Name the composer: 50 Points Name the work: 50 Points
The winner(s) of each round will be the first person(s) with the correct answer(s) in each category. When the dust settles she or he with the highest combined score wins a prize.
posted by Tom Myron
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Jeff Porcaro's "Rosanna"
A few years back I had the pleasure of attending a drum clinic given by the great Dennis Chambers. One of the things he talked about was how you can make something your own by mastering & then varying something that someone you admire had done. By way of demonstration he played Jeff Porcaro's beat for Rosanna, followed by his own version of the beat, which he'd come up with when he sat in on that song one night at a Toto concert in, of all places, Vienna.
Here Jeff reveals how he came up with a beat that has entered the drumming canon. To paraphrase a composer I admire, "Different buildings, same stones."
posted by Tom Myron
Name That Tune 65
This is the sixty-fifth in a 100 part series.
Name the composer: 50 Points Name the work: 50 Points
The winner(s) of each round will be the first person(s) with the correct answer(s) in each category. When the dust settles she or he with the highest combined score wins a prize.
posted by Tom Myron
Name That Tune 64
This is the sixty-fourth in a 100 part series.
Name the composer: 50 Points Name the work: 50 Points
The winner(s) of each round will be the first person(s) with the correct answer(s) in each category. When the dust settles she or he with the highest combined score wins a prize.
posted by Tom Myron
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Snakes on a Desk
posted by Tom Myron
Name That Tune 63
Here is a NEW scan for #63. It contains a bit more information than the first one I put up. Bonne Chance.
This is the sixty-third in a 100 part series.
Name the composer: 50 Points Name the work: 50 Points
The winner(s) of each round will be the first person(s) with the correct answer(s) in each category. When the dust settles she or he with the highest combined score wins a prize.
posted by Tom Myron
Name That Tune 62
This is the sixty-second in a 100 part series.
Name the composer: 50 Points Name the work: 50 Points
The winner(s) of each round will be the first person(s) with the correct answer(s) in each category. When the dust settles she or he with the highest combined score wins a prize.
posted by Tom Myron
Monday, March 10, 2008
Lenny
Leonard Rosenman (September 7, 1924-March 4, 2008)
I got to know Leonard Rosenman in the early 80s through my teacher, Charles Fussell. Rosenman had written a new work, Chamber Music V, for a Pierrot ensemble plus two percussionists. Collage had done an earlier version of the piece in Boston and Lenny had made changes. Charles programmed the work for the UMass Faculty New Music Ensemble. I was recruited to cover one of the percussion parts. The faculty had decided that as both a composer and a percussionist I would benefit doubly from working with Rosenman. It's a decision for which I will always be grateful.
Having Leonard Rosenman at the Five Colleges was a big deal. Seminars were held. He brought in enormous spiral-bound scores to accompany tapes of the LA Phil playing his music. There was a two piano concerto, a double bass concerto, a big orchestral essay & a Lorca song cycle. His music floored me. It just knocked me out. It was wildly inventive, crackling with amped-up colors and ferocious dramatic gestures. Ligeti & Berio meet Stan Kenton and a good time is had by all.
When the tapes had all been played he sat in front of the group chain-smoking Camel straights. He said, "I'm just gonna ramble here, but you'll get something out of it." He was right. He knew it. He radiated astonishing charisma.
We performed Chamber Music V at all five colleges. After a rehearsal it was agreed that a group of us would go out to dinner. Since the week was a hectic one my girlfriend had loaned me her car, which happened to be a beautiful, brand new Honda sedan. When I sat down at the restaurant Charles said to me, "That's a nice car. Has something changed in your life that I don't know about?"
I said, "Not really. It's my girlfriend's."
Lenny laughed, blew some smoke around and slapped me on the back. "Kid," he said, "Your career as a composer is off to a perfect start."
posted by Tom Myron
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Name That Tune 61
Hey Ho, Let's Go. The Big 200-Pointer Here:
This is the sixty-first in a 100 part series.
Name the composer: 50 Points Name the work: 50 Points
The winner(s) of each round will be the first person(s) with the correct answer(s) in each category. When the dust settles she or he with the highest combined score wins a prize.
posted by Tom Myron
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Name That Tune 60
This is the sixtieth in a 100 part series.
Name the composer: 50 Points Name the work: 50 Points
The winner(s) of each round will be the first person(s) with the correct answer(s) in each category. When the dust settles she or he with the highest combined score wins a prize.
posted by Tom Myron
Name That Tune 59
This is the fifty-ninth in a 100 part series.
Name the composer: 50 Points Name the work: 50 Points
The winner(s) of each round will be the first person(s) with the correct answer(s) in each category. When the dust settles she or he with the highest combined score wins a prize.
posted by Tom Myron
Name That Tune 58
This is the fifty-eighth in a 100 part series.
Name the composer: 50 Points Name the work: 50 Points
The winner(s) of each round will be the first person(s) with the correct answer(s) in each category. When the dust settles she or he with the highest combined score wins a prize.
posted by Tom Myron