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En pistes, contemporains !
Matthew Owain Jones - Ensemble MidtVest

En pistes, contemporains !

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2024 14:36


durée : 00:14:36 - Matthew Owain Jones - Ensemble MidtVest - Principal ensemble de chambre du Danemark, l'Ensemble MidtVest enregistre sur ce disque paru à l'automne deux pièces du compositeur Matthew Owain Jones (son 1er quatuor à cordes "Deletia" et "Wind Quintet") ainsi que son arrangement pour ensemble de chambre du ballet Aladdin op. 63 de Carl Nielsen.

Le disque contemporain de la semaine
Matthew Owain Jones - Ensemble MidtVest

Le disque contemporain de la semaine

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2024 14:36


durée : 00:14:36 - Matthew Owain Jones - Ensemble MidtVest - Principal ensemble de chambre du Danemark, l'Ensemble MidtVest enregistre sur ce disque paru à l'automne deux pièces du compositeur Matthew Owain Jones (son 1er quatuor à cordes "Deletia" et "Wind Quintet") ainsi que son arrangement pour ensemble de chambre du ballet Aladdin op. 63 de Carl Nielsen.

Carrefour de la création
Matthew Owain Jones - Ensemble MidtVest

Carrefour de la création

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2024 14:36


durée : 00:14:36 - Matthew Owain Jones - Ensemble MidtVest - Principal ensemble de chambre du Danemark, l'Ensemble MidtVest enregistre sur ce disque paru à l'automne deux pièces du compositeur Matthew Owain Jones (son 1er quatuor à cordes "Deletia" et "Wind Quintet") ainsi que son arrangement pour ensemble de chambre du ballet Aladdin op. 63 de Carl Nielsen.

Braving the Stave
Upbeats: Season 4, Episode 14 (Christmas Cracker 2024)

Braving the Stave

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2024 40:06


Christmas Cracker 2024JJ and Haz bring on the 'hygge' with a homage to the wind quintet, bagatelles and boyfriends (Haz's), carols to cherish and avoid, 'disruptive' descants and a whole new genre of 'earnest kitsch'. Nadolig llawen, pawb!Support the showwww.artsactive.org.ukEmail a2@artsactive.org.ukTwitter @artsactiveInstagram artsactivecardiff Facebook artsactive#classicalmusic #stdavidshall #neuadddewisant #drjonathanjames #bravingthestave #musicconversations #funfacts #guestspeakers #cardiff

Brooklyn Free Speech Radio
Consider It Blacklit: Highlight of IMANI WINDS Quintet

Brooklyn Free Speech Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2023 26:19


Consider It Blacklit host Kim Singleton sits down with Monica Ellis, founding member of the wind quintet Imani Winds. Ellis discusses the performances and accomplishments of the group, as well as the representation of people of color in classical music.

Consider It Blacklit
Highlight of the wind quintet IMANI WINDS

Consider It Blacklit

Play Episode Play 28 sec Highlight Listen Later Nov 22, 2023 26:18


Host Kim Singleton sits down with Monica Ellis, founding member of the wind quintet Imani Winds.  Ellis discusses the performances and accomplishments of the group, as well as the representation of people of color in classical music.  www.imaniwinds.comStay connect to Consider It BlacklitInstagramhttps://www.instagram.com/consider_it_blacklit/Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/ConsiderItBlacklitX(Twitter)https://twitter.com/WeAreBlacklit

YourClassical Daily Download
Antoine Reicha - Wind Quintet: 1st movement

YourClassical Daily Download

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2023 8:54


Antoine Reicha - Wind Quintet: 1st movementMichael Thompson Wind QuintetMore info about today's track: Naxos 8.554227Courtesy of Naxos of America, Inc.SubscribeYou can subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts, or by using the Daily Download podcast RSS feed.Purchase this recordingAmazon

Hearing The Pulitzers
Episode 44 - 1986: George Perle, Wind Quintet IV

Hearing The Pulitzers

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2023 22:46


In this episode, Dave and Andrew discuss someone they know primarily as a music theorist. George Perle is celebrated for his theoretical work on twelve-tone theory and Alban Berg's music, but how does he stack up as a composer? And what do they think of the first woodwind quintet to win a Pulitzer?   For more information about George Perle, we recommend: George Perle, Twelve-Tone Tonality, 2nd edition (University of California Press, 1996). George Perle, The Operas of Alban Berg, Vol I and Vol II (University of California Press, 1989). Elliott Antokoletz, "George Perle: Man, Composer, and Theorist," Theory and Practice 33 (2008): 55-63. Steven Rosenhaus, "Harmonic Motion in George Perle's Wind Quintet No. 4" Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1995.

Take Note
2/16/23 - Kara LaMoure, The Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet & WindSync Wind Quintet

Take Note

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2023 29:25


On this edition of Take Note, we talk with Kara LaMoure. Kara is a member of The Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet and the WindSync Wind Quintet. We talk about her life as a musician and how schools can incorporate small ensembles into what they do to improve student learning and all music ensembles.

Voice of the Arts

Wind Quintet, Imani Winds joins WQED's Lead with Music Fellow, Kamera Dorsey, to discuss their work with Chamber Music Pittsburgh, critically acclaimed album “Bruits”, what keeps them going, and some nuggets of wisdom for the next generation of musical creatives!    To support the work of Imani Winds please visit: https://imaniwinds.com

YourClassical Daily Download
Carl Nielsen - Wind Quintet: Theme and Variations

YourClassical Daily Download

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2022 10:45


Carl Nielsen - Wind Quintet: Theme and Variations Oslo Wind Ensemble More info about today's track: Naxos 8.553050 Courtesy of Naxos of America, Inc. Subscribe You can subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts, or by using the Daily Download podcast RSS feed. Purchase this recording Amazon

BYU-Idaho Radio
BYU-Idaho Faculty Wind Quintet to perform in the Snow building tonight

BYU-Idaho Radio

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2022 2:14


Tonight, some of BYU-Idaho's faculty members are coming together to present a celebration of women during the Faculty Wind Quintet. The concert is tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the recital hall located in the Eliza R. Snow building on BYU-Idaho campus. You can also watch the concert online at byui.edu/music/events/watch-live Photo by Pixabay

Composers Datebook
Viktor Kalabis

Composers Datebook

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2022 2:00


Synopsis Today's date marks the birthday of a 20th century Czech composer you perhaps have never heard of. Viktor Kalabis was born in 1923 and by age 6, was giving public piano performances. All the signs pointed to a brilliant career. But first Kalabis had to face – and surmount–two major political hurdles. First, his formal musical studies were delayed by the Nazi occupation of his country in 1938, when he was forced into factory work; then, after the war, Kalabis met and married a young harpsichordist named Zuzana Ruzickova, who was a concentration camp survivor. Victor was a Gentile, but in Stalinist Czechoslovakia, anti-Semitism was rampant and marrying a Jew was frowned upon. To make matters worse, both Victor and Zuzana refused to join the Communist Party, hardly what one would call “a smart career move” in those years. Even so, Kalabis began to attract commissions and performances of his music at home and abroad, and following the 1989 Velvet Revolution, Kalabis assumed a more prominent position in his country's musical life. His symphonies, concertos, and chamber works are now regarded as some of the most important contributions to Czech music in the late 20th century. Music Played in Today's Program Viktor Kalabis (1923 – 2006) — Piano Concerto No. 1 (Zuzana Ruzickova, p; Czech Philharmonic; Karel Sejna, cond.) MRS Classics MS-1350 On This Day Births 1848 - English composer (Sir) Hubert Parry, in Bournemouth; Deaths 1887 - Russian composer Alexander Borodin, age 53, at a fancy dress ball in St. Petersburg (Julian date: Feb. 15); Premieres 1729 - Bach: Sacred Cantata No. 159 ("Sehet, wie gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem") probably performed in Leipzig on Estomihi Sunday as part of Bach's fourth annual Sacred Cantata cycle (to texts by Christian Friedrich Henrici, a.k.a. "Picander") during 1728/29; 1737 - Handel: opera “Giustino,” in London (Julian date: Feb. 16); 1740 - Handel: oratorio “L'Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato,” in London at Lincoln's Inn Field, with the premiere of Handel's Organ Concerto in Bb, Op. 7, no. 1 (Gregorian date: Mar. 9); 1814 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 8, in Vienna, with composer conducting; 1908 - Amy Beach: Piano Quintet, at Boston's Potter Hall, with the Hoffmann Quartet and the composer at the piano; 1913 - Walter Damrosch: opera, "Cyrano de Bergerac," at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City; 1915 - Miaskovsky: Symphony No. 3, in Moscow (Julian date: Feb. 14); 1940 - William Schuman: String Quartet No. 3, at Town Hall in New York City, by the Coolidge Quartet; 1945 - Amy Beach: opera "Cabildo," by the Opera Workshop at the University of Georgia in Athens, directed by Hugh Hodgson; The first professional production occurred on May 13, 1995, at Alice Tully Hall in New York City as a "Great Performances" telecast conducted by Ransom Wilson; 1947 - Hindemith: Piano Concerto, by the Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell conducting, with Jesús Maria Sanromá the soloist; 1947 - Peter Mennin: Symphony No. 3, by the New York Philharmonic, Walter Hendel conducting; 1949 - Elliott Carter: Woodwind Quintet, at Times Hall in New York City, at a new music concert of the National Association for American Composers and Conductors, sharing a program with Henry Cowell's Suite for Wind Quintet, Vincent Perischetti's "Pastorale," Richard Franko Goldman's Duo for Tubas, Ingolf Dahl's "Music for Five Brass Instruments," and a revised version of Carl Ruggles; "Angles" for seven brass instruments; 1949 - Wm. Schuman: Symphony No. 6, by the Dallas Symphony, Antal Dorati conducting; 1950 - Elliott Carter: Cello Sonata, at Town Hall in New York, by cellist Bernard Greenhouse and pianist Anthony Markas; 1958 - Peter Mennin: Piano Concerto, by the Cleveland Orchesttra conducted by George Szell, with Eunice Podis the soloist; 1984 - Libby Larsen: "Parachute Dancing" for orchestra, by the American Composers Orchestra, Tom Nee conducting; 1986 - U. Zimmermann: opera "Weisse Rose" (White Rose), in Hamburg by the Opera stabile; 1999 - Peter Lieberson: Horn Concerto, at Carnegie Hall, with soloist William Purvis and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Others 1885 - First documented American performance of Handel's Concerto Grosso in B Minor (op. 6, no.12), by the Boston Symphony, William Gericke conducting. Links and Resources On Viktor Kalabis Kalabis tribute (PDF)

Hoot 'n' Holler: A Podcast About the Ozarks
Episode 63 - The Opposite of Dissonance is Not Harmony But Oblivion

Hoot 'n' Holler: A Podcast About the Ozarks

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2022 93:57


We cover a lot of ground in this one folks: Aging, testing, thinking, Mutually Assured Destruction??? We talk about the new soon-to-be-official flag of the city of Springfield, Missouri; cognitive dissonance; Stories About Blevinses You Know; the class politics of COVID; cryptoarkansas; and wouldn't you know it, School is Out! The Planned Parenthood fire in Knoxville was ruled an arson. Donate to the Mountain Access Brigade to help folks seeking reproductive care in E. TN here: secure.actblue.com/donate/mountainaccessbrigade Support your Local Abortion Fund: Arkansas Abortion Support Network www.arabortionsupport.org/ Missouri Abortion Fund www.mofund.org/ Find an abortion fund or services near you: National Network of Abortion Funds abortionfunds.org www.patreon.com/hootnhollerpod @hootnhollerpod on Twitter and Instagram facebook.com/hootnhollerpod hootnhollerpod@gmail.com Theme: "When the Moon Comes Down in Blood" As sung by Reba Dearmore, Mountain Home, Arkansas on January 7, 1969. Cat. #0647 (MFH #709) in the Max Hunter Folk Song Collection at Missouri State University. maxhunter.missouristate.edu/songinforma…aspx?ID=647 Outro: "Wind Quintet, Op.26, IV Rondo" As composed by Arnold Shoenberg, performed by Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet and published by the Music in 1992. Reproduced under CC-by-nc-sa 4.0 license.

Classical WSMR - Florida's Classical Music Station
Punta Gorda Symphony Wind Quintet | Quintette pour instruments à vent - Vivace

Classical WSMR - Florida's Classical Music Station

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2021 7:20


Classical WSMR - Florida's Classical Music Station
Punta Gorda Symphony Wind Quintet | Quintette pour instruments à vent - Allegro con moto

Classical WSMR - Florida's Classical Music Station

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2021 7:49


Classical WSMR - Florida's Classical Music Station
Punta Gorda Symphony Wind Quintet | Quintette pour instruments à vent - Andante

Classical WSMR - Florida's Classical Music Station

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2021 6:13


Classical WSMR - Florida's Classical Music Station
Punta Gorda Symphony Wind Quintet | Nino Rota - A Time For Us

Classical WSMR - Florida's Classical Music Station

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2021 3:22


SoundLives
Episode 3: Valerie Coleman: Writing Music for People

SoundLives

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2021 49:55


Valerie Coleman is committed to storytelling through her music, no matter the idiom. NewMusicBox editor Frank J. Oteri talks with her about her early realization that she is a composer and what a composer's responsibilities are. To read a complete transcription of this podcast, visit NewMusicBox: https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/valerie-coleman-writing-music-for-people/

Ruach Breath of Life
3 Loeillet - Wind Quintet - Deep calls to deep

Ruach Breath of Life

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2021 2:20


3 Loeillet - Wind Quintet - Deep calls to deep by Ruach Breath of Life

Ruach Breath of Life
4 Loeillet - Wind Quintet - 4th Movement - Deep calls to deep

Ruach Breath of Life

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2021 1:17


4 Loeillet - Wind Quintet - 4th Movement - Deep calls to deep by Ruach Breath of Life

In The Moment: Segments
Summer With The Symphony: Dakota Wind Quintet Part I

In The Moment: Segments

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2020 32:10


In The Moment … June 15, 2020 Show 838 Hour 2 In this installment of Summer with the Symphony, we hear Dakota Wind Quartet, recorded at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church on November 10, 2019. Find us on: Apple , Spotify , and Google Play

The Works
Design Trust x Haw Par Mansion, artist David Altmejd & in the studio: Groove Wind Quintet

The Works

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2019 21:37


New Waves
In the studio with Arcadia Winds

New Waves

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2019 62:28


New Australian music performed by wind dynamos Arcadia Winds, recorded in Melbourne's Iwaki Auditorium.

New Waves
In the studio with Arcadia Winds

New Waves

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2019 62:28


New Australian music performed by wind dynamos Arcadia Winds, recorded in Melbourne's Iwaki Auditorium.

From the Top
Show 344 | East Stroudsburg PA

From the Top

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 64:08


From East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, this week's From the Top features more than 100 young musicians from across Mainland China in their first ever public performance as the National Youth Orchestra of China under the direction of Maestro Ludovic Morlot. We hear the full ensemble perform "Rhyme of Taigu" by Pulitzer-Prize-winning composer Zhou Long, a young clarinetist shares how he fell in love with the clarinet's sound at his first concert, and five members of the ensemble perform the energetic first movement of Francis Poulenc's Sextet for Piano and Wind Quintet with Christopher O'Riley.

Classical Break
Cambini's 1st Wind Quintet

Classical Break

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2017 17:46


Believe what you want about his life, Cambini's music is interesting enough.

Classical Break
Taffanel's Wind Quintet, Part II

Classical Break

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2017 16:14


The champion that wind instruments deserved, Paul Taffanel

Classical Break
Taffanel's Wind Quintet, Part I

Classical Break

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2017 13:35


An innovative player meets an innovative instrument and writes an innovative piece.

New Waves
Elizabeth Younan and Arcadia Winds - Shoreditch Grind

New Waves

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2017 27:21


Composer Elizabeth Younan and Arcadia Winds recorded in concert and interview at the 2017 Musica Viva Festival.

New Waves
Elizabeth Younan and Arcadia Winds - Shoreditch Grind

New Waves

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2017 27:21


Composer Elizabeth Younan and Arcadia Winds recorded in concert and interview at the 2017 Musica Viva Festival.

Tollans musikaliska
Tonsättaren Ruth Crawford Seeger – pionjär inom musikalisk modernism

Tollans musikaliska

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2017 32:20


När den amerikanska tonsättaren Ruth Crawford Seeger är mellan 29 och 31 år komponerar hon de verk som långt senare ger henne en rättmätig plats i musikhistorien som en nyskapande tonsättare. Ruth Crawford föds i Ohio 1901 och utvecklar en kompositions­stil som ingen an­nan i världen har gjort tidigare. Efter ett Guggenheim-stipendium i Europa reser hon hem och gifter sig med den 14 år äldre musikvetaren Charles Seeger. Hon föder fyra barn: Mike, Peggy, Penny och Barbara och tar även hand om tre barn från Charles Seegers första äktenskap, bl a den le­genda­riske folksånga­ren Pete Seeger. Även Mike och Peggy Seeger är välkända folkmusiker.Det trista är att hon sam­tidigt slutar tonsätta sin egen mu­sik. När hon dör 1953, endast 52 år gammal, har hon just börjat komponera igen. Det gör tra­giken ännu större och kvinnan Ruth Crawford Seeger en utmaning att försöka förstå.Hennes man gör först klart sitt förakt för kvinnliga tonsättare: "Din lilla kvinnosjäl som du kuvar genom att vara den mest manlige av konstnärer - musikern". För sina barn för­klarar Charles See­ger barn att "kvinnor inte kan komponera symfonier".Senare blir dock Charles Seeger Ruth Craw­fords starkaste stöd och de arbetar in­ten­sivt till­sammans med idéunderlaget till hen­nes komposi­tioner. Ruth Crawford går inte sällan emot hans teore­tiska este­tik. Trots att han varnar henne för att skriva för stråkar ger hon sig i kast med den stråkkvartett som kommer att bli hennes främsta komposition.Ett annat märkligt och vackert stycke, banbrytande med sitt pulserande kluster, är  To A Kind God av den då 29-åriga Ruth Crawford.  Hon tonsatte stycket redan 1930 - 20 år innan denna tek­nik skulle få sitt genombrott i Tyskland i det vi idag kallar en fullständig serialism. Verket skriver Ruth Crawford faktiskt i Berlin som den första kvinnliga tonsät­taren att erhålla ett Guggenheim-stipendium. Först 60 år senare får To A Kind God sin ur­premiär, nämligen 1994 vid Aldeburghfestivalen.Vad är det då som gör detta stycke musik så enastående för sin tid? Jo, själv kal­lade hon det dissonant musik. Ruth Crawford hade aldrig hört ös­ter­ländsk mu­sik, t e x buddistiska munkars meditationer, men hade fått dem be­skrivna av Charles Seeger som "ett komplext dis­sonant ljud-flor". Hon skriver här en slags världsmusik och hon vill an­vända ord ur nå­gon en­gelsk över­sättning av den indiska Bhagavad Ghita, men hon finner ingen och löser upp­gif­ten genom att skapa egna ord. Hon uppfin­ner både kon­so­nanter och voka­ler. I To A Kind God skri­ver Ruth Crawford in 12 rös­ter, en för varje ton i den väster­länd­ska skalan, och i styc­kets klimax hörs alla to­nerna samtidigt. En slags sam­mansatt mass-tonart.I ett brev till tonsättarkollegan Vivian Fine samma år som hon skrev To A Kind God - 1930 alltså - uttrycker Ruth Crawford sin besvikelse över romantik, neoklassi­cism, amerikansk mainstream-symfonisk jazz och tolvtonsättaren Arnold Schönbergs cerebrala övningar: "Här i Europa hoppas jag finna en stor tonsät­tare som frodas ur en mylla av både konsonans och dis­sonans. En mäktig musik som inte enbart är torrt in­tellektuell utan även bär en djup enkelhet - en känsla om man vill använda det ordet - som knyter an till vanliga män­niskor lika myc­ket som till de intel­lektuella".Denna dröm-tonsättare skulle bli Ruth Crawford själv som med några få verk, komponerade mellan 1930 och 1932, skriver in sig i musikhisto­rien, inte enbart som en av USA:s främsta tonsät­tare utan även på en central plats inom hela 1900-talets musi­kaliska litteratur. Stråk­kvartetten från 1931 räknas som hennes mästerverk.Sin tidiga musik beskrev Ruth Crawford som ett "träd av ljud och klangfärger". Nu ville hon ha horisontella linjer, "reda ut tilltrass­lade nystan och finna en tråd i en hög av rot­lösa, trädlösa löv". I formen bäddade hon in rika mönster vilka hon jämförde med komplext designade persiska mattor. Men liksom det i dessa mattor vävdes in små defekter och förskjut­ningar kom­po­nerade Ruth Crawford in en och annan asymmetri. Hon var noga med att beskriva skill­na­den mellan sin "dissonanta kontrapunktik" och den samtida euro­peiska seria­lis­men. Hon listade sina ideal: skriv klara me­lodiska linjer, undvik ihopklibbande rytmer, använd ryt­misk självständighet mellan de­larna, skapa en känsla av tonalt och rytmiskt cen­trum och expe­ri­mentera med varierande typer av disso­nanser.Hennes mor, Clara Crawford, hade tagit Ruth till hennes första pia­nolektion och blev hennes starkaste supporter och tuffaste kritiker. Modern tillhörde den tidiga vå­gen av femi­nister som strävade efter, och slutligen uppnådde, ekonomisk oav­hän­gighet. Ruths mor var pionjär - en av de första kvinnliga stenogra­ferna och var t ex irriterad över att Robert Schumann "blev bossen i huset när Clara Wieck gift sig med ho­nom".Men Crawfords levde i en tid då det, precis som under Clara Schumanns liv - 70 år tidigare - ansågs att "den känslomässiga delen av kvin­nan stred mot den krea­tiva pro­cessen i musikska­pandet". Ruth Crawford kallade sig al­drig någonsin för kvinnlig tonsättare och var inte medlem i The Society of American Women Composers. Kollegan Charles Ives skrev att "en god dissonans är som en man". Och tidigt ansåg kritiker att hennes musik hade manliga kvaliteter: djärv och viril. Men i sin dagbok skrev hon ti­digt ner sin mammas råd (Mamas Advice): "dölj all­tid dina stygga tan­ker, var stolt över din blyghet och se till att andra har det bra i ditt sällskap, lägg dig inte i grannens bu­si­ness, vi le­ver för andras skull och ta hänsyn till andras käns­lor." I dagböc­kerna be­skri­ver Ruth Crawford "brännande, irriterande och otåliga" käns­lor. Senare sina de­pressi­oner.Ruth Crawford föredrog målaren Corot framför den idylliske ljus­skil­draren Monet. Hon skriver: "I en målning måste finnas balans mellan skugga och sol; inte en­bart ly­ses mörkret upp av lju­set utan genom denna kontrast bestrålar mör­kret även ljuset."Music for Small Orchestra från 1926 skall spelas långsamt, grubblande. Med tritonus- och kvartsintervall relate­rade till Scriabin och fagott-fragment ur Stravinskijs Våroffer. Hennes vän, tonsätta­ren och astrologen Dane Rudyar, talade om symboliken i en enda ton "som en levande cell där makro­kosmos speglas i mikrokosmos; en enda cell som kan avslöja alla univer­sums myste­rier". Från öster­ländsk musik stammade denna idé. Och Ruth Crawford anammade det eso­teriska och my­tiska. I Chicago upplevde hon ett andligt och spiri­tuellt svärmeri för sin pia­nolära­rinna Djane Lavoie Hertz och 27 år gammal dedicerade hon sina pianopre­ludier till "Djane, min inspiration." Genom henne kom Ruth Crawford i närmare kon­takt med ryske tonsät­taren Scrabins teosofi, mysticism och spiritualism, som funge­rade som ett slags pre-freu­dianskt sätt att få kontakt med sitt undermedvetna. Tyvärr upp­fördes al­drig Music for Small Orchestra under Ruth Crawfords livstid.1928 var Ruth Crawford med och startade Chicagoavdelningen av Inter­national Society for Contemporary Music och hennes Three Songs med texter Carl Sandburg representerade USA 1933 vid ISCM:s festival i Amsterdam.Ruth Crawford klipper sitt hår kort, flyttar till New York och inleder en tät vänskap med tonsättaren Marion Bauer, den första amerikanska eleven hos Nadja Boulan­ger i Paris. Marion Bauer stöttar henne och gör klart för Ruth Craword vilken stor ta­lang hon är. "Min kära underbara Marion" börjar ett brev. "Marion har befriat mig", ett annat. "Jag skriver igen och jag komponerar". Med Marion disku­terar hon ska­pande och sexualitet. Ruth är oskuld och lever i celibat trots att hon när­mar sig de 30. "Visst kan du sublimera", säger Marion, "men den fysiska akten kan full­bordas på ett vackert sätt, som en symbol."Senare funderar Ruth på arten av henne och Marions relation. I Ber­lin hade Ruth upplevt den helt öppet homosexuella kultu­ren under Weimarre­publikens sista skäl­vande dagar och nätter och skriver: "Med Marion var det som att bli förälskad. Vår förbindelse hade kommit mycket nära ett erotiskt uttryck, men vi delade på oss istället för att starta detta lesbiska pro­jekt."I New York bosätter sig Ruth på gångavstånd till Carnegie Hall och Metropolitanoperan. Hon kommer i kontakt med den nyaste musiken av Copeland, Gershwin, Varèse, Duke Elling­ton och Bessie Smith. Hon går på konserter med verk av Rachmaninov, Hindemith, Schönberg, Brahms, Wagner, Bach, Béla Bártok, Carl Ruggles och mannen som uppfann en av de första synthesizrarna - Leon Theremin.Snart enga­gerar sig hennes make Charles Seeger i "musiken som ett va­pen i klasskampen" och förlorar in­tresset för mod­ernismen. Han komponerar revo­lu­tionär musik, antar pseudonymet Carl Sands och är mest på marxistiska möten. För Ruth är det omöjligt att ersätta deras tidiga musika­liska intimitet med den proletära kultur­rörelsen. Hon förlorar sin musa. Hon kompo­nerar inte längre.1952 skriver Ruth Crawford Seeger sitt sista verk, Suite for Wind Quintet, vars inledande ostinato återkallar början på andra satsen av det verk hon 1932 brände originalnoterna till: Sonat för violin och piano. Ruth Crawford Seeger insjuknar och dör i magcancer precis som hennes mamma gjort. Och resten är en öronbedövande tystnad.Programmet är inspirerat av Judith Tick's stora biografi Ruth Crawford Seeger - A Composer's Search for American Music från 1997. Judith Tick är professor emerita vid Northeastern University i Boston, USA. Musiklista:Rose, Rose and Up She RisesRuth Crawford, sång White MoonRuth CrawfordDawn Upshaw, sopranMargo Garret, pianoNONESUCH 7559 79364 2 To A Kind GodRuth CrawfordAmanda Pitt, sopranJeanette Ager, AltJames Wood, dirigentNew London Chamber Choir, damkörRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997 String Quartet 1931, Sats 3, AndanteRuth CrawfordInstrumentalister ur Schönberg EnsembleRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997 Andante for StringsRuth CrawfordChristoph Von Dohnanyi, dirigentCleveland Orchestra String Quartet 1931, Sats 1 Rubato AssaiRuth CrawfordInstrumentalister ur Schönberg EnsembleRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997 Music for Small Orchestra IIRuth CrawfordOliver Knussen, dirigentMedlemmar Ur Schönberg EnsembleRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997 Rat Riddles, ur "Three Songs" med texter Carl SandburgRuth CrawfordOliver Knussen, dirigentLucy Shelton, sopranInstrumentalister ur Schönberg EnsembleRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997 To An Angel, för kvinnokör och sopransoloRuth CrawfordAmanda Pitt, sopranJeanette Ager, AltJames Wood, dirigentNew London Chamber Choir, damkörRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997 Piano Study in Mixed AccentsRuth CrawfordReinbert De Leeuw, PianoRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997 String Quartet 1931, sats 4Ruth CrawfordInstrumentalister ur Schönberg EnsembleRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997 Suite for Wind Quintet, sats 1 (Svit för blåsarensemble)Ruth CrawfordInstrumentalister ur Schönberg EnsembleRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997

Focus on Flowers
Reicha And The Wind Quintet

Focus on Flowers

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2016 2:00


“No description, no imagination can do justice to these compositions...the admiration of the musical world."

Music and Concerts
Irving Fine Romanza for Wind Quintet

Music and Concerts

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2015 10:34


Dec. 2, 2014. "The President's Own" U.S. Marine Band Woodwind Quintet performs the Romanza for Wind Quartet by Irving Fine as part of the Library's celebration of the composer's centenary. For more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6713

Music and Concerts
Irving Fine Partita for Wind Quintet

Music and Concerts

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2015 18:02


Dec. 2, 2014. "The President's Own" U.S. Marine Band Woodwind Quintet performs the Partita for Wind Quartet by Irving Fine as part of the Library's celebration of the composer's centenary. For more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6712

Classical Classroom
Classical Classroom, Episode 24: You do what for a living?! Chamber music with WindSync wind quintet

Classical Classroom

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2013 21:02


Chamber music, performing live as a group, and how movement informs music! In this episode, WindSync wind quintet talk about all of those things and about life as a touring group. Hotel rooms are trashed (okay, not really)! Miley Cyrus is discussed (very probably)! WindSync gets schooled by tango (definitely)! Audio production by Todd “Ermahgerd” Hulslander with “help” from Dacia Clay. For more about WindSync, go to www.windsync.org.  For more about Classical Classroom, go to www.classical917.org/classroom. Love our shows? Show us by donating a few bucks here: bit.ly/UQweya. Donations contribute directly to your own continued audio happiness! Music in this episode includes performances by WindSync!: Leonard Bernstein (arr. WindSync), Overture to Candide Astor Piazzolla (arr. WindSync), Histoire du Tango Cafe 1930 Gallo Ciego (w/ Hector Del Curto on bandoneon)

Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcast
Salon Concert - Five Guys Wind Quintet

Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2013 54:59


On the program are the quintet for winds Op. 43 by Carl Nielson and Samuel Barber's "Summer Music"  woodwind quintet. Recorded On: Saturday, May 4, 2013

Music at DePaul
Allegro Vivace from Wind Quintet in C major, Op. 79

Music at DePaul

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2009 3:55


National Gallery of Art | Music
Ma'alot Wind Quintet: Mendelssohn, Ligeti, Barber, Piazzolla, and Joplin

National Gallery of Art | Music

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2009 54:20