ANALOG @ An die Musik Tomorrow Night

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409 North Charles Street
Second Floor
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
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Tickets $10/$5 students

PROGRAM
Frank Martin, Four Sonnets to Cassandra (1921)
Jason Taylor, Cold Blue Noodle (2000)
George Crumb, Sonata for Solo Cello (1955)
Toru Takemitsu, Toward the Sea III (1989)

INTERMISSION

Christian Wolff - Trio I (1951)
Jason Taylor, Winter Light: confessions in the rain (2005)
Arnold Schoenberg, The Sick Moon (1912)
Morton Feldman, The Straits of Magellan (1961)
Thomas Weelkes, Pavan for five viols
arranged by Jason Taylor (2009)

Feldman and ANALOG

ANALOG arts ensemble is pleased to be presenting a concert in Baltimore featuring "Our Man in Japan" guitarist and composer Jason Taylor.

We'll be playing some Feldman graph scores, among other things... stay tuned.

Durations I - 1962 recording

Durations I 1960-1
Don Hammond - Alto Flute
Don Butterfield - Tuba
David Tudor - Piano
Philip Kraus - Vibraphone
Matthw Raimondi - Violin
David Soyer - Cello

"My earliest recollection of music - I couldn't have been more than five - is my mother holding one of my fingers and picking out "Eli Eli" with it on the piano. Like almost everyone else, my early teachers were very bad. At the age of twelve, however, I was fortunate enough to come under the tutelage of Madam Maurina-Press, a Russian aristocrat who earned her living after the revolution by teaching piano and by playing in a trio with her husband and brother-in-law. In fact, they were quite well known in those days. It was because of her - only, I think, because she was not a disciplinarian - that I was instilled with a sort of vibrant msuicality rather than musicianship...

...Durations - a series of five instrumental pieces, for of which are recorded here. In "Piece for Four Pianos" and others like it, the instruments all read from teh same part - and so what you have is like a series of reverberations from an identical sound source. In "Durations" I arrive at a more complex style where each instrument is living out is own individual sound world.

In each piece the instruments being simultaneously, and are then free to choose their own durations within a given general tempo. The sounds themselves are designated.

The pieces, while looking identical on paper, were actually conceived quite differently. In "Durations I" the quality of the particular instruments together suggested a closely written kaleidescope of sound. To achieve this I wrote each voice individually, choosing intervals that seemed to erase or cancel out each sound as soon as we hear the next..."

Agree or Disagree?

“There is something rotten here, and we don’t have to go to Denmark to look for it. It’s not the public. That was always a lie. It’s not the mass media. A bigger lie. It’s not the capitalist system – another lie. It’s my colleagues. My fellow American composers. The most pedantic, the most boring, ungenerous bunch of human beings one can meet on an earth so crowded with the last men that hop and make it smaller and smaller. This earth, I mean.

It’s the college boys that are deciding what’s what in America. I’ll leave them with their judgement. I’ll leave America with my fame.” -- Morton Feldman

Do you agree with Feldman?
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Monday at Düsseldorf's Kunstraum (Alte Schmiede), Morton Feldman & Jürg Frey piano pieces on either side of Schubert's Winterreise as palette cleansers.

Listen here.

Morton Feldman, "Christian Wolff in Cambridge"