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2020-06-20 08:59:24
A work usually starts with a conversation: I chat to percussionist Joby Burgess about new repertoire, collaborating with composers and playing during lockdown
[…] of Xenakis. Yet the strange thing is that, though the repertoire is young the idea of percussion is old, starting with simply banging rocks together. But whilst percussion in Western classical music dates from the 20th century, in other world musics it is very different. Since Joby has been playing, he has seen the percussion repertoire grow immensely. There were major figures in the past, and he mentions the Japanese percussionist Stomu Yamashta who worked with Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) and Hans Werner Henze (1926-2012) in the 1960s, and toured as a solo percussionist. But it is only more recently that percussion has been at the front of people's consciousness. As an interesting digression, Joby mentions that the first percussion concerto was written in 1916 by Darius Milhaud (1892-1974), whilst the first work for solo percussion is Zylkus written in 1959 by Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007). Whilst it […]
2016-04-23 11:17:28
I wish I could create music. Music as longing and bittersweet as Manazashi by Yamashita Kousuke, or as tempestuous as Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso by Camille Saint-Saëns. To translate the language of the soul into notes on a sheet. How I wish I could.
2015-10-04 21:49:27
As has already been announced, this month will mark the beginning of the landmark 35th Dynamite Guitars season organized by the Omni Foundation for the Performing Arts with the first event presented solely by the Omni Foundation. Things will get under way when Japanese guitarist Kazuhito Yamashita will play all six of Johann Sebastian Bach's solo cello suites in two back-to-back recitals on October 10 .
2015-05-08 12:26:18
Keith turns seventy today. For those reading this who are not familiar with him, Keith Jarrett is an American treasure, and one of the most important musicians alive today. He is among the most accomplished improvising musicians in history and we are fortunate that we live in the age of recording technology: we have a voluminous record of his career spanning nearly five decades that catalogs his development as an artist, as well as many of his experiments and side-projects. In addition to his stature now as senior jazz statesman, Keith is also an accomplished performer of classical music, with many recordings of Bach and Mozart, etc. as well as music of 20th century composers (including himself) to his credit. I realize that beginning a post with superlatives is contentious, but considering Keith and his life as a musician, it seems fitting to me – he has been nothing if […]
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