#Joan Jeanrenaud

[del-absurdo]

#Joan Jeanrenaud #oulipo #soundcloud

[nonesuchrecords]

Kronos Quartet’s acclaimed 1995 album Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass gets its first-ever vinyl release on November 3, to coincide with Kronos Quartet: Five Decades, a year-long celebration of the quartet’s 50th anniversary. You can pre-order the two-LP set now here.

The album features violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, violist Hank Dutt, and cellist Joan Jeanrenaud performing quartets No. 2 (Company) (1983), No. 3 (Mishima) (1985), No. 4 (Buczak) (1990), and No. 5 (1991), the first piece Glass wrote for Kronos. “It contains some of Glass's best music since Koyaanisqatsi,” said the New York Times. “His ear for sumptuous string sonorities is undeniable.” The Washington Post called it “an ideal combination of composer and performers.”

Kronos Quartet: Five Decades features 50 public events around the globe, including a starry celebration at Carnegie Hall with Laurie Anderson, Attacca Quartet, Sō Percussion, and others; a free concert in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park; and shows in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Bogotá, Bristol, Budapest, Dublin, Halifax, Hamburg, Hanover, Istanbul, Katowice, Luxembourg, Lyon, Monterrey (Mexico), Paris, Toronto, Vienna, Zurich, and more.

#kronos quartet #philip glass #kronos quartet performs philip glass #vinyl #company #mishima #string quartet #contemporary classical music #nonesuch #nonesuch records

[16strings]

Sofia Gubaidulina: Quartet No. 2 (1987)

Kronos Quartet Violin: David Harrington Viola: Hank Dutt Cello: Joan Jeanrenaud Violin: John Sherba

#Music #Classical music #String quartet #Sofia Gubaidulina #Kronos Quartet

[hellocanticle]

William Susman at the Movies

William Susman at the Movies

belarca I think this is the fourth disc of the music of William Susman which has come across my desk. Let me say it is a delight to hear this man’s music and experience the range of his artistry. All releases of his music thus far have been on belarca records, a label founded by Susman to promote The Octet Ensemble and other artists who share an interest in the work of Susman and many of his…

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#Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theater in the Soviet Union #Cello #film music #Joan Jeanrenaud #Music for Moving Pictures #Native New Yorker #Pare Lorentz #Pare Lorentz Award #Tsering Wangmo #Virgil Thomson #When Medicine Got it Wrong #William Susman #WPA

[hemlockjuice]

Joan Jeanrenaud

#Joan Jeanrenaud #kronos quartet #cellist #female musicians #experimental

[rocksbackpages]

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#Music Journalism #Thom Yorke #NME #Radiohead #john harris #1992

[burlveneer-music]

Kronos Quartet - Winter 2020 Release: Kronos' Fifty for the Future #31–35 of 50 - Mark Applebaum, Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté, Susie Ibarra, Vladimir Martynov, and Henry Threadgill

Kronos’ Fifty for the Future is commissioning a collection of 50 new works – 10 per year for five years – that are devoted to the most contemporary approaches to the string quartet and designed expressly for the training of students and emerging professionals. The works are being commissioned from an eclectic group of composers – 25 men and 25 women – and the collection is beginning to represent the truly globe-spanning state of the art of the string quartet in the 21st century.

On February 6, we released the scores and parts, audio recordings, and many more resources for Fifty for the Future works by Mark Applebaum, Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté, Susie Ibarra, Vladimir Martynov, and Henry Threadgill, which join previously released pieces by Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, Laurie Anderson, Ken Benshoof, Raven Chacon, Islam Chipsy, Aftab Darvishi, Fodé Lassana Diabaté, Rhiannon Giddens, Philip Glass, Yotam Haber, Joan Jeanrenaud, Garth Knox, Aleksander Kościów, Nicole Lizée, Soo Yeon Lyuh, Onutė Narbutaitė, Kala Ramnath, Karin Rehnqvist, Yevgeniy Sharlat, Trey Spruance, Tanya Tagaq, Stephan Thelen, Merlijn Twaalfhoven, Aleksandra Vrebalov and Wu Man. Anyone can now learn to play these string quartets... including you!

Visit Fifty for the Future at www.50ftf.kronosquartet.org/

#kronos quartet #string quartet #chamber music #modern classical #2020 #mark applebaum #hawa kasse mady diabate #susie ibarra #vladimir martynov #henry threadgill

[amazingdancetalent]

Tegan Chou - Alchemy Contemporary 4th Place Junior Solo (4-way tie) You Rocked Jump Award The Company Jump Honolulu 2019

Music: Noise - Joan Jeanrenaud & PC Muñoz

#Tegan Chou #The Company #juniors #contemporary #solos #jump dance #2019

[garudabluffs]

Pamela Bruner (a.k.a pamelathings)

from the Bill Evans, Album: Everybody Digs Bill Evans, on Riverside Records. I bought this album when first released in U.K. in 1960.

Peace Piece · Kronos Quartet  1985

Cello: Joan Jeanrenaud                                                                                  Viola: Hank Dutt  Violin: David Harrington                                                      Violin: David Harrington                                                                                   Violin: John Sherba 

Composer  Lyricist: Bill Evans

#music video Peace Piece harp Kronos Quartet covers

[bookmarksandbrushpens]

My personality is a bit like this photo. I’m a very cautious person, I observe life from behind my camera but I’m nervous to take part. Prompt by @journaling-junkie Pen: Sailor Pro Gear Slim, EF Ink: Sailor Shikiori waka-uguisu Writing Music: Strange Toys by Joan Jeanrenaud

#journal #journaling #journaling junkie #2018journalchallenge #personality #hobonichi #lihit lab #leuchtturm1917 #dot grid #sailor pro gear slim #sailor shikiori waka uguisu #cursive #handwritten #handwriting

[jazzanews]

Zakir Hussain & Alonzo King LINES Ballet - Scheherazade - 2012

Kala Ramnath (violin); Joan Jeanrenaud (cello); Lynn Taffin (harp); Homayoun Sakhi (rabab); Abbos Kosimov (doira); Mahmood Nejad (nay); #ZakirHussain on tabla.

#tabla #ballet #modern ballet #alonzo king #lines ballet #zakir hussain #jazz #scheherazade #kala ramnath #jackie lynn thomas

[gussolomonsjrtest]

COMPLEXIONS CONTEMPORARY BALLET

Now celebrating a quarter-century of existence, COMPLEXIONS CONTEMPORARY BALLET, founded and directed by Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, has assembled a company of sixteen of the most spectacular imaginable dancers. These technical phenoms have various dance backgrounds and training, but many come from the world of competition dance, where the sky’s the limit for virtuosity and energetic projection. Then, Rhoden and Richardson have honed them to a razor’s edge with their proprietary NIQUE technique, which can apparently take talented dancers to the next level of dazzlement, judging by their Wednesday evening performance.

Chief choreographer, Rhoden, has often faced criticism, especially from the New York press, for the density of movement in his works, which are non-stop motion at the extreme ends of flexibility and physicality. In this two-week season at the Joyce Theater, February 19- March 3, the company is showing two different programs – and a third configuration at matinees – that encompass its history and highlight the development of its esthetic of physicality to the max.

COMPLEXIONS in BACH25 by Dwight Rhoden. photo by Sharon Bradford

Program A comprises the New York premiere of “Bach 25” (2018), set to richly orchestrated music by Johann Sebastian and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and a tribute to David Bowie, “Star Dust” (2016), using his iconic songs. In both works you can see Rhoden’s skill at crafting his chosen vocabulary – balletic lines, infused with influences from folk, African, club, and disco styles. His transitions tend to be seamless with, say, one of a pas de deux, exiting as others enter in the nick of time to pick up the movement of the remaining partner in perfect unison. From a seeming chaos of bodies, running or doing individual phrases, suddenly will emerge order – four or five couples doing an overhead lift in unison, then dissolving again into individual agendas.

COMPLEXIONS in STAR DUST (center) Brandon Gray.  photo by sharon Bradford

The second ballet on the program “Star Dust” is in nine sections that are as theatrically presentational as “Bach25” is presentationally abstract. Dance soloists portray Bowie’s personas, lip-syncing his lyrics while dancing up a storm, and backed by the colorfully-clad company in garish, body-hugging outfits by Darch that allude to the club culture of the albums from 1969 to 2016. In “Space Oddity,” Maxfield Haynes starts with a Rhoden signature move – deep plie in second position, legs wide apart. Haynes is wearing pointe shoes; he struts around the stage on toe, like a runway diva with psychedelic makeup.

Tim Stickney in Dwight Rhoden’s STAR DUST.  photo by Sharon Bradford

As “Lazarus,” Brandon Gray divides his face in two with a stripe of silver glitter running down the middle. Simon Plant with a glitter star surrounding one eye, devours the space like a menacing maniac in “Rock and Roll Suicide.” Tim Stickney in black trousers and a leather strap across his bare chest portrays a speculative “1984” humanoid from the eponymous 1974 album. And the spidery six-foot-tall Jillian Davis takes the lead in “Heroes,” sung by Peter Gabriel.

COMPLEXIONS in Dwight Rhoden’s STAR DUST (center) Miguel Solano. photo by Sharon Bradford

A gold fringe curtain and three disco balls fly in for some of the scenes, heightening the glam-rock ambience and letting the dancers come and go upstage for a welcome change. “Modern Love” and “Young Americans” are full-company blasts. And, as usual, Michael Korsch’s imaginative, technically cutting-edge lighting pinpoints and color-washes the stage with dazzling, kaleidoscopic effects that still manage to highlight the extraordinary dancing.

COMPLEXIONS in Dwight Rhoden’s STAR DUST (center) Brandon Gray. photo by Sharon Bradford

Program B, seen on February 26, opens with “From Then to Now,” six audience favorites from Rhoden’s repertory, done with a brief blackout between each. Rhoden has cast these short dances to showcase the notable gifts of his dancers. The curtain ascends on “Rise” (2008) with Tim Stickney running frantically  in place to the persistent pulse of U2’s “Where the Streets Have No Name.” The other dancers emerge from the darkness at the back, echoing Stickney’s motif with the fierce energy that characterizes everything they do.

In the duet “Spill” (2010) to contemporary classical music by Joan Jeanrenaud, newcomer Maxfield Haynes manipulates five-year company veteran Shanna Irwin in a pas de deux of continuously entwining lifts. “Wonder-Full” (1994) is a sinuous solo danced to Stevie Wonder’s “All in Love is Fair” by Brandon Gray in white shorts and a silky purple shirt that he removes midway through, so we can see not only the maximum flex of his every sinew, but also his utter control and performing passion.

“Choke” (2006) is a break-neck duet for Thomas Dilley and Simon Plant, both relatively new Complexions dancers with matching, compact builds, who personify the technical precision and difficulty of a side by side duet that switches back and forth from unison to symmetry. In “Testament” (2011) to the traditional “Amazing Grace” limber, lanky Davis in a patterned leotard and tall, lithe Gray in a kilt electrify the space with their extreme flexibility and attack. The final dance is the full-company, “Modern Love” section from “Star Dust,” to end the first act with a bang.

COMPLEXIONS in Dwight Rhoden’s WOKE (l-r): Brandon Gray, Shanna Irwin, Jared Allan Brunson, Daniela O’Neil. photo by Nina Wurtzel

The premiere “Woke” is another nine-part suite that serves, in Rhoden’s words, as “a physical reaction to the daily news.” It uses diverse musical selections by rock and rap artists with ominous titles like “Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World is Today),” “Doomed,” “Killing Spree,” and more reassuring ones – “Peace Piece,” “Mona Lisa,” and “Pray.” Here again, most of the men are bare-chested under sheer tunics and shorts or knee-length leggings, and the women each wear unique, skin-revealing outfits and point shoes (which are later replaced with soft ballet slippers.)

COMPLEXIONS in Dwight Rhoden’s WOKE. photo by Nina Wurtzel

Their interactions start out belligerent and confrontational in continuous duets and trios, which are often juxtaposed with each other on opposite sides of the stage. Korsch’s lighting is stark and shadowy with downward spots that etch the dancers in three-dimensional relief. Here, even more than elsewhere in the repertory, the sky-high leg extensions of both the men and women become thematic. In a brief solo, the small, beautifully-proportioned Plant unfolds his right leg slowly into a twelve o’clock-high extension, which he holds, rock-steady, before rising to the half toe of his standing foot. So spectacular is this feat of flexibility and control it draws applause, although it’s matched elsewhere by equally gasp-worthy contortions – sliding splits, a back walkover, quadruple pirouettes, and spread-legged slides.

COMPLEXIONS in Dwight Rhoden’s WOKE (l-r): Eriko Sugimura, Craig Dionne. photo by Joseph Franciosa

But “Woke”’s vocabulary is also peppered with flapping hands, full-body spasms, and other gestures that add dramatic pungency; it’s moody, angst-filled, and emotionally dark. At the end of one climactic group passage, the empowered women whack their partners to the ground. One of the raps is a remarkable screed using variations of the initials R.I.P. – Raised In Poverty, Remain In Peace, Realness I Preach, etc. – while bodies lie twitching on the ground and others dance oblivious behind them.

COMPLEXIONS in Dwight Rhoden’s WOKE (center) Simon Plant.  photo by Nina Wurtzel

Rhoden’s choreography is seductive. Its technical difficulty, non-stop kinetic flow, and physical invention is thoroughly impressive. It’s salient shortcoming is the repetitiousness of spatial patterns and often two-dimensional use of stage space. Dancers sprint on and off from the sides of the stage, just in time to start a phrase or to join one in progress, and they tend to face front, as if performing into a mirror.

But for all its dramatic implications, at the end, there is redemption. The dancers in alternating rows of four – men, women, men, women – outstretch their hands to us in a gesture of invitation or offering, to the melodic strains Bill Evans’s “Peace Piece,” as the curtain slowly descends.

Gus Solomons jr, © 2019

[nonesuchrecords]

As Kronos Quartet brings its season-long 50th anniversary celebration to Carnegie Hall tonight, its acclaimed 1995 album Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass is now available on vinyl for the first time. You can get it and hear it here.

The two-LP set, produced by the composer, Judith Sherman, and Kurt Munkacsi, features violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, violist Hank Dutt, and cellist Joan Jeanrenaud performing quartets No. 2 (Company) (1983), No. 3 (Mishima) (1985), No. 4 (Buczak) (1990), and No. 5 (1991), the first piece Glass wrote for Kronos. 

“It contains some of Glass's best music since Koyaanisqatsi,” said the New York Times. “His ear for sumptuous string sonorities is undeniable.” The Washington Post called it “an ideal combination of composer and performers.”

#kronos quartet #philip glass #vinyl #unboxing #string quartet #nonesuch #nonesuch records #Youtube

[workingclassaudio]

WCA #118 with Tyler Crowder

Working Class Audio Session #118 with Tyler Crowder!!!

Tyler Crowder is a freelance recording/audio engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area, who enjoys working in various recording studios, where he's done projects with both artist on major labels including Sony, RCA, Def Jam, GOOD Music, Windham Hill, Arista Records, B&G, Dancing Cat, etc. as well as  with a diverse range of local indy bands.  By working with a diverse range of major artists and local indy artist, it allows Tyler to be fluent in all styles of music, and be able to contribute to the local community of musicians and bands that surround the San Francisco Bay Area. Over the years Tyler has earned 2 Grammy nominations for audio engineering, and participated in many Billboard Charting Albums. Tyler has worked with numerous artists including Kanye West, Justin Bieber, Jennifer Hudson, Lil’ Wayne, Snoop Dog, George Winston, Melvin Seals, Tuck & Pattie, Joan Jeanrenaud, Phil Aaburg, Henry Butler, Dave “Dave’s Hands” Jackson, Keola Beamer, Cyril Pahinui, Bola Sete, Professor Longhair, Steven, Damian, and Ziggy Marley, and the Los Lonely Boys along with many other artists.

Check out this episode of Working Class Audio

#audio #WCA #Working Class Audio #Mixing #Recording #producers #engineers #sound #live sound #game sound #interviews #audio pros

[todayclassical]

March 16 in Music History

1609 Birth of composer Michael Franck.

1651 Birth of composer Zaccaria Tevo.

1653 Jean-Baptiste Lully was appointed the royal composer for instrumental at the Paris court.

1735 FP of G. F. Handel's Organ Concertos Op. 4, No. 2 No. 3.

1736 Death of Italian composer Giovanni Pergolesi at age 26 in Pozzuoli, Italy. 

1745 Birth of composer Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow.

1750 FP of Handel's oratorio Theodora. Covent Garden Theater in London.

1814 Birth of Italian Opera composer Jules Alary.

1819 Death of composer Nicolas Sejan.

1823 Birth of composer William Henry Monk.

1833 FP of V. Bellini's opera Beatrice di Tenda at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice.

1863 Birth of Welsh tenor Dan Beddoe in Ameramen. 

1869 Birth of German violinist Willy Burmester in Hamburg.

1870 FP of the new version of Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture, under Nicholas Rubenstein in Moscow. There was an original 1869 version which was revised.

1873 Birth of American soprano Lillian Blauvet in Brooklyn, NY.

1875 Birth of Italian soprano Bice Adami in Sandona di Piave. 

1876 Birth of Austrian tenor Alexander Kirchner in Vienna. 

1879 FP of Dvorák's choral setting of Psalm No. 149, Op. 79, in Prague.

1881 Birth of American composer Fannie Charles Dillon.

1885 Birth of composer Giacomo Benvenuti.

1887 Death of composer Emanuel Kania.

1894 FP of Massenet's opera Thais at the Paris Opéra, in Paris.

1901 Birth of Czech mezzo-soprano Maria Krasova in Protivín. 

1903 Birth of Russian-American composer Nicolai Lopatnikov in Revel, Estonia. 

1904 FP of Rabaud's "La fille de Roland" in Paris.

1918 Birth of American composer Howard Boatwright.

1919 Birth of composer Erno Kiraly.

1920 Birth of English composer John Addison in Surrey.

1925 Birth of Italian baritone Paolo Montarsolo in Naples. 

1928 Birth of German mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig in Berlin.

1928 Birth of composer Ramon Barce.

1929 Birth of American composer Edwin London in Philadelphia, PA.

1930 Birth of composer Minoru Miki.

1932 FP of Arnold Bax Fourth Symphony in San Francisco.

1934 Birth of English conductor Sir Roger Norrington.

1935 Birth of Spanish mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza in Madrid. 

1937 Birth of American composer David Del Tredici in Cloverdale, CA.

1937 Birth of composer Constanca Capdeville.

1938 FP of B. Martinu's opera Julietta at the National Theater in Prague.

1942 FP of Martinu's Sinfonietta Giocosa for piano and chamber orchestra, in NYC.

1945 Birth of American tenor Douglas Ahlstedt in Jamestown, NY. 

1949 Birth of Brazilian pianist Jean Louis Steuerman.

1953 Birth of German conductor Claus Peter Flor.

1968 Death of Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

1985 Death of American composer Roger Sessions at age 88, in Princeton, NJ.

1990 Death of American composer Ernst Bacon. 

1994 Death of American composer Nicolas Flagello.

1994 FP of Peter #MaxwellDavies' Chat Moss, in Liverpool.

2002 FP of Paul Schoenfield's Nocturne for solo cello, oboe and strings, with cellist Peter Howard, oboist Kathryn Greenbank and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Gilbert Varga conducting.

2004 FP of Karen Tanaka´s Cello Concerto. Joan Jeanrenaud, soloist with The Berkeley Symphony, Kent Nagano, conducting in Berkeley, CA.

#classicalmusic #musichistory #todayclassical #today in music history #onthisday

[justanotherindie]

PC Muñoz x Matthew Szemela – All the Time [Funk, Downtempo] Калифорнийский музыкант PC Muñoz из Сан-Франциско записывает отличные треки, в которых смешивает в довольно сексуальный микс фанк, хип-хоп, джаз и классическую музыку и за последние несколько лет успел поработать с номинантом на Грэмми, композитором Joan Jeanrenaud, рок-легендой Jackson Browne, Dr.

#Downtempo #funk