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This weekend, Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts is featuring concerts of the music of French composer Olivier Messiaen and bird walks. Classical music critic Jeremy Eichler says Messiaen's love and study of birds is unmatched, but he's one of many composers who have made music out of birdsong over the centuries.
Eichler (@Jeremy_Eichler) joins Here & Now's Robin Young to take a listen to some examples.
Leroy Setziol / portland art museum
SEPT 5, 2015 – OCT 30, 2016
A composer in wood, Leroy Setziol created lyrical sculpture that honors the beauty of a material strongly identified with the Northwest. The black walnut, teak, fir, and other woods he employed enhanced his complex gridded compositions, bringing them to life. A self-taught, intuitive worker, Setziol visualized his complex carvings using the grid as an armature to frame imaginative shapes. Throughout his career, his sculpture ranged from intimate works to large-scale public commissions. The largest work on display is an elegant, teak, two-panel wall relief from 1991. Twenty-three works are on view, including free-standing sculpture, totems, and a variety of wall reliefs.
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger create a phantasmagoric marriage of cinema and opera in this one-of-a-kind take on a classic story. In Jacques Offenbach’s fantasy opera The Tales of Hoffmann, a poet dreams of three women—a mechanical performing doll, a bejeweled siren, and the consumptive daughter of a famous composer—all of whom break his heart in different ways. Powell and Pressburger’s feverishly romantic adaptation is a feast of music, dance, and visual effects, and one of the most exhilarating opera films ever produced.
5:30 on tcm
5:30 on tcm
There is a fantastic opportunity to see a 5-day festival devoted to
films on John Cage at The Anthology Film Archive in New York City:
VARIATIONS: A JOHN CAGE FILM VIDEO & MUSIC FESTIVAL Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue New York, NY 10003 (212) 505-5181 Fax (212) 477-2714 It will take place between January 21-25, 2004 and will be the largest collection of Cage films shown in one place at one time to my knowledge. Many of these films are quite obscure and have never been seen in New York. For a full schedule of the events, please see: http://www.mode.com/news.html#varjan or http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/index2.html (scroll way down to the bottom) Also, at the 7:30 showing of FRM ZERO on January 22, there will be a concert of Cage's CARTRIDGE MUSIC, FOUR6, and other pieces. Performers will include Jim O'Rourke, Okkyung Lee, Alan Licht, and Tim Barnes. Organized by Okkyung Lee in conjunction with Mode Records
The festival also coordinates with the first commercial release of the Frank Scheffer/Andrew Culver film on Cage, FROM ZERO: 4 Films on John Cage (mode 130, DVD only, for release on January 9th), on Mode records. Dutch director Frank Scheffer is known for his creative films on a number of 20th century composers, from Stravinsky and Schoenberg, to Carter and Boulez, to Eno and Zappa. Mode will be releasing a number of Scheffer's composer films on DVD over the next few years. Andrew Culver worked as Cage's assistant (and designed the computerized I-Ching program for Cage) from the early 1980s until Cage's death in 1992. Scheffer and Culver will be present at the premiere showing of FROM ZERO.
For more information on the release and the directors, please see:
FROM ZERO: http://www.mode.com/catalog/130cage.html
FRANK SCHEFFER: http://www.mode.com/profiles/scheffer.html
ANDREW CULVER: http://www.mode.com/profiles/culver.html
We hope to see you there,
Brian Brandt
mode records Logged
VARIATIONS: A JOHN CAGE FILM VIDEO & MUSIC FESTIVAL Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue New York, NY 10003 (212) 505-5181 Fax (212) 477-2714 It will take place between January 21-25, 2004 and will be the largest collection of Cage films shown in one place at one time to my knowledge. Many of these films are quite obscure and have never been seen in New York. For a full schedule of the events, please see: http://www.mode.com/news.html#varjan or http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/index2.html (scroll way down to the bottom) Also, at the 7:30 showing of FRM ZERO on January 22, there will be a concert of Cage's CARTRIDGE MUSIC, FOUR6, and other pieces. Performers will include Jim O'Rourke, Okkyung Lee, Alan Licht, and Tim Barnes. Organized by Okkyung Lee in conjunction with Mode Records
The festival also coordinates with the first commercial release of the Frank Scheffer/Andrew Culver film on Cage, FROM ZERO: 4 Films on John Cage (mode 130, DVD only, for release on January 9th), on Mode records. Dutch director Frank Scheffer is known for his creative films on a number of 20th century composers, from Stravinsky and Schoenberg, to Carter and Boulez, to Eno and Zappa. Mode will be releasing a number of Scheffer's composer films on DVD over the next few years. Andrew Culver worked as Cage's assistant (and designed the computerized I-Ching program for Cage) from the early 1980s until Cage's death in 1992. Scheffer and Culver will be present at the premiere showing of FROM ZERO.
For more information on the release and the directors, please see:
FROM ZERO: http://www.mode.com/catalog/130cage.html
FRANK SCHEFFER: http://www.mode.com/profiles/scheffer.html
ANDREW CULVER: http://www.mode.com/profiles/culver.html
We hope to see you there,
Brian Brandt
mode records Logged
There is a fantastic opportunity to see a 5-day festival devoted to
films on John Cage at The Anthology Film Archive in New York City:
VARIATIONS: A JOHN CAGE FILM VIDEO & MUSIC FESTIVAL
Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue New York, NY 10003
(212) 505-5181 Fax (212) 477-2714
It will take place between January 21-25, 2004 and will be the largest
collection of Cage films shown in one place at one time to my knowledge.
Many of these films are quite obscure and have never been seen in New
York. For a full schedule of the events, please see:
http://www.mode.com/news.html#varjan
or
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/index2.html (scroll way down to
the bottom)
Also, at the 7:30 showing of FRM ZERO on January 22, there will be a
concert of Cage's CARTRIDGE MUSIC, FOUR6, and other pieces. Performers
will include Jim O'Rourke, Okkyung Lee, Alan Licht, and Tim Barnes.
Organized by Okkyung Lee in conjunction with Mode Records
The festival also coordinates with the first commercial release of the
Frank Scheffer/Andrew Culver film on Cage, FROM ZERO: 4 Films on John
Cage (mode 130, DVD only, for release on January 9th), on Mode records.
Dutch director Frank Scheffer is known for his creative films on a
number of 20th century composers, from Stravinsky and Schoenberg, to
Carter and Boulez, to Eno and Zappa. Mode will be releasing a number of
Scheffer's composer films on DVD over the next few years. Andrew Culver
worked as Cage's assistant (and designed the computerized I-Ching
program for Cage) from the early 1980s until Cage's death in 1992.
Scheffer and Culver will be present at the premiere showing of FROM
ZERO. For more information on the release and the directors, please see:
FROM ZERO: http://www.mode.com/catalog/130cage.html
FRANK SCHEFFER: http://www.mode.com/profiles/scheffer.html
ANDREW CULVER: http://www.mode.com/profiles/culver.html
We hope to see you there,
Brian Brandt
mode records
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Sandy Bull, a Master of Musical Fusion With Open Ears, Dies at 60
By JON PARELES 4/14/01 for NYT
"Sandy Bull, a guitarist, composer and improviser whose extended fantasias merged American folk styles with jazz, classical and world music, died on Wednesday at his home in Franklin, Tenn. He was 60.
The cause was cancer, said a friend, Jeff Hanna of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
Mr. Bull came out of the folk revival of the 1950's and the early 60's. But while many of his contemporaries were trying to recreate backwoods American styles, Mr. Bull turned his ear to the wider world. During his career he performed not only on acoustic and electric guitars, but also on electric bass, piano, banjo, oud, sarod and pedal steel guitar. His instincts, and his fondness for the drone at the basis of many music styles, led him to what would later be called fusion or world music.
Mr. Bull was born in New York City and grew up in Florida, living with his father after his parents separated. He briefly studied drums and got his first guitar when he was 8. His mother, Daphne Hellman, is a harpist whose repertory spans jazz and classical music, and he began living with her in New York when he was 11. He listened to Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly and Pete Seeger, and as a teenager he took banjo lessons from Erik Darling of the Weavers.
By the late 1950's, Mr. Bull had begun a peripatetic career as a performer. In 1959 he played on the streets in Paris, where he first heard Algerian music.
While studying music at Boston University in the late 1950's, he performed at Boston and Cambridge clubs, sitting in with singers including Joan Baez. In New York in the early 1960's he worked around Greenwich Village at the Gaslight, Folk City and the Bitter End.
His music was constantly broadening. He heard Lebanese music in a friend's jewelry shop on Macdougal Street in the Village and the Indian sarod on an album by Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan.
Mr. Bull recorded his first album, "Fantasias," for Vanguard Records in 1962. It included arrangements of classical pieces by Carl Orff and William Byrd, gospel and Appalachian tunes and an extended piece based on Indian tunings; the band featured the drummer Billy Higgins, who had been working with Ornette Coleman. Mr. Bull's next album, "Inventions," included Bach, Brazilian tunes and Chuck Berry's "Memphis." Mr. Bull also became a disc jockey for a radio program called "Music of Man" on WNCN-FM in New York.
Mr. Bull moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1963 and shared an apartment with Hamza El Din, the Nubian oud master. In the late 1960's Mr. Bull spent time in London and in Egypt, where he performed on Radio Cairo. But by the end of the 60's he had become addicted to heroin, a habit he finally broke in 1974. He re- emerged playing oud at shows in Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975, and he studied sarod with Mr. Khan in 1976.
But from 1972 to 1987 he could not get a recording contract. "Some label people wanted me to play the way I'd done on my first two albums," he said in an interview with Folk Roots magazine. "But I was always trying to do something a little different, change, try different approaches. I didn't want to repeat myself."
He moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1980's. His 1988 album, "Jukebox School of Music" (ROM), included salsa-flavored tunes and programmed keyboard parts. His "Vehicles" in 1991 featured the Senegalese percussionist Aiyb Dieng.
Mr. Bull moved to the Nashville area in 1992 and in 1996 started his own label, Timeless Recording Society, which released "Steel Tears," the first album to feature his singing. He had surgery for lung cancer in 1996. In 1998 Vanguard released a compilation album, "The Vanguard Sessions." Mr. Bull had been working on an album of instrumentals, including solos for oud, sarod and electric guitar and a piece with percussionists from the Tito Puente Orchestra.
He is survived by his wife, Candy; a daughter, K. C.; two sons, Jesse and Jackson; a sister, Daisy Paradis; a brother, Digger St. John; and his mother."
"Sandy Bull, a guitarist, composer and improviser whose extended fantasias merged American folk styles with jazz, classical and world music, died on Wednesday at his home in Franklin, Tenn. He was 60.
The cause was cancer, said a friend, Jeff Hanna of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
Mr. Bull came out of the folk revival of the 1950's and the early 60's. But while many of his contemporaries were trying to recreate backwoods American styles, Mr. Bull turned his ear to the wider world. During his career he performed not only on acoustic and electric guitars, but also on electric bass, piano, banjo, oud, sarod and pedal steel guitar. His instincts, and his fondness for the drone at the basis of many music styles, led him to what would later be called fusion or world music.
Mr. Bull was born in New York City and grew up in Florida, living with his father after his parents separated. He briefly studied drums and got his first guitar when he was 8. His mother, Daphne Hellman, is a harpist whose repertory spans jazz and classical music, and he began living with her in New York when he was 11. He listened to Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly and Pete Seeger, and as a teenager he took banjo lessons from Erik Darling of the Weavers.
By the late 1950's, Mr. Bull had begun a peripatetic career as a performer. In 1959 he played on the streets in Paris, where he first heard Algerian music.
While studying music at Boston University in the late 1950's, he performed at Boston and Cambridge clubs, sitting in with singers including Joan Baez. In New York in the early 1960's he worked around Greenwich Village at the Gaslight, Folk City and the Bitter End.
His music was constantly broadening. He heard Lebanese music in a friend's jewelry shop on Macdougal Street in the Village and the Indian sarod on an album by Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan.
Mr. Bull recorded his first album, "Fantasias," for Vanguard Records in 1962. It included arrangements of classical pieces by Carl Orff and William Byrd, gospel and Appalachian tunes and an extended piece based on Indian tunings; the band featured the drummer Billy Higgins, who had been working with Ornette Coleman. Mr. Bull's next album, "Inventions," included Bach, Brazilian tunes and Chuck Berry's "Memphis." Mr. Bull also became a disc jockey for a radio program called "Music of Man" on WNCN-FM in New York.
Mr. Bull moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1963 and shared an apartment with Hamza El Din, the Nubian oud master. In the late 1960's Mr. Bull spent time in London and in Egypt, where he performed on Radio Cairo. But by the end of the 60's he had become addicted to heroin, a habit he finally broke in 1974. He re- emerged playing oud at shows in Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975, and he studied sarod with Mr. Khan in 1976.
But from 1972 to 1987 he could not get a recording contract. "Some label people wanted me to play the way I'd done on my first two albums," he said in an interview with Folk Roots magazine. "But I was always trying to do something a little different, change, try different approaches. I didn't want to repeat myself."
He moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1980's. His 1988 album, "Jukebox School of Music" (ROM), included salsa-flavored tunes and programmed keyboard parts. His "Vehicles" in 1991 featured the Senegalese percussionist Aiyb Dieng.
Mr. Bull moved to the Nashville area in 1992 and in 1996 started his own label, Timeless Recording Society, which released "Steel Tears," the first album to feature his singing. He had surgery for lung cancer in 1996. In 1998 Vanguard released a compilation album, "The Vanguard Sessions." Mr. Bull had been working on an album of instrumentals, including solos for oud, sarod and electric guitar and a piece with percussionists from the Tito Puente Orchestra.
He is survived by his wife, Candy; a daughter, K. C.; two sons, Jesse and Jackson; a sister, Daisy Paradis; a brother, Digger St. John; and his mother."
