Ezekiel Goodale News
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2019-07-04 09:13:00
From Persia with love
[…] in Konya in Anatolia, now part of Turkey. It is testimony to the power of genetic diversity that Rumi's migration provided the fertile soil from which his global reputation as a great transcultural figure grew. It is also deeply ironic that Rumi's spiritual education in the regions that are today Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran - all countries victims of recent American led 'intervention' - should lead to him becoming America's best-selling poet.British-Turkish pianist Joanna Goodale picks up on the themes of Bach, Sufism, cultural diversity and the elliptical motion of the Mevlevi dervishes in her new album Bach in a Circle. This juxtaposes vanilla Bach, including celebrated transcriptions by Busoni, Kempff and Siloti, with Joanna's own Sufi Bach improvisations inspired by the poetry of Rumi and the 13th century Turkish poet Yunus Emre. All too often this kind of project is more Bach/Sufi collision than Bach/Sufi fusion. But Joanna's […]
2019-07-01 09:28:00
Classical music must also tackle merit inequality
[…] welcoming Gustavo Dudamel and his Simón Bolívar circus as the saviours of classical music: for example Elizabeth Maconchy was profiled here in 2007, as was Elisabeth Lutyens. My collaborative appreciation with John McLaughlin Williams of Philippa Schuyler - double whammy of woman and musician of colour - has become a standard reference resource with enough page traffic to keep even Norman Lebrecht happy. While my recent posts on Missy Mazzoli, Laurie Anderson, Alice Coltrane, Joanna Goodale and Éliane Radigue have put the blog on the right side of the politically correct 50/50 target.Now that's enough hubris, let's cut to the chase. Of course classical music needs to correct the current gender inequality. But reality cannot be ignored. Quite wrongly women have been marginalised since classical music emerged as an art form. This means less classical music was written by women in the past, and fewer women musicians have emerged from […]
2019-06-19 08:05:00
Sufi Bach is trending
In response to my post Sufism, Islam, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid a contributive reader draws my attention to the album seen above which was released last week. Born in Switzerland to a British-Turkish family, pianist Joanna Goodale studied at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève with Dominique Weber, who in turn was a pupil of Léon Fleisher. Passionate about multidisciplinary projects, her first album unites Bach’s music with her own arrangements of Sufi chants from Turkey and Iran: its title 'Bach in a Circle' refers to the whirling of Turkish followers of Rumi. Watch an informative video which illustrates her use on the album of prepared piano sounds à la John Cage via this link. More on this admirable exercise in challenging classical comfort zones when I have lived with it for a while. New Overgrown Path posts are available via RSS/email by entering […]
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