Today’s playlist was one of my all-time favorite operas: Mozart’s “The magic flute.” All in all, it was a bright and cheery way to start the Sunday before Christmas.
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There is a particular two-chord pattern that develops towards the end of Palais de mari that caught my attention early on. It reminded me of conscious breathing.
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One of the first things I noticed in learning Palais de mari is that I had to count constantly. The fact is that rhythm is deceptively hard in Feldman.
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When I was sixteen, I was a Gershwin fanatic. I revisited some of that music today after a thirty-year-plus hiatus.
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After my previous post on Cage’s Cheap imitation, I have been thinking more about the piece and doing some poking around. Here are some random thoughts about it.
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I’ve started working on Morton Feldman’s Palais de mari, and I plan to do a number of posts on this piece as it sinks in. And I’ll start at the beginning, writing about the nature of opening ideas in late Feldman.
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This Sunday morning’s playlist was a single piece: Cage’s Cheap imitation.
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I’ve been playing Feldman’s Intermission 6 lately. Here’s my take on how to play the piece.
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This Sunday’s playlist starts with one of my favorite horror movie piano scores: the Bach-Brahms chaconne.
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We were in DC and visited the Rothko show at the National Gallery of Art. It’s a must-see.
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