mjzee Posted April 30, 2010 Report Posted April 30, 2010 Graphs And Time first recording...my own Sonic Bloom is on the same disk! IDEAS Ives Harrison Coates Cage Beardsley Partch Carrillo Varese Rimsky-Korsakov American Festival of Microtonal Music (AFMM) Congrats to 7/4! Quote
Ron S Posted April 30, 2010 Report Posted April 30, 2010 Graphs And Time first recording...my own Sonic Bloom is on the same disk! IDEAS Ives Harrison Coates Cage Beardsley Partch Carrillo Varese Rimsky-Korsakov American Festival of Microtonal Music (AFMM) Congrats to 7/4! Double congrats! By the way, I had no idea that your last name is Rimsky-Korsakov. Quote
7/4 Posted July 10, 2010 Author Report Posted July 10, 2010 Edgard Varese, “Ameriques” and Morton Feldman, “Piece for Four Pianos” and “Five Pianos” performed by Bugallo- Williams Piano Duo and Friends (Wergo). On Oct. 28, 1972, one of the first and most memorable results of composer Morton Feldman’s long residence as UB’s “Varese Professor of Music” was the performance of Feldman’s otherworldly “Pianos and Voices” at a Creative Associate Concert in the Albright- Knox Gallery. The pianists were a New Music all-star team of Feldman himself, David Del Tredici, Julius Eastman, William Appleby and Lukas Foss, no less. It is, by all possible guesses, the same piece as the pedal-overtoned “Five Pianos” which, with less prominent humming, magically concludes the wonderful new disc by the Buffalo-formed Bugallo-Williams piano duo and their keyboard friends. The true star of the program, though, is Varese’s 1920 “Ameriques” which, in gigantic orchestra form, is one of the most magnificent and savage masterworks in all of modern music. In Varese’s own two-piano transcription discovered in 2004, it is an entirely different piece—jagged and of daunting difficulty but of the sort that Helena Bugallo and Amy Williams routinely attempt with neither hubris or difficulty but rather total nonchalance. more here An Intrepid Group Surveys an Idiosyncratic Composer But included among the three works in the hourlong concert was a fascinating, substantial discovery: Varèse’s arrangement for two pianos, eight hands, of “Amériques,” the first piece he wrote after moving to New York from France. more... Quote
7/4 Posted July 11, 2010 Author Report Posted July 11, 2010 Varèse Live on ICE. On Wednesday, July 7 at 7 p.m. EST, Q2 streams the music of Edgard Varèse, including the New York premiere of the 8-hand piano version of the iconic Ameriques. Hosted by WNYC's John Schaefer at the Yamaha Piano Salon, this sneak preview concert of Lincoln Center Festival's Varèse: ®evolution features musicians from the exciting ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble). Varèse: ®evolution at Lincoln Center Festival presents the entirety of Varèse's works over two evenings, with performances by the New York Philharmonic led by Alan Gilbert, the International Contemporary Ensemble led by the dynamic percussionist Steven Schick, So Percussion, Musica Sacra and the Oratorio Society led by Kent Tritle. Quote
7/4 Posted July 21, 2010 Author Report Posted July 21, 2010 Via Alex Ross' blog: Varese does jazz Quote
7/4 Posted December 22, 2011 Author Report Posted December 22, 2011 birthday boy....128 years old today. Quote
Leeway Posted December 22, 2011 Report Posted December 22, 2011 Worked my way back through the thread: very interesting! Have a bunch of Varese laying about here, got to play some over the holiday break. Quote
7/4 Posted December 22, 2011 Author Report Posted December 22, 2011 Varèse Live on ICE. Not only does this link still work, I can still download the free Varèse Poème Électronique ringtone courtesy of ICE. Enjoy! Quote
7/4 Posted November 16, 2012 Author Report Posted November 16, 2012 Density 21.5 for handbell solo Quote
7/4 Posted September 9, 2014 Author Report Posted September 9, 2014 Frank Zappa Referees Tribute to Edgard Varèse Tuesday, September 09, 2014 Q2 Music is thrilled to present an archival recording of the famous Frank Zappa-hosted concert of the music of Edgard Varèse, recorded April 17, 1981 at the now-defunct Palladium in NYC. Quote
mikeweil Posted September 9, 2014 Report Posted September 9, 2014 (edited) Great - thanks for that link! A good friend of mine still has hope Zappa's Varèse recordings with Ensemble Modern might be released, but for some reason his wife keeps sittin' on them. Edited September 10, 2014 by mikeweil Quote
7/4 Posted September 9, 2014 Author Report Posted September 9, 2014 Great - thanks for that link! A good friend of mine still has hope Zappa'a Varèse recordings with Ensemble Modern might be released, but for some reason his wife keeps sittin' on them. That would be nice, but we don't hold our breath. It's been many years. Too bad too, because this sounds great. I just finished listening to it. It even sounds like Zappa is conducting. Quote
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