uli Posted March 27, 2014 Report Share Posted March 27, 2014 Kevin Whitehead on Braxton http://wonderingsound.com/feature/anthony-braxton-interview/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted March 27, 2014 Report Share Posted March 27, 2014 that's a nice piece, and Braxton is a favorite, both musically and personally, but I'm not sure that the :"outcast" label fits any more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmce Posted March 27, 2014 Report Share Posted March 27, 2014 Agreed. I kind of wish people would drop that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomsMobley Posted March 28, 2014 Report Share Posted March 28, 2014 (edited) sidenote: maybe someday while Anthony is still alive, Werner X. will figure out that he can make more $$$ selling CDs that people actually want to buy than sitting on them and putting out new ones nobody (mostly rightly) gives a damn about? Box up the complete Hat Cage and Feldman recordings for those interested while one is at it and voila-- decent amount of $$$, a rush of mostly fulsome international press etc. I think everyone can live without the Charlie Parker Project (mediocre idea executed at same level), most of the rest still merit wide dissemination etc. Also, note AB's 1985 chops, & slim George Lewis. Edited March 28, 2014 by MomsMobley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmce Posted March 28, 2014 Report Share Posted March 28, 2014 Braxton's '85 chops indeed. He was working on an exalted level then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted March 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2014 sidenote: maybe someday while Anthony is still alive, Werner X. will figure out that he can make more $$$ selling CDs that people actually want to buy than sitting on them and putting out new ones nobody (mostly rightly) gives a damn about? Box up the complete Hat Cage and Feldman recordings for those interested while one is at it and voila-- decent amount of $$$, a rush of mostly fulsome international press etc. this is true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomsMobley Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ayers Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 Thanks for posting. I'd be interested to see the score. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoppy T. Frog Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 don't know if anyone is planning to go to Anthony's opera at Roulette; would love to get down, doubt if I can. and I just heard from him (via email) for the first time in about 5 years. Apparently excited and overwhelmed at the size of the project. Gonna see the doubleheader on Saturday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted April 7, 2014 Report Share Posted April 7, 2014 Got a pass to see all of it. Can't wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigP Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 Clifford, I'm so jealous! I wanted to get up there for this but couldn't swing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomsMobley Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 (edited) underrated; play back to back to back with Zappa "Sleep Dirt" (vocal version) &/or Cage &/or Jim Reeves "Four Walls" for interesting effect. Rock Island, Illinois mostly sucks; this, & that, do not. Edited April 10, 2014 by MomsMobley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Rock Island, IL may suck but the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad was really fascinating. Anthony and I share a love for trains (as does Joe Morris). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xybert Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 One of my favourite Braxton albums, so good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeway Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Have tickets for Saturdays performance of Faye Victor and Braxton's Nonet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted April 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2014 Anthony Braxton conducting a rehearsal of Trillium J. photo: Michael Weintrob Blasting Opera Forward Seth Colter Walls Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ayers Posted April 11, 2014 Report Share Posted April 11, 2014 Sigh. I am sure people will love being at this event, but I guess for me the romanticism of Braxton's supposed exclusion or marginality - as in the articles linked - is just boring and wrong. From what I have heard, his writing for voice is imitative and not so interesting. Whether he can write for theatre I don't know. Maybe someone who knows modern and contemporary opera inside out needs to write about this, but someone who wants to say AB is 'blasting opera forward' is speaking from no base whatsoever, as far as I can make out. I guess if this brings people to opera it's all good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uli Posted April 11, 2014 Report Share Posted April 11, 2014 Braxton by Nate Wooley http://bombmagazine.org/article/1000092 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted April 11, 2014 Report Share Posted April 11, 2014 Nice! I don't know about "blasting opera forward," but I do like Trillium quite a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmce Posted April 11, 2014 Report Share Posted April 11, 2014 Agreed-- has to be somewhere in the middle. I don't think Braxton is a lightweight in that area, but David is right that whoever wrote that pulled it right out of their ass. Huge music writing pet peeve of mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigP Posted April 11, 2014 Report Share Posted April 11, 2014 His operas are the toughest part of his oeuvre for me to penetrate, but a lot of that is probably because I don't like opera in general. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeway Posted April 11, 2014 Report Share Posted April 11, 2014 I think AB's reference to Stockhausen in Nate's interview sort of clicked with me. I think that's the sort of operatic (better, let's call it vocal) tradition Braxton sees himself developing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomsMobley Posted April 12, 2014 Report Share Posted April 12, 2014 (edited) It's too bad Frank Zappa isn't around, FZ & AB dialogues on composition would be fantastic, lots of like influences, 'retructuring' of respective local elements etc tho' FZ was more into Cage than Stockhausen... Curious about AB and Varese, whose name doesn't come up as much as Schoenberg, Berg, Webern etc. (Insert paragraph on interesting 2nd Viennese students, Egon Wellesz, Nikos Skalkotas etc etc). Great great AB + Stewart Gillmor Seems to be out of print but maybe if folks ask Leo Feigin... Cover art is a bit sloppy, yes, but it's fantastic to hear these guys on this repertroire, doesn't make a Braxton + Vince Giordano &/or Ken Peplowksi collaboration seem like a bad idea. If a certain # of the 'standards' quartets can stretch a little long sometimes, these do not-- if anything they're too short. I can't seem to find any clips from this on youtube but if anyone thought it was an AB tradition joke gone too far, think again. file under Schnabel's Mozart pc cadenzas!!! Edited April 12, 2014 by MomsMobley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmce Posted April 13, 2014 Report Share Posted April 13, 2014 Great record, I'm a big fan. "Skylark" is gorgeous. The opening "Rosetta" is one of my favorite AB performances. Played straight on soprano until the end where he shreds the tune to ribbons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted April 14, 2014 Report Share Posted April 14, 2014 Don't have but would like to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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