activities the site includes an about page which is basically a brief fairly uninformative biographical statement a works list an audio page titled in an inspired bit of cross promotion listen a gallery page look a contact form and a blog called read wait a minute you say you never post on this blog and now you ve started another one yes the blog over there will be devoted to items about the website itself and to news about my music over here here i ll continue to post reviews lists observations and reading recommendations as always thanks for listening posted by steve hicken at 6 00 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels administrative composition 16 9 15 in drones begin responsibilities anna thorvaldsdottir when i was an undergraduate the composition faculty issued an edict that until further notice we were not to use ostinatos 1 in the music we were writing for our lessons the professors clearly believed that we were using ostinatos and other techniques devices like tone rows 2 and drones 3 as crutches to automatically generate stretches of music some of whose details fairly set themselves down onto paper 4 by themselves i almost hurt myself rolling my eyes up in my head in response but i complied there is no doubt that these and other techniques can take over a composers music and that comp teachers do have a responsibility to guide and evaluate the student s technical abilities these techniques can in addition to generating large numbers of notes mask a great many compositional sins 5 on the other hand if the music works and that s a judgement best made by the composer with the assistance of the teacher there s no good reason not to use them 6 i started thinking about this subject when i first heard some music by anna thorvaldsdottir a few months ago when she was named the new york philharmonic kravis emerging composer drones are an essential component of thorvaldsdottir s art and she uses them in surprisingly different ways on her new disc in the light of air 7 the drones are used in service of a varied and artistically unified expressive landscape the sections of in the light of air each have titles that point to a measurement of physical condition luminance an existential condition existence and feeling states or states of being serenity remembrance that animate the sections so titled over the course of the 45 or so minutes of light thorvaldsdottir deploys her drones in surprising and expressive contexts illuminating the idea behind each section clearly and with style grounding each piece in rich earth though this is not quite a review of this disc i also wanted to say that transitions for solo cello played beautifully here by michael nicolas for whom it was composed is a very fine piece the performance of in the light of air by the powerhouse international contemporary ensemble is expert and expressive and both the blu ray and cd sound is superb 1 a short melodic fragment repeated throughout a piece or section of a piece an ostinato typically remains at the same pitch level and doesn t vary in other ways either 2 a series of notes actually pitches abstracted from any register that govern the pitch melody and harmony of a piece there are as many ways of doing this are there are composers doing it more probably 3 a continuous low sound 4 imagine those professors trying to deal with student composers using sequencers music composing notation software and the other music generating tools available today 5 in much the same way that a great number of footnotes can up the old word count and mask a possible lack of much to say 6 other than to make the professor s job easier 7 given a much fuller review by phil freeman here phil s perspective is very different from mine one that will be far more useful to most readers posted by steve hicken at 8 50 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels commentary composers composition 18 8 15 here and there flower carter boosey hawkes have posted an interview with noted composer and elliott carter scholar john link who has some important insight on how and why the composer developed his late late style in addition mr link lives up to his name with several carter resources www elliottcarter com www facebook com chronometros twitter com chronometros amphionfoundation org musochat on sunday evenings at 9 eastern any interested party may join in a virtual gathering at twitter under musochat to discuss contemporary classical music 1 and related subjects even if you can t participate in the discussions in real time the chats are available under the hashtag molly sheridan has more at newmusicbox quote this demure woman declared that making even one colored mark on a blank piece of newsprint should be an act of moral revolt more than a revolt an appeal for grace all human beings were due a full accounting but they had to ask for it art was a way of asking richard powers prisoner s dilemma p54 1 it happens that much of this past sunday s 16 aug 15 discussion centered on what to call this thing of ours whether that matters and why it probably does the sopranos reference is intentional because another art form filmed televisual entertainment often presents its best work on sunday nights and i believe that one way for us to engage with the contemporary world is to engage with other more popular art forms posted by steve hicken at 8 25 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels elliott carter future of our music john link links quotes richard powers older posts home subscribe to posts atom feedjit feedjit live blog stats about me steve hicken view my complete profile my facebook page my myspace page subscribe to posts atom posts all comments atom all comments search this blog followers links and resources stirling newberry basic music theory pitch class set indentification bach chorales sequenza21 the high hat new music box artsjournal chicago classical music labels 101 administrative alex ross anton webern art artists band music blogroll bob shingleton books 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