I Love Donkeys So Much That I'm Always Going To Redistribute No Matter What The Context. In This Case,

I love donkeys so much that I'm always going to redistribute no matter what the context. In this case, let's just say that this guy would be a great vocalist over my jazz stylings. Let's just say that.

grapevinetwine:

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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?

This is a graffito I can get behind. In front of, too. And is that a dilapidated piano on the ground below? An upright left too long beneath the raw elements? Or is it just a bench? I don't know.

The guy who posted this tagged it "creep". Having a little guy like this myself, I can tell you the one thing he's not is a creep. He's smart (look at those eyes), affectionate, and all things awesome. I wish I knew this little fellow's name.

This Marlene photograph is a dead ringer for my mother when she was that age. Without the costume, beret, sophisticated attitude, and super-tweaked eyebrows of course. But that's Mom, all right. She never had a discoverer. And wasn't one herself.

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