"New music is never beautiful on the first acquaintance."
Very nice video of the revolutionary composer himself talking about how it happens, and what the surrounding forces were…
Roscoe Mitchell, James Fei, William Winant
Unbelievable trio. Saw them perform fairly recently. Was thoroughly edified by Roscoe Mitchell. So glad there is a video of this piece.
How about a little Pete memory
He really made the effort and this is such a musically strange record...liberating in a certain manner...even when the delivery sometimes made me uncomfortable...
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!The Arthur Blythe Sextet!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of my favorite groups ever. Featuring Kelvyn Bell, one of my favorite guitar players in my favorite period! So driving! So interesting! So much there, given, in so many directions. If there is one major influence...
The Great Hymn of Thanksgiving
I saw this performed a couple of months ago at Zipper Hall.
Absolutely blew me away on so many levels and I had never heard of Rick Burkhardt.
GREAT HYMN OF THANKSGIVING composed by Rick Burkhardt from H.P. Mendoza on Vimeo.
Ellington and Joan Miro
Always been one of my favorite clips. Check the Ellington piano attack at the end!
And one more thing...couldn't just leave it at those 3 posts...
Just necessary to round everything out...
Ben Johnston: Wow. Beautiful. Brisk. Intent.
Ran into him and his quartet by accident up at school last year. It's been infecting my mind ever since...
One way to go...
This really needs no comment but, just so the unspeakable is not thought— that youtube vids are going up as a replacement for thoughtful comment, I'll say that this is really a great mature solution to some problems in musical thinking by a master of both electronic composition and acoustic. This is from 1989, but Davidovsky has recent pieces in the series from 2007.
Best of luck! Listen as if you are a fraud.
Petite Camusette- Arm in arm into the woods to...sleep?
Josquin; contrapuntalists beware! Rest of us are free to enjoy it within this supremely liberated state of ignorance...
Beautiful guitar action (Herve Sambe,) and the rest too
Stage full of heroes..
Evan Parker
Great clip. Other things to do with a saxophone.
C'mon- let's have a great guitar day!
Sonny, Sonny, Sonny...SHARROCK!
The natural guitar
Dan Oestreicher passed this on. It's really beautiful...relax and enjoy!
Luigi Nono: A Carlo Scarpa,architetto, ai suoi infiniti possibili
Infinite possibility and architecture. Wait until you are relaxed and no-one else is around...then turn it up and expand...there will be an infinity in that 10 minutes.
Petrassi- what a piece!
This isn't anything but a picture and the piece. Re-posting of youtube videos is a bit cheap.
Two written reviews of concerts are about to pop up so look out for that.
Meantime, this really is worth posting because it is the music of a composer that isn't too widely known. Take a listen- very novel approach and beautiful- and even humorous.