Black Angels - Thirteen Images from the Dark Land (1970) for string quartet by George Crumb, video of a live performance by ensemble intercontemporain. 13 small movements such as "danse macabre", "devil-music", "Sarabanda de la muerte oscura", "God-music" and more.
Meryl Streep reads 'Luchai' by Wang Wei and 'A Letter to Agnes DeMille' by Martha Graham featuring Yo-Yo Ma performing George Crumb's 'Sonata for Solo Cello'.
Performed by soprano Carina Tybjerg Madsen, pianist Kristoffer Hyldig and dancer Tomomi Yamauchi january 18th 2019 at Carina's debut concert in Holmens Church, Copenhagen
George Crumb - Apparition: Elegiac Songs and Vocalises
Performed by Ellie Jarrett and Dr. Andrew Hudson
If tumblr only links the first song, the full playlist is here.
Apparently today is the anniversary of Whitman’s birth. I don’t know much Whitman, but his elegy for Lincoln, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, is one of my favourite poems.
I recently became aware of this song cycle by Crumb “based on texts from” Lilacs, and decided to use the anniversary to listen to it for the first time. As that designation suggests, it is by no means a setting of the (long) poem. Instead, it concentrates on the poem’s evocation of the apparition of Death and the poet’s Carol of Death. The work is atmospheric and intriguing, and I now want to track down a score to become more familiar.
Anlass für das diesjährige Opera Nova Projekt ist die Aufführungsserie der Oper “Amerika” von Roman Haubenstock-Ramati aus Anlass des Kafka-Jahres. Zu hören gibt es neben dem Konzert-Klassiker “The unanswered Question” von Charles Ives viele weitere spannende Musikstücke von John Cage, Elliott Carter, George Crumb und natürlich dem einzigen noch lebenden Komponisten des Abends: John Adams.…
Kronos Quartet’s award-winning 1990 album Black Angels—one of the "100 Definitive Classical Albums of the 20th Century" per the Evening Standard—is now on vinyl. You can get it here.
The 2-LP set features George Crumb’s title piece, which inspired David Harrington to found the quartet in 1973, and works by Charles Ives, István Márta, Thomas Tallis, and Dmitri Shostakovich. The fourth side of the vinyl is an etching of an illustration created especially for it by Matt Mahurin, whose work is featured on the original album cover.
Ciclo de Piano del Teatro Universidad de Chile
El Piano Estadounidense en el siglo XX a cargo del pianista #JorgePepi interpretando piezas de los destacados compositores:
#GeorgeCrumb y #CharlesIves
en el Teatro de la @uchile
Ciclo de Piano del Teatro Universidad de ChileEl Piano Estadounidense en el siglo XX
George Crum & Charles Ives
George Crumb y Charles Ives
El Quinto Ciclo de Piano organizado por el Centro de Extensión Artística y Cultural de la Universidad de Chile, bajo la dirección artística del maestro Luis Alberto Latorre, tuvo su inicio este miércoles 26 de octubre a las 18:00 horas con un programa que…