I can’t recall… is this the way they did it on the album/concert (piano and voice)? (Or are they just running it down before working on an orchestrated accompaniment?)
Thank you. So many familiar gems here. Not “familiar” because I saw MTT work a lot (only once with the New York Phill) or because I am familiar with much of the work (I wish - though I fully found Lou Harrison through him). My admiration of MTT came ambiently, 3000mikes away processing the willful diversity of his SFS programming, reading and hearing him on the music, delighting in the fact that there was someone in the “classical” world who had a different perspective on what that culture could be like today. The familiarity is in the archetype you describe: a person with unique artistic power to challenge audience perceptions, and a cultural/institutional position to do it from. I had a couple of those models, and one of the last ones, a Bay Area resident (and occasional MTT collaborator), also passed earlier this year. I yearn for figures like that in music at the moment. Ones with creativity but also the will and the strength to bring a broader radical vision forth on a bigger stage. They are desperately needed.
Fantastic to be reminded of Giacinto Scelsi along with MTT - to inspire is our greatest gift to each other.
I have misplaced my MTT & Sarah Vaughan GERSHWIN LIVE! album, alas.
"There is nothing that is too difficult" -- yes! The absence of context is what makes it seem difficult!
Exactly. And have you seen this clip? https://youtu.be/1HQ5u74ZAAo?si=PFDNPQog4IqMDHS1
I hadn’t! Thanks!
I can’t recall… is this the way they did it on the album/concert (piano and voice)? (Or are they just running it down before working on an orchestrated accompaniment?)
Seems like just warming up the interpretations together before the rehearsals with the orchestra, that album is live with Marty Paich's arrangements
Thank you. So many familiar gems here. Not “familiar” because I saw MTT work a lot (only once with the New York Phill) or because I am familiar with much of the work (I wish - though I fully found Lou Harrison through him). My admiration of MTT came ambiently, 3000mikes away processing the willful diversity of his SFS programming, reading and hearing him on the music, delighting in the fact that there was someone in the “classical” world who had a different perspective on what that culture could be like today. The familiarity is in the archetype you describe: a person with unique artistic power to challenge audience perceptions, and a cultural/institutional position to do it from. I had a couple of those models, and one of the last ones, a Bay Area resident (and occasional MTT collaborator), also passed earlier this year. I yearn for figures like that in music at the moment. Ones with creativity but also the will and the strength to bring a broader radical vision forth on a bigger stage. They are desperately needed.
In fact, great photo proof of one of those occasional collaborations https://www.facebook.com/MinkinPhotography/posts/pfbid02Yj5AHxzq6gdSa1ciKyhq58Ge5LqWS8GS3F6cEqtkJAiWGTp6KMskNuWeGpnaMn9jl