Check out Brant's *Ice Field*, which you should be
able to hear right here --> http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Brantmusic.shtml
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Patrick,
>
> As a former architect, you might be intrigued by Henry Brant's blueprint
> for the positioning of the 3 orchestras performing and his aesthetic
> statements which appear on the screen while you listen to "Trinity of
> Spheres". I wish more youtube videos provided such pertinent material.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcCEbzZFzdk&feature=related
>
>
> Barry
>
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:03:12 -0000, Patrick McManus <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >Thanks Wow just heard part of 'Orbits' like a storm thrashing - gosh those
> flashlight are a bit bof a pain
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Barry Alpert
> >Sent: 17 March 2011 16:38
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Snap That Maverick Composer
> >
> >I've heard of Brant for years, Hal, but have never had a chance to witness
> a concert of his works. Have been listening to his compositions via youtube
> this morning and would like to experience the spatial positioning in person.
> I wrote about Lou Harrison on this occasion because the "confluence"
> articulated by the Post-Classical Ensemble was available to me without major
> difficulty or expense, and I had been introduced to his music many years ago
> by two young composers who had studied with LH, Peter Garland and Paul
> Dresher.
> >
> >Thanks, Doug & Hal, for assuring me that what I wrote was presentable. I
> wonder when I revise as much as I did on this occasion.
> >
> >Barry
> >
> >
> >On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:26:09 -0600, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>I've never found Harrison's music all that interesting, actually.
> >>Too much languorous orientalia for my liking.
> >>Try Henry Brant.
> >>
> >Hal
> >>
> >>
> >On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:17:52 -0600, Douglas Barbour <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >>Despite the difficulties, well caught, Barry. And the explanation, as Hal
> says: fascinating.
> >>
> >>I have Seven Pastorales out from the library right now, & have the
> Elegiac Symphony, but clearly need to track down the Piano Concerto.
> >>
> >>Doug
> >>
> >>
> >>On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:21:46 -0600, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>Fascinating, Barry. Thanks.
> >>
> >>Hal
> >>
> >>
> >>On 2011-03-16, at 7:48 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> >
> >TREAT LOU HARRISON
> >
> >
> >Built myself a paper world.
> >Exquisite corpses with Cage & Cunningham.
> >Read Harry Partch's book (gift of Virgil Thomson).
> >
> >Contact made more intimately within sound sources.
> >Made love with drones in serial music.
> >Said Cage, "Math of the straight and narrow path" .
> >
> >Building a cathedral and shipping it to outer space.
> >Kinetically filled.
> >Please enter. No dog inside.
> >
> >Large and rambunctious expansion--
> >mountains here and hear,
> >"See what you can make of . . . " [Navaho chants instead]:
> >
> >Here holiness with innumerable crystalline cells /
> >airplant Spanish moss asway . . .
> >
> >
> >Barry Alpert / Silver Spring MD US / 3-16-11 (9:46 AM)
> >
> >I initially approached the major "American Maverick" composer Lou Harrison
> by snapping a sequence of 10 Kodak instant photos of him, John Cage, and
> their patron Betty Freeman relaxing on the grounds of a music festival.
> Thirty four years passed before I was lucky enough to be within
> geographical range of the tripartite SUBLIME CONFLUENCE: THE MUSIC OF LOU
> HARRISON.
> >
> >http://post-classicalensemble.org/lou-harrison/
> >
> >After witnessing the useful documentary film, I decided to await
> additional language which might surface during the two subsequent programs.
> Overall, a difficult and elongated writing process. I expect a more fluid
> experience when I work with an audio interview which I've just now
> discovered.
> >
> >Let me recommend a very strong work by Lou Harrison, his Piano Concerto
> (1985) in a version featuring Keith Jarrett, for whom it was originally
> composed on commission:
> >
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d85BW_ZUs0
>
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