I First Saw This Recording A Long Time Ago, This Actual Sleeve Design, In A Bookstore On Broadway, The

I first saw this recording a long time ago, this actual sleeve design, in a bookstore on Broadway, the Gryphon perhaps, a year or so after I first performed the Berg op. 1 myself. I wasn't crazy about the performance then but of course I am so now, and all the others (live) out there. The work is such a masterpiece. Hard to believe Schoenberg found it amateurish, or whatever his word was, I can't recall just now, but it had something to do with being a student production. But Schoenberg was so great himself, so capable, he was either 1) jealous, or 2) simply past such rich post-romantic, pre-atonal sonic vocabulary.

atonalitydotnet:

Glenn Gould, piano

iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/no/album/berg-sonata-for-piano-op-1/id261347394

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/3h78EwEuvW0cbemFJToyaT

Berg: Sonata for Piano, Op. 1 - Schoenberg: Three Piano Pieces - Krenek: Piano Sonata No. 3

If freckles could be mapped onto staff paper...

lushlight:

dunaewa:

(via ilikewhatyousee)

I think it depends what one means by "ballet". I, for example, do not care for story ballet at all (with the exception of Giselle). But I love abstract classical ballet of all kinds, especially Balanchine, Robbins, Forsythe, Parsons, et al.

likeaprimaballerina:

I don’t understand how people can not like ballet!

I seem to be retumbling a lot of broken pianos. But I'll make up for it, I promise. This Brewster, btw, looks like it was composed of reused pine from some pauper's coffin. I think we can safely say the tone here would have been inappropriate for anything save something extraordinarily percussive and minimal.

All scores should contain a topography.

methsoradden:

Concert for Piano and Orchestra, 1958, Cubierta, hoja de instrucciones y páginas

How to Find New Repertoire (20/21c)

How do piano players discover new repertoire to read and possibly perform? I mean, of course in this case, players who are interested in "new" music of the 20th and 21st centuries. It is true there are pieces even by such as Debussy or Krenek which are not well known. And then there are the living composers of today who count as "stars" and write piano music, e.g. Adams and Glass. But what of unknowns? Or virtual unknowns? How do you find them, read them, decide?