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“First, do no harm”

June 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Click Picks, Composers, Contemporary Classical, Performers, Piano

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YD6uu7dJ7I

Mauricio Kagel’s 1984 “Der Eid des Hippokrates” (”The Hippocratic Oath”), for piano 3-hands. Kagel wrote:
This aphoristic composition was inspired by the publication in January 1984, in a medical magazine, of an article on my latest work. Whiling away the time in hospital waiting rooms, I began to think about the generous Hippocratic oath. I could [...]

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Force of Nature - Frederic Rzewski Solo Piano UC Davis

May 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Click Picks, Composers, Contemporary Classical, Uncategorized

It’s sometimes said that composers are either German or French, and American vanguard one Frederic Rzewski, with his much vaunted admiration for Beethoven, is clearly on the German side.  But how could he not be when some of his composition teachers like Dallapiccola and Babbitt forsook a flowing lyric line for a jagged dramatic one, [...]

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Keeping Up Made Easy

March 21st, 2009 · 4 Comments · Classical Music, Click Picks, Contemporary Classical, News

Most S21 regulars know about these already, but for all our newer visitors I thought I’d mention how most of us keep on top of what’s what, day-to-day, in the classical and “non-pop” world.  The secret is to visit a few of the aggregation sites intrepid volunteers have set up, that comb the news sites [...]

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Time Machine

March 16th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Click Picks, Concerts, Contemporary Classical, Festivals

On this very page back in 2007, one of my ‘click picks’ told you about a great historic recording available to hear on the web: one of John Cage’s and Lou Harrison’s earliest all-percussion concerts, presented at the Cornish School in Seattle, May 19th, 1939. As I wrote in my earlier post:
The performers heard include Cage, his then-wife Xenia, and the [...]

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Casting a Wide Net for the Three Bs

March 2nd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Classical Music, Click Picks, Competitions, Concerts, Contemporary Classical, Music Events, Uncategorized

If you believe that the importance of the arts in these times is inversely proportional to the economic news, than there’s never been a better time for YouTube’s Symphony Orchestra. YouTube announced today the winners of the world’s first orchestra selected entirely through video auditions on-line, a process yielding more than 3,000 videos from all [...]

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Briefly Noted

February 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Awards, Classical Music, Click Picks, Contemporary Classical, Online

A couple quick bits passed along by S21 compadres:
Ed Lawes wants to remind every classical afficionado to take a gander at the Gramophone’s online archive. Literally every issue of the magazine is there, from 1923 (!) until today. If that doesn’t count as a fabulous resource, I don’t know what does.
And our favorite crusty uncle, Seth [...]

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You too can be the life of the party!

February 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Broadcast, Click Picks, Contemporary Classical, Online

Just imagine the impression you will leave with your guests, as you drop sparkling bon mots on combinatoriality, pitch accumulators, harmelodics, and gradual phase shifting!… If they haven’t fled for the door yet…
I’m really just reminding you that the American Music Center, as part of its absolutely wonderful and essential web-service Counterstream Radio, has the first [...]

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The Fecund Composer… Can You Even Say That?

February 11th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Click Picks, Composers, Contemporary Classical

I’ve been trying for maybe a more “genteel” word, but keep coming back to it… What I’m talking about is the composer, pianist and conductor Ketty Nez and her music. Born (1965) in Macedonia but quickly whisked away to the States, the whisking has continued through studies at Bryn Mawr, Curtis, Tokyo, UC Berkeley, Amsterdam and [...]

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Dakujem!

January 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Cello, Chamber Music, Click Picks, Contemporary Classical, Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqwsCoO1zxQ

After the split, there’s been plenty of attention paid to Prague and the Czech Republic; far fewer take notice of Slovakia and its capital, Bratislava. Strange, when you consider that the city is less than 40 miles from Vienna. That should tip you off that there just might be some serious music-making happening in Bratislava, and thanks to a [...]

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Heading North

January 20th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Broadcast, Click Picks, Composers, Contemporary Classical

Maybe it’s all that cold, dark and ice; stuck inside with nothing else to do for a lot of days must be conducive to composition. At least it feels that way with regard to Canada, since this huge but relatively sparsely-populated space has what seems a disproportionate number of composers that I just love.
And now the Canadian Music [...]

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