Comments on: Corigliano al dente

By: Jeremy Beck

Jeremy Beck — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:33:28 +0000

Jerry, just to clarify your parenthetical above, it is composer Jeremy Howard Beck who kindly assisted you with the information about the Corigliano. You and I haven’t been in touch about this particular topic. You may wish to update the reference above, so that all resulting links are consistent. Many thanks!

Jeremy Beck

By: Michael lee

Michael lee — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:55:54 +0000

I really quite enjoy the Clarinet Concerto, mainly because I am a student clarinetist and it is one of the more enjoyable concerti written for the instrument within the last 40 years or so.

By: Chris Becker

Chris Becker — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:12:00 +0000

Oh, brother. Well here’s another link Corigliano fans will enjoy, a profile that just went up of the soprano who will be singing “Mr. Tambourine Man” tonight here in Houston. http://tinyurl.com/3unv9wr

By: Jeremy Howard Beck

Jeremy Howard Beck — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:11:20 +0000

Richard,

Why the snark? Why do you feel the need to inform all of us of your dislike in the rudest, least genial way possible? Is your aim to persuade people of your point of view, or to get us to admire you?

You’re free to dislike whatever you dislike–I will defend to the death anyone’s right to dislike anything, and there is PUH-LEN-TY of music that most composers love that I personally can’t stand–but, frankly, there’s no need to be an a@$hole about it. We’re all in this together.

By: Richard Hertz

Richard Hertz — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:43:37 +0000

yeah jerry – get your sh!t together. (edit – you did get your sh!t together, good job!)

my favorite corigliano piece is john cage’s 4’33” because i would rather listen to “silence,” than recycled mahler.

By: Jeremy Howard Beck

Jeremy Howard Beck — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:42:43 +0000

Jerry, the concert is not a performance of the voice + piano version of One Sweet Morning. It is the world premiere of a new orchestral song cycle, for Stephanie Blythe and the NYPhil, which is titled One Sweet Morning, and the final movement of which is an adaptation of his previous setting of that poem. There are three other movements, with texts by Czeslaw Milosz, Li Po, and Homer. The texts all reflect on war and destruction in various ways, and the Harburg text at the end imagines a world without war. I’ve seen the score, and it looks to be an incredible evening, and a major new work. Please update with this info.

By: Chris Becker

Chris Becker — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:22:50 +0000

Can’t be there unfortunately, but it sounds like it’ll be a lovely work. More mezzo rep please!

There’s a new piece by Corigliano for electronics and soprano Hila Plitmann that has just been recorded. I look forward to hearing it!