7/4 Posted April 11, 2014 Author Report Posted April 11, 2014 Anthony Braxton conducting a rehearsal of Trillium J. photo: Michael Weintrob Blasting Opera Forward Seth Colter Walls Quote
David Ayers Posted April 11, 2014 Report 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
uli Posted April 11, 2014 Report Posted April 11, 2014 Braxton by Nate Wooley http://bombmagazine.org/article/1000092 Quote
clifford_thornton Posted April 11, 2014 Report Posted April 11, 2014 Nice! I don't know about "blasting opera forward," but I do like Trillium quite a bit. Quote
colinmce Posted April 11, 2014 Report 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
CraigP Posted April 11, 2014 Report 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
Leeway Posted April 11, 2014 Report 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
MomsMobley Posted April 12, 2014 Report 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
colinmce Posted April 13, 2014 Report 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
clifford_thornton Posted April 14, 2014 Report Posted April 14, 2014 Don't have but would like to. Quote
Alexander Hawkins Posted April 14, 2014 Report Posted April 14, 2014 One of my favourite Braxton albums, so good. I was lucky enough to be there that night...one of the single most inspirational musical experiences I've ever had! Blew my 23-year old brain... Quote
mjazzg Posted April 14, 2014 Report Posted April 14, 2014 One of my favourite Braxton albums, so good. I was lucky enough to be there that night...one of the single most inspirational musical experiences I've ever had! Blew my 23-year old brain... Me too but my mind was considerably older..... Quote
colinmce Posted April 14, 2014 Report Posted April 14, 2014 (edited) There is currently a copy of the Gillmor at DG. Edited April 14, 2014 by colinmce Quote
mjazzg Posted April 14, 2014 Report Posted April 14, 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. Always happy to follow a recommendation like that - especially knowing how highly you rate AB, colinmce Just snaffled a second hand copy off amazon.uk for £10. Still another one available Quote
Д.Д. Posted April 14, 2014 Report Posted April 14, 2014 (edited) 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. Always happy to follow a recommendation like that - especially knowing how highly you rate AB, colinmce Just snaffled a second hand copy off amazon.uk for £10. Still another one available I got rid of mine years ago, I thought it was pretty silly, but I don't remember any of it now. Not as bad as 100-CD "standards" sets on Leo that would follow (which killed remainders of interest I had in Braxton), in any case. This reminds me that I still have a lot of Braxton I doubt I will ever listen to. Anybody's interested in Solo NYC (2002) on Parallactic, for example? Send me a PM. Edited April 14, 2014 by Д.Д. Quote
xybert Posted April 14, 2014 Report Posted April 14, 2014 One of my favourite Braxton albums, so good. I was lucky enough to be there that night...one of the single most inspirational musical experiences I've ever had! Blew my 23-year old brain... Me too but my mind was considerably older..... Always blows my mind thinking about what it must have been like to actually have been at shows like this, and to have said show on CD. Quote
Clunky Posted April 14, 2014 Report Posted April 14, 2014 One of my favourite Braxton albums, so good. I was lucky enough to be there that night...one of the single most inspirational musical experiences I've ever had! Blew my 23-year old brain... Me too but my mind was considerably older..... I've returned to this concert repeatedly ,(recorded off the radio), hadn't released that I'd been released officially until now. Quote
jlhoots Posted April 14, 2014 Report Posted April 14, 2014 There is currently a copy of the Gillmor at DG. Not anymore - I bought it.Thanks. Quote
colinmce Posted April 15, 2014 Report Posted April 15, 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. Always happy to follow a recommendation like that - especially knowing how highly you rate AB, colinmce Just snaffled a second hand copy off amazon.uk for £10. Still another one available I got rid of mine years ago, I thought it was pretty silly, but I don't remember any of it now. Not as bad as 100-CD "standards" sets on Leo that would follow (which killed remainders of interest I had in Braxton), in any case. This reminds me that I still have a lot of Braxton I doubt I will ever listen to. Anybody's interested in Solo NYC (2002) on Parallactic, for example? Send me a PM. Having trouble sending you a PM, but if the CD is available, I'm interested. Quote
uli Posted May 20, 2014 Report Posted May 20, 2014 Tri-Centric Fdn @tricentricfdn 15h SoundCloud is back up so here it is: audio sample of next New Braxton House release, Anthony Braxton's 12 CD set https://soundcloud.com/tricentricfoundation/12-duets-dcwm-2012 … Quote
mjzee Posted May 20, 2014 Report Posted May 20, 2014 Only 12 CDs???? Maybe there'll be more in a couple of weeks... Quote
mjazzg Posted May 20, 2014 Report Posted May 20, 2014 Thanks for posting the link. the music sounds fascinating but no way that budget or life will allow for 12Cds. I wish they'd produce a 2 CD sampler or similar Quote
AllenLowe Posted May 20, 2014 Report Posted May 20, 2014 (edited) only 12 cds? he's a slacker - Edited May 20, 2014 by AllenLowe Quote
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