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2020-06-05 08:06:16
A sense of shimmering silence: music by the Catalan composer Josep Maria Guix on Images of broken light from Neu records
[…] the works on this disc (written during the last 12 years), rely on minimal gestures and subtle contrasts in timbre. The disc starts with Vent de capvespre for ensemble, the earliest piece on the disc. In four movements, each is inspired by a Japanese haiku by Yosa Buson (1716-1784), Takahama Kyoshi, (1874-1959) and Hattori Ransetsu (1654-1707), each evocative of landscape. The work was commissioned by the Fundació Caixa Catalunya, and won the Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award in 2010. The music has the same sense of concentration and spareness which you associate with a haiku, each gesture counting for a great deal. It starts out of from nothing, and remains evanescent and fragile, with each gesture telling. Though written for ensemble, this is not large scale music and Guix uses his range of instruments to give himself a wider palette of colours. This is music […]
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2020-01-07 16:48:00
Yuan-Chen Li: “Wandering Viewpoint”, Concerto for Solo Cello and Two Ensembles – Michael Kaufman, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra (HD 1080p)
[…] 2007), Soundbridges (Berlin, 2007), Norfolk Chamber Music Festival (Norfolk, 2007), Tune in to Taiwan 2003 (Taipei, 2003), New Ideal Dance Festival (Taipei, 2003), and Kuan-Du Musical Soiree (Taipei, 2001).Major honors and awards include an Artist Residency at the Omi International Art Center (2018), Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2010), grants from the Regional Arts and Culture Council, National Culture and Arts Foundation of Taiwan, the Ezra Laderman Prize, the Rena Greenwalk Memorial Prize, Finalist Martirano Award 2016 and ASU Gammage Beyond 2018, First prize of Literature and Art Creation Award (Taiwan), the Chang-Hui Hsu Memorial Prize of Asian Composers League, Study Abroad Scholarship from the Education Minister (Taiwan), and Scholarship of Arts from Tzu Chi Foundation. Recent commissions are such as from the Yale-Taiwan Music Group, National Performing Arts Center (Taiwan), ensembles such as Sound of Dragon Society, and soloists such as American saxophonist Jessica Maxfield, harpist Li-Ya Huang, […]
2018-03-09 20:00:07
John Adams Conducts Green Umbrella Concert at Disney Hall
The latest installment of the LA Philharmonic Green Umbrella concert series rolled into Disney Hall on Tuesday, February 20, 2018. Music by Julius Eastman, Anna Thorvaldsdottir and a premiere by Andrew McIntosh were performed. A screening of the iconic anti-war piece L’s G.A. by Salvatore Martirano, with live performance art by Ron Athey as Politico, […]
2018-02-21 07:11:31
Salvatore Martirano's hallucinatory anti-war piece L's GA, in which a narrator recites Lincoln's Gettysburg Address while inhaling nitrous oxide and helium, was given a potent revival tonight at an LA Phil Green Umbrella concert, with the performance artist Ron Athey...
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