mmm021 Sunday, October 7, 2012
21st music(ian's) meeting (October 7, 2012)
Attendees:
tENT
Ben Opie
Rob
Ben arrives
tENT talks about getting Visionstation & home entertainment equipment given to him & wondering where he's going to squeeze it in
tENT shows Ben "Ben Opie" the silent movie he made for Sync'd 5 that Ben'll be playing the soundtrack for
Ben talks about Willem Breuker Collective performance at CMU - their last tour in the US
Rob arrives & shows great Dali in bed foto w/ Dali having some sort of light ray emitting device on top of his head, he also shows a foto of a "song-o-meter" in action measuring the loudness of kids' singing & a foto of a woman wearing a potato chip bra made for some convention or some such!
Rob talks about the bk he's reading about John Cage entitled Where the Heart Beats & reads about?/from? it
Talking about Cage & Cunningham
tENT plays the beginning of Charles Atlas' movie entitled Merce Cunningham - A Lifetime of Dance
tENT plays the beginning of Timothy Carey's movie entitled The World's Greatest Sinner w/ music from the very young (21?) Frank Zappa
THANKS BRAINPANG FOR SENDING THIS!
Rob talks about Zappa's sense of his work being all one big piece, ie: his sense of continuity
tENT plays the beginning of the "Who is Rufus Harley" DVD about a jazz bagpiper THANKS BRAINPANG FOR SENDING THIS!
Rob plays his new music video "Theme for Jeff Bernadini"
Rob plays parts of City of Glass - Stan Kenton plays Bob Graettinger
tENT is very impressed by this music & wants to seek out more!
Ben talks about Graettinger's music + Irwin Chusid's bk Music in the Key of Zero wch has a chapter on Graettinger
tENT shows another Finnadar record - hearkening back to the previous mm where Ilhan Mimaroglu was featured - Mimaroglu published Finnadar - this LP was from George Flynn on piano
Ben plays a little of the Into Outer Space with Lucia Pamela CD - she's also in the Chusid bk
tENT plays the beginning of a Frankie Capri video - he was a PGH musician/showman who usta play at the Liberty Bell & the Lava Lounge, sortof an Elvis imitator, but not really..
tENT plays all of Ligeti's "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra"
tENT plays a little of George Russell's "Electronic Sonata"
Ben plays "Not of this Earth!" the film music of Ronald Stein - once again demonstrating that some good music was made for some pretty shitty films such as The Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (wch I certainly remember from my childhood) - a better film that he did the soundtrack for being Spider Baby (aka Cannibal Orgy)
Ben tells us that the 1st Talking Heads show in PGH was in a pizza shop at Forbes & Craig that only held about 30 to 50 people - ditto for the Ramones
Ben leaves
tENT plays some of the Enclosure Two: Harry Partch CD set that Ben loaned him - probably to show him an even better collection of Partch songs than the one on New World (w/ Cage on the flip side) that Spat had mentioned
tENT plays his own "Sequence 117b: Upper 3 Revivified Vibes Driver (augmented)" from 1997 - a sampler piece he made using samples of him playing vibraphone - positively perky!
Rob has been proposing a Schoenberg mm so he & tENT discussed this. As some of you know, tENT recently spent a considerable amt of time recording 21 cassettes worth of Schoenberg's music organized in chronological order. Having done this, he has a group of favorites.
Therefore, tENT proposes this selection:
FAVORITE SCHOENBERG WORKS
tape 1 (120 minutes), side 1:
*13v2 * Verklärte Nacht [Transfigured night], Op. 4 (1899) LP (boxset: vol 2)
*14v1 * 8 Brettllieder [8 Cabaret songs] (1901) LP
tape 1 (120 minutes), side 2:
*15v2 * Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5 (1902/03) CD
tape 2 (120 minutes), side 1:
*20 * 6 Lieder [6 Songs] with orchestra, Op. 8 (1903/05) LP (boxset: vol 5)
*24v3 * Kammersymphonie [Chamber symphony] no. 1, E major, Op. 9 (1906) CD
tape 2 (120 minutes), side 2:
*27 * String Quartet no. 2, F-sharp minor (with Soprano), Op. 10 (1907/08) LP(s)
*30v2 * Fünf Orchesterstücke [5 Pieces for Orchestra], Op. 16 (1909) LP
tape 3 (120 minutes), side 1:
*31 * Erwartung [Expectation], monodrama in one act, [for soprano and orchestra], Op. 17 (1909) Library CD 26:45 - Sir Simon Rattle conducting the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group w/ Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano
*32v1 * Drei Kleine Stucke (akaThree Little Orchestra Pieces) (1910) LP (filed under: Mainstream) - 2:41
*35 * Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke [6 Little piano pieces], Op. 19 (1911) LP
*36v2 * Herzgewächse [Foliage of the heart] for Soprano, Op. 20 (1911) CD
tape 3 (120 minutes), side 2:
*37v3 * Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21 (1912) CD (v3 - 3: English)
*39 * Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen [Songs of a Wayfarer] (arr. 1920: voice, flute, clarinet, harmonium, piano, 2 violins, viola, violoncello, double bass, percussion) Library CD 16:30
tape 4 (90 (it cd've been 74) minutes), side 1:
*42v1 * Serenade, Op. 24 (1920/23) LP - 31:23
tape 4 (90 (it cd've been 74) minutes), side 2:
*45 * Suite for Piano, Op. 25 [the arrangement of Brahms' "Piano Quartet in G minor" is also identified as "Op. 25" so that must be the Brahms opus #] (1921/23) LP - 15:34
*52v1 * 3 Satiren [3 Satires], Op. 28 (1925/26) + Anhang LP (boxset: vol 6) - 13:36
tape 5 (74 minutes), side 1:
*53 * Suite, for septet, Op. 29 (1925) LP (boxset: vol 6) - 25:26
*61 * Begleitmusik zu einer Lichtspielszene [Accompanying music to a film scene], Op. 34 (1930) LP; CD [this latter is just a rerelease of the former] - 8:24
tape 5 (74 minutes), side 2:
*65 * Suite in G major for string orchestra ("In the Old Style") (1934) LP (boxset: vol 5) - 27:10
tape 16 (120 minutes), both sides, of the overall retrospective:
*63 * Moses und Aron [Moses and Aaron], opera in three acts (193032, unfinished) LP (boxset)
tape 7 (74 minutes), side 1:
*70 * Violin Concerto, Op. 36 (1934/36) LP - 33:41
tape 7 (74 minutes), side 2:
*77v1 * Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte for Voice, Piano and String Quartet, Op. 41a (1942). Musical setting of Lord Byron's poem of the same name. LP (boxset: vol 7) - 15:32
*78 * Piano Concerto, Op. 42 (1942) LP - 21:46
tape 8 (60 minutes), side 1:
*81 * I am almost sure, when your nurse will change your diapers (for Artur Rodzinsky on the birth of his son Richard) (Bärenreiter XXVIII) (March 1945) (4 voices) LP (boxset: vol 8) - 1:13
*82 * Prelude to Genesis Suite for Chorus and Orchestra, Op. 44 (1945) LP (boxset: vol 2) - 5:24
*83 * String Trio, Op. 45 (1946) LP (boxset: vol 7) - 21:33
tape 8 (60 minutes), side 2:
*84 * A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46 (1947) LP - 7:15
*85v1 * Phantasy for Violin and Piano, Op. 47 (1949) LP (boxset: vol 7) - 8:35
*90 * Modern psalm, Op. 50c (1950, unfinished) LP (boxset: vol 8) - 5:37
A mere 862 minutes or 14 hrs, 22 minutes!! We cd probably stretch that over 5 mms!! Waddya say, folks?! Alright, that's probably too much for everybody but I'll do it if anyone's game. On the other hand, we cd pick a side of tape to play every once in awhile. Also, we cd check out the entire (unfinished) opera "Moses und Aaron" wch I, tENT, have a copy of.
to the mm index
forward to mm 22
backward to mm 20
to the tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE movie-making "Press: Criticism, Interviews, Reviews" home-page
to the "tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - Sprocket Scientist" home-page
to the "FLICKER" home-page for the alternative cinematic experience
to find out more about why the S.P.C.S.M.E.F. (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Sea Monkeys by Experimental Filmmakers) is so important
for info on tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE's tape/CD publishing label: WIdémoUTH
to see an underdeveloped site re the N.A.A.M.C.P. (National Association for the Advancement of Multi-Colored Peoples)