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| | Guardian Frederic Rzewski: Piano Works, 1975-1999 |
 | | Rzewski was always a formidable pianist, as well as a composer, and gave the first performance of Stockhausen's monumental Tenth Piano Piece in 1962, but his musical sympathies have never been doctrinaire. | | | His own music has always made a point of crossing barriers, too - drawing on sources from popular as well as high art; combining strictly notated passages with sections in which the performer is given licence to improvise; juxtaposing unambiguously tonal music with much more complex, reparative writing. | | | Rzewski's own performance, less obviously virtuosic, more reflective than Hamelin's, occupies the sixth of the seven discs in this fascinating collection. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4536303-110760,00.html
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| | The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Composer Rzewski Performs Three Personal, Searching Pieces |
| | Frederic Rzewski has one of the most uninhibitedly creative musical minds around, and he is a spectacular pianist. | | | Rzewski accompanied one passage by slapping himself and drumming his fingers on the closed piano lid, another (about the imperfections of governments) with the squeaking of a toy horn. | | | The composer and pianist Frederic Rzewski '58 returned to his alma mater Sunday evening for a solo recital in Paine Hall. |
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http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=222620
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| | Guardian Frederic Rzewski |
| | Frederic Rzewski is one of the more singular figures of American contemporary music. | | | It began and ended with ghostly knocking sounds, as Rzewski slapped, tapped, and stroked the outside of the instrument, and these mysterious passages framed music of lyrical and obsessive intensity. | | | The utopian simplicity of the tune is the basis for a bewildering musical odyssey that generates a wild and diffuse energy. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4799444-110430,00.html
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| | American Composers Orchestra - November 2, 1997 Concert |
| | Frederic Rzewski, an experimental expatriate American composer and avant-garde pianist-dynamo who The Boston Globe calls “one of the most interesting and enigmatic figures on the musical scene,” will be featured composer and soloist with the American Composers Orchestra in its performance Sunday, November 2, 1997 at 3pm in Carnegie Hall. | | | Rzewski, will perform his “A Long Time Man,” a work which includes orchestral improvisation and draws inspiration from a prison work song. | | | Much of Rzewski’s music is social and political commentary. |
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http://www.americancomposers.org/release1.htm
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| | Sleeve Notes - Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated! |
| | Rzewski met flautist Severino Gazzelloni, with whom he played concerts and made recordings. | | | More than anything, Frederic Rzewski's piano music from the seventies cogently demonstrates that one could be a radical in the grand manner, that innovation and accessibility were plausible bedfellows. | | | From 1975 until his untimely death from AIDS in 1983 he made a series of highly regarded solo recordings, including an album of works recognizably American by their forms and themes. |
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http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/notes/67077.html
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| | Frederic Rzewski |
| | Frederic Rzewski can also be heard on OO #15, A DECADE: Zeitgeist Play Rzewski and in OO #16, FREDERIC RZEWSKI: The Piano Music. | | | The composer Frederic Rzewski seminal work for solo piano with 36 variations on iEL PUEBLO UNIDO JAMAS SERA VENCIDO! |
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http://www.oodiscs.com/alcd19.html
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| | Guest Pianist At UI Will Perform Music By Frederic Rzewski Nov. 9 |
| | Rzewski wrote, "I first heard Sergio Ortega's song at a concert given by the Chilean group Inti-Illimani at Hunter College in the fall of 1974, which Ursula and I both attended. | | | Guest Pianist At UI Will Perform Music By Frederic Rzewski Nov. 9 | | | Three months before Augusto Pinochet's military coup, Ortega heard a street singer shouting in Spanish "the people united will never be defeated!" A few days later his new song was performed by the group Quilapayun and quickly became an anthem for the Chilean resistance. |
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http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2005/october/102805johnson.html
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| | If David Del Tredici has retreated from academic serialism, then Frederic Rzewski has made a similar retreat from Cage's anarchism, and from the experimental music scene Cage fathered. | | | Still, he has won his greatest fame with music that sounds like nineteenth-century virtuoso piano music - like the piano variations of Brahms, for instance. | | | Examples of this idiom include the Four Pieces for piano (1977), Song and Dance for the chamber group Speculum Musicae (1977) and Four North American Ballads for piano (1979). |
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http://www.muw.edu/frc/dilemma.htm
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| | CD Review |
| | Certainly the performance of "The People United" is a keeper -- Schultz is a longtime advocate of Rzewski's piano music, and his performance combines grace, improvisatory gusto and vigorous physical energy in splendid measure. | | | "The People United Will Never Be Defeated," Frederic Rzewski's mammoth, bravura set of piano variations on the Chilean leftist anthem, was written as a companion piece for Beethoven's "Diabelli Variations," and the connections between the two knotty, hard-driving works are easy to hear. | | | Schultz's playing is lovely and carefully attentive to the rhythmic profiles of Bach's music, but there is an aggressiveness to some of the textures that seems calibrated with Rzewski in mind. |
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http://www.thomasschultzpianist.com/CD_Review/cd_review.html
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| | Rzewski is given his due / Composer's unique oeuvre collected in set |
| | Titled "Rzewski Plays Rzewski," the box documents recent performances of Rzewski's most important piano music of the past quarter-century. | | | The effect is by turns searing, maudlin, noble and heart-breaking, with results achieved through a virtuoso blend of piano writing and dramatic effects -- the opening section, a vivid rhythmic toccata of short piano passages and audible breaths, sets the tone for what follows. | | | Perhaps no one in the world of contemporary classical music exemplifies that attitude so strikingly as the 64-year-old U.S. composer and pianist Frederic Rzewski, whose hard-edged, phantasmagoric creations tap into a tradition of freewheeling keyboard virtuosity extending back to Liszt and Beethoven. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/10/13/PK45734.DTL
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| | aworks :: "new" american classical music: rzewski, frederic |
| | Ok, finally back to the music of Frederic Rzewski. | | | And after a week of listening to the piano music of George Antheil, the work doesn't sound contaminated by the brashness of "modernity." To paraphrase Fanfare terminology: recommended, if not deserving of the highest recommendation. | | | In his work with MEV, Rzewski emphasized the concept of collective improvisation, leading both to a penchant for socialist political compositions and a style that often combined notated and improvised passages...To this day, the phrase ‘sheep of Panurge’ implies a person who blindly follows the lead of another.” |
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http://rgable.typepad.com/aworks/rzewski_frederic
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| | Browse by Artist: MUSICA ELETTRONICA VIVA |
| | Originally released in 1969, this is MEV's first album for BYG. | | | The improvisational and experimental jazz collective MEV was founded in Rome in 1966 by American composers Allan Bryant, Alvin Curran, Jon Phetteplace, and Frederic Rzewski. | | | The music we find here is an extremely experimental form of electronic jazz which is not a million miles away from the styles of early German Krautrock bands such as Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream. |
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http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/musica.elettronica.viva.html
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| | Frederic Rzewski |
| | Frederic Rzewski, speaker; Talujon Percussion Quartet (Capstone: 8681/88, 2001) | | | American composer, now resident in Belgium, of mostly chamber, vocal and piano works that have been performed throughout the world; he is also active as a pianist. | | | Carol Plantamura, soprano; Frederic Rzewski, piano (CRI: 747, 1997) |
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http://composers21.com/compdocs/rzewskif.htm
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Rzewski: The People Will Never be Defeated: Music |
| | But comparing two versions of these 36 variations on the song's theme is fraught, given Rzewski's heavily improvisational performance instructions (e.g., to play variation 11 "like fragments of an absent melody--in strict time," variation 27 "Tenderly, and with a hopeful expression"). | | | Drury's version might well be the high-water mark, in part because New Albion Records wisely included a rousing 1975 live version of the original Sergio Ortega liberation anthem with Quilapayun and thousands of singers to give the piano performance context. | | | It's folksy, rootsy music that gets microtonal in fragments and deconstructs the melody so thoroughly that it'll be 36 times lovelier when you're done listening. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000IXWM
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| | oodiscs #15 ZEITGEIST PLAYS RZEWSKI |
| | The music of Frederic Rzewski can also be heard on oodiscs #16, Frederic Rzewski: The Piano Music and OO Japanese Import, Frederic Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated! | | | Believing that the range of significant new work is wider than any individual's current sympathies, the musicians of Zeitgeist seek constantly to broaden their acquaintance with existing and emerging styles, making the ensemble a magnet for all that is vital in today's music. | | | Through friendships with Christian Wolff and David Behrman, and thanks to an early acquaintance with the work of Cage, Tudor, Boulez and Stockhausen, Rzewski developed a strong interest in the composition and performance of experimental music. |
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http://www.oodiscs.com/oo15.html
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| | Lisa Moore Piano - Programs |
| | Celebrates turn of the nineteenth century piano music with a contemporary twist: featuring Frederic Rzewski's De Profundis for speaking pianist, a provocative music theater piece that re-works the original text of Oscar Wilde. | | | Finally Frederic Rzewski's re-working of the original Oscar Wilde text De Profundis makes unheard of demands on the concert pianist in this compositional tour-de-force. | | | Chopin, Frederic - Sonata for cello/piano, Piano Concerto No.2 |
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http://www.lisamoore.org/programs.htm
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| | Untitled Document |
| | A profound social comment upon the politics of sexuality, his text from Oscar Wilde's letter from Reading Gaol benefitted hugely from state of the art sound diffusion with perfect balance between piano and voice, so that not a word was lost and the music never diminished the resonances of the text. | | | The evening culminated with an overwhelmingly moving performance of what is perhaps the greatest of all contributions to the tricky genre of melodrame, music to spoken speech. | | | This masterpiece (and the more questionable Ortega variations) are included in a highly desirable 7 CD box set of Rzewski plays Rzewski (1975-1999) |
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http://www.musicalpointers.co.uk/reviews/liveevents/rzewski_nov03.htm
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| | Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music |
| | Rzewski's thematic material derives from folk and protest songs, and these tunes make their most persuasive effect when played straight. | | | Reference Recording - Corigliano Etude Fantasy: Hough (Hyperion); Rzewski: Rzewski (Nonesuch) | | | Unlike Paul Jacobs (Nonesuch) and Kathleen Supové (CRI), who chose not to improvise a cadenza at the latter's conclusion, Jalbert takes up Rzewski's option. |
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http://www.classicstoday.com/review.asp?ReviewNum=7783
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| | Rzewski's "The People United Will Never Be Defeated!" 36 Variations on a Chilean Song, for piano solo: 1975 | | | The Piece is highly structured: See class handout which reproduces a chart from Robert Wason, "Tonality and Atonality in Frederic Rzewski's Variations on 'The People United Will Never Be Defeated", Perspectives of New Music 26/1 (1988): 108-143. | | | These composer strove to insert a political dimension into their musical production in a wide variety of ways |
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http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Class/mus352/notes/rzewski.htm
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| | Art of the States: Moonrise with Memories |
| | In 1960 he went to Italy, where he studied with Luigi Dallapiccola and met Severino Gazzelloni, with whom he performed in a number of concerts, beginning a career as a performer of new piano music. | | | He has since appeared as a soloist with many ensembles including the St. Luke's Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Caramoor Festival Orchestra, New York Chamber Symphony, Basil Sinfonietta, Adelaide Philharmonic, and the Group for Contemporary Music. | | | Throughout his career, Taylor has also performed with such diverse artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Wynton Marsalis, Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones, and Blood, Sweat and Tears. |
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http://www.artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=82
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| | WNYC - New Sounds: Program #2080 (May 09, 2003) |
| | The innovative American composer/pianist Frederic Rzewski looks back at over 25 years of composing music and performs two recent works in the WNYC studio. | | | The Road, Parts I-IV are available on the Nonesuch 7 CD set, Rzewski Plays Rzewski. | | | What's more, his piano works never fail to amaze with their sheer virtuosity, stylistic freedom, and elemental force. |
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http://www.wnyc.org/shows/newsounds/episodes/05092003
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| | ArkivMusic Pousseur: Aquarius-memorial / Bartholomee, Rzewski, Et Al |
| | Without knowledge of Pousseur's musical schemes--his incorporation of more free-form sections--this movement would read as any piece of music, being full of direction and interesting contrasts as well as gorgeous harmonies. | | | Pierre Bartholomée, at the helm of the Beethoven Academie, leads a thoughtfully planned, precise, ebullient, sonically clean and clear performance, all the more impressive when you discover--owing to the applause at the end--that it was recorded live! | | | He plays with an aggressive-yet-rounded tone that makes a disproportionately long solo venture sound as symphonic as the rest of the work. |
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http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?site_id=CTRV&album_id=52318
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| | Frederic Rzewski interview |
| | Regarding all of this, Rzewski's music has coped with many tensions and, in his own words, "it seemed to me (that) there was no reason why the most difficult and complex formal structures could not be expressed in a form which could not be understood by a wide variety of listeners" | | | The Sixties took Rzewski to Europe performing Stockhausen, Boulez, Cage, Bussotti, Kagel and many other composers as well as co-founding the influential electronic ensemble MEV with Alvin Curran and Richard Teitelbaum. | | | A lot of intelligent, sensitive and powerful music was heard at the recital. |
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http://www.furious.com/perfect/rzewski.html
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| | Classical Net Review - Rzewski - Piano Works (1975-1999) |
| | Rzewski and Ursula Oppens were together at a concert in 1974 where they heard the song and afterwards 'walked out into the street singing the melody, and it never left us from that time on'; both pianists have recorded Rzewski's variations, as too has Marc Hamelin. | | | It was serendipitous to have received this Rzewski box for review just after reviewing Uri Caine's amazing and mind-blowing double CD of Arrangements and Improvisations on the Diabelli Variations, a veritable recomposition of the Beethoven masterpiece, equally one not to be missed (Winter and Winter 910 086-2). | | | Variations are at the heart of this oeuvre, comprising about three quarters of Frederic Rzewski's piano music from the period covered. |
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http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/n/non79623a.html
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| | aworks :: "new" american classical music: Coming Together (1972). Frederic Rzewski |
| | Indeed, armed with a list of hard-to-find CDs from several genres, I was able to stump the Berkeley floor staff on only one, an obscure Hungarian recording of the ensemble piece "Coming Together/Attica" by composer Frederic Rzewski that I've been trying to replace for years. | | | And earlier this month, I too was at the Berkeley Amoeba and picked up a CD by Talujon Percussion, including an interesting rendition of Coming Together. | | | And just this week in the NY Times, Allan Kozinn reviews the eighth blackbird recording of Rzewski's music, including Coming Together: |
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http://rgable.typepad.com/aworks/2005/11/via_the_standin.html
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| | Warsaw Autumn 2002 - Performers |
| | In the mid 60s, together with Alvin Curran and Richard Teitelbaum, he founded mev ('Musica Electronica Viva'), an ensemble which soon made pioneering achievements in the field of improvised music and live electronics. | | | Collaboration with Christian Wolff and David Behrman, as well as meetings with John Cage and David Tudor, exerted a fundamental influence on Rzewski's creative development. | | | In compositions for larger complements of instruments written between 1979 and 1981 Rzewski developed experimental and graphical notation. |
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http://www.warsaw-autumn.art.pl/02/composers/c26.html
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| | Juilliard The Juilliard Journal Online |
| | Lowenthal has programmed a collection of cadenzas for Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto, including one dedicated to him by Rzewski. | | | Pianist Frederic Chiu, who will perform in the March 31 concert, declares: "Why yet another Beethoven sonata cycle? | | | "Inspired by Beethoven" presents Frederic Rzewski, Jerome Lowenthal, and Jed Distler in an evening of music primarily of works influenced by Beethoven. |
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http://www.juilliard.edu/update/journal/j_articles493.html
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| | CCi - Upcoming Events |
| | music by Zappa, Andriessen, Nancarrow, Harrison, Guido López Gavilán, Takemitsu, and Rzewski | | | Raphael Mostel, Beatles Sweet; Jed Distler, Helpings; Lois V Vierk, Yeah Yeah Yeah; Jed Distler, Hideaway, Dance for No Pennies; William Schimmel, Beata Partita No. 1 + 2; Frederic Rzewski, Fantasy; F.S. Key, arr. | | | music by Andrew Poppy, Douglas Geers, Tina Davidson, Wendy Mae Chambers, Rzewski, and Distler |
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| | eBay - frederic rzewski, Music items on eBay.com |
| | Frederic Rzewski The People United CD Hat Hut OOP | | | eBay - frederic rzewski, Music items on eBay.com | | | Save this search to Favorites and get an email when new matching listings appear on eBay. |
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| | Amazon.com: Americans!: 20th Century Piano Music of American Composers: Music |
| | Emanuele Arciuli is a young Italian pianist with a taste for American contemporary music. | | | This disk features a broad selection of 20th century American piano music, including Cage, Rzewski, Barber, Joel Hoffman and others. | | | Styles > Classical > Featured Composers, A-Z > (R) > Rzewski, Frederic > All Works by Rzewski |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004X0TM?v=glance
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| | - SHOP.COM |
| | Johnson: An Hour for Piano / Frederic Rzewski CD (Classical Collection) | | | Johnson: An Hour for Piano / Frederic Rzewski Tracks: An Hour for Piano Artist: Classical Collection Label: Lovely Music | | | When you buy from more than one store, we pay any additional shipping - our New Year's gift to you. |
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http://www.shop.com/op/aprod-p29852131
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| | Robert Christgau: Album: Frederic Rzewski: Coming Together/Attica/Moutons de Panurge |
| | Robert Christgau: Album: Frederic Rzewski: Coming Together/Attica/Moutons de Panurge | | | The other side features a less inspiring political piece and a percussion composition, each likable but not compelling, but that's a cavil. | | | The design of "Coming Together" is simple, even minimal: Steve ben Israel reads and rereads one of Sam Melville's letters from Attica over a jazzy, repetitious vamp. |
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http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=1294
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| | Interview with Frederic Rzewski |
| | Rzewski: But he wrote some good political songs.... | | | Frederic Rzewski: Well, I was a very good friend of Cornelius. | | | Varela: For example, the problems in the Scratch Orchestra’s last days [were] due to the tensions between the more aesthetically-oriented composers like Christopher Hobbs [and Howard Skempton] and the politically-oriented composers like Hugh Shrapnel or Michael Chant. Have you some reflection on these problems? |
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| | Ostrava Days 2003 Institute and Festival |
| | * “The Night of the Piano” with appearances of three of the foremost pianists of our time: Frederic Rzewski, Joseph Kubera, and Marilyn Nonken, performing major works for piano by John Cage, Frederic Rzewski, and Morton Feldman. | | | Please see the enclosed festival brochure for a detailed schedule of events and list of participants. |
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http://list.mail.virginia.edu/pipermail/silence/2003-July/000526.html
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| | Steve Lacy, soprano sax; Irene Aebi, voice; Frederic Rzewski, piano | | | I knew them from New York from the late '50s (The Connection, The Brig), and so did Frederic, who had composed and played with them. | | | PS: Before recording took place, we performed this work first at the Theatre Biplan in Lille, France, then at the Centro d'Arte in Padova, Italy, and finally at the American Center in Paris. |
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http://www.newalbion.com/NA080
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| | Frederic Rzewski: New and Recent Works |
| | The Road for solo piano (1996), Fredric Rzewski, piano | | | Two other works by Rzewski are featured: Whangdoodles (1990), performed by the Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio, and To the Earth (1985), performed by William Winant, percussion. | | | The Road, Parts I and II, was recorded live at the Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Gardens Theater in San Francisco at the third Other Minds Festival, on 22 November 1996. |
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http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Rzewskicd.shtml
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| | Keyboard epics, edgy and daring improvisations, piano theater and live electronics–composer/pianists take center stage for two weekends, spotlighting today’s thriving keyboard scene. | | | This joint venture between The Kitchen’s Keyboard Summit and Composers Collaborative& Solo Flights features Frederic Rzewski’s world premiere | | | Frederic Rzewski: The Road (Parts 1 and 2) |
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| | WNYC - Music - New Sounds Live: View From The Coasts |
| | A weeklong on-air music festival designed to help you create the classical music library of your dreams. | | | Currently celebrating its 20th anniversary season, California Ear Unit, longtime leaders of the new music scene on the West Coast, makes a rare New York appearance, performing works by Frederic Rzewski and Californians John Adams and James Sellars. | | | On the bill at Merkin Hall is Rzewski's seminal Coming Together, John Adam's effective Road Movies, John Bergamo's riotous Foreign Objects, and James Sellar's accurately titled GO, (which the Albuquerque Journal calls "a densely textured ten minute non-stop vertigo trip"). |
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http://www.wnyc.org/music/articles/10101
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| | eighth blackbird: fred |
| | Classical music editor Steve Smith talks about Frederic Rzewski and chamber ensemble Eighth Blackbird | | | Interview with Frederic Rzewski recorded June 12, 2004 at Christy's Rathskeller in Cincinnati, Ohio, transcribed by Lisa Kaplan | | | Front cover photo: © The Image Bank (GK Hart / Vikki Hart) |
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| | VH1.com : Frederic Rzewski |
| | Portions of content provided by All Music Guide®, a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC | | | Add a link to your "Frederic Rzewski" fan site on VH1.com! | | | E-commerce on this website is brought to you by MTVN Direct Inc. |
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http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/rzewski_frederic/446286/album.jhtml
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| | Rzewski blazes a unique piano path - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Living / Arts - News |
| | Frederic Rzewski is one of the major figures writing for piano in our time, and securing him as composer-in-residence was a major coup for New England Conservatory's annual Summer Institute for Contemporary Piano Performance. | | | Rzewski has progenitors -- Ives, Ruggles, John Cage -- but like them, he is an original, an American maverick, whose way of looking at the world makes us see it differently too. | | | Rzewski began with Beethoven's music, really moving it along, and with sharp rhythmic edges softened occasionally by ornaments in baroque style. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2005/06/22/rzewski_blazes_a_unique_piano_path
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