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Graphs And Time first recording...my own Sonic Bloom is on the same disk!

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American Festival of Microtonal Music (AFMM)

Congrats to 7/4!

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By the way, I had no idea that your last name is Rimsky-Korsakov. whistling.gif

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Edgard Varese, “Ameriques” and Morton Feldman, “Piece for Four Pianos” and “Five Pianos” performed by Bugallo- Williams Piano Duo and Friends (Wergo). On Oct. 28, 1972, one of the first and most memorable results of composer Morton Feldman’s long residence as UB’s “Varese Professor of Music” was the performance of Feldman’s otherworldly “Pianos and Voices” at a Creative Associate Concert in the Albright- Knox Gallery. The pianists were a New Music all-star team of Feldman himself, David Del Tredici, Julius Eastman, William Appleby and Lukas Foss, no less. It is, by all possible guesses, the same piece as the pedal-overtoned “Five Pianos” which, with less prominent humming, magically concludes the wonderful new disc by the Buffalo-formed Bugallo-Williams piano duo and their keyboard friends. The true star of the program, though, is Varese’s 1920 “Ameriques” which, in gigantic orchestra form, is one of the most magnificent and savage masterworks in all of modern music. In Varese’s own two-piano transcription discovered in 2004, it is an entirely different piece—jagged and of daunting difficulty but of the sort that Helena Bugallo and Amy Williams routinely attempt with neither hubris or difficulty but rather total nonchalance.

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An Intrepid Group Surveys an Idiosyncratic Composer

But included among the three works in the hourlong concert was a fascinating, substantial discovery: Varèse’s arrangement for two pianos, eight hands, of “Amériques,” the first piece he wrote after moving to New York from France.

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Varèse Live on ICE.

On Wednesday, July 7 at 7 p.m. EST, Q2 streams the music of Edgard Varèse, including the New York premiere of the 8-hand piano version of the iconic Ameriques. Hosted by WNYC's John Schaefer at the Yamaha Piano Salon, this sneak preview concert of Lincoln Center Festival's Varèse: ®evolution features musicians from the exciting ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble).

Varèse: ®evolution at Lincoln Center Festival presents the entirety of Varèse's works over two evenings, with performances by the New York Philharmonic led by Alan Gilbert, the International Contemporary Ensemble led by the dynamic percussionist Steven Schick, So Percussion, Musica Sacra and the Oratorio Society led by Kent Tritle.

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Great - thanks for that link! A good friend of mine still has hope Zappa'a Varèse recordings with Ensemble Modern might be released, but for some reason his wife keeps sittin' on them.

That would be nice, but we don't hold our breath. It's been many years.

Too bad too, because this sounds great. I just finished listening to it. It even sounds like Zappa is conducting.

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