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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Mezzo Susan Graham sings Ned Rorem’s ‘O do not love too long’ which caught me off guard in the middle of my casual listening last night. So exquisite. Text is by William Butler Yeats.
Always reblog Ned Rorem. God I adore his music.
George Crumb’s “Makrokosmos” looks just as cool as it sounds.
He has my favorite handwriting of any composer, I think.
(Source: awind-upbird)
Кондуктор более известный как композитор, композитор более известный как дирижёр - англичанин Оливер Нассен.
To your attention - part of one his orchestral pieces “Music for a Puppet Court 4. Puzzle 2”
I worked with Ollie Knussen this summer and had some wonderful times. In honor of that, I reblog this post!
“Pope’s Concert” from The Red Violin (Music by John Corigliano, performed by Joshua Bell).
For various—obvious—reasons, I’ve always associated this track with Susan Kay’s Erik, particularly Persia onward.
Also, one of the most delightfully obscene pieces of instrumental music in my library.
(Source: spindleshanking)
#OccupyStravinsky: "L'histoire du Soldat" At Zuccotti, Nov. 3rd, 5-6pm
Stravinsky’s timeless and haunting “L’histoire du Soldat” (“The Soldier’s Tale”), a parable for three actors and seven musicians, will be performed for Occupy Wall Street at Zuccotti Park by Broadway actors and New York musicians on Nov. 3rd from 5-6pm, with a possible additional…
Not really contemporary, but this may be of interest to some of you. :)
Krzysztof Penderecki - Polymorphia for 48 String Instruments (The Exorcist: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Polymorphia was originally composed in 1961 by the avant-garde Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki. It was also later used, in addition to several other Penderecki compositions, in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.
nyphil: (Don't) Lose Your Balance
On October 4, 1982, more than 5,000 people filled the sold-out Radio City Music Hall to experience the world premiere of Godfrey Reggio’s film Koyaanisqatsi — the title means “life out of balance” in the Hopi Indian vernacular. Featuring music by Philip Glass the film, which The New York…
Remembering a Giant
Today would have been the 86th birthday of Luciano Berio, who died in May 2003 (pictured here on the Orchestra’s 1968 tour). This curious and omnivorous composer had a very strong connection with the New York Philharmonic during the 1960s and 1970s, and was the subject of an online tribute in 2008 when the Orchestra performed several of his works, including the landmark Sinfonia, which the Philharmonic had commissioned and premiered 40 years earlier.
