I'm enjoying Makrokosmos -- it's a little better for my current mood than the scary bug music (which generally I like, but not today)
Love this picture!!
http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2010-11/57560608.jpg
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/1/adg/cov250/dru900/u942/u94256a71oi.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
I don't really know that much George Crumb (though am interested), but I'm guessing that dvd cover isn't a 100% accurate reflection of his work.
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
i went to george's 80th birthday celebration/performance in philly and he did a song about his dog yoda. you haven't lived until you hear george crumb yelling YODA! YODA! YODA! over and over while banging on a cymbal that is submerged in a tub of water in a church in philadelphia.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
Oh shit, let me know the next time he's 80 cos that sounds fantastic.
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
Seriously!
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
love this guy
― Sexess - Sexual Success Or; Successful Sex (crüt), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
What's your favorite?
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
That q is for anyone btw
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
i like all the makrokosmos stuff. i like a lot of the vocal stuff, but i'm not good with names other than the well-known ancient voices of children. i'm also not really familiar with the early chamber stuff or early orchestral stuff. although i know i own some of it. Star-child is pretty cool. look for that. that's maximum crumb.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
Is this any good? I love that he's so into big birthday parties. http://www.bridgerecords.com/images/covers/9095.jpg
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
I will rep for Makrokosmos
― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
I could go on about Crumb for days and days, but at the moment only have time to type for a minute. He's my favorite living composer. He knows about the things that are important in life.
'Music For A Summer Evening' last year was the only time a live music performance has ever brought me to tears, so I guess that makes it my favorite by some sort of default.
Next month, both of his huge orchestral pieces (Star-Child and Echoes Of Time And The River) will be performed at one concert here in NYC. Both are extremely rare in performance. Super psyched.
I think about that quote 'a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual element' all the time. IMO it's best think of his music as a form of sonic spellcasting.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
Whenever you have the time or the inclination, I would like to solicit more information. LOVE THIS IMO it's best think of his music as a form of sonic spellcasting.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnCF0HehIOs
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
^^ that is a must-watch btw ^^
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
George Crumb is Crumbelievable (warning: features EMF singing "You're Crumbelievable")https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKVFdL5R1nU&feature=related
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
Music for a Summer Evening is so beautiful! I love the interaction of the piano and...? in "Wanderer-Fantasie"
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
Echoes Of Time And The River and Star-Child in one concert TONITE at carnegie. So excited. With spatial music like Echoes, there's so much you can't even hear on a CD (for ex. Xenakis' Persephassa at Central Park 3 years ago, one of the greatest musical experiences of my life; on CD, not even close).
― aluminum rivets must not be proud of their plastic bosses (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 19 April 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
:( wish i'd seen this thread earlier
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 20 April 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
ian no one would go with me! Should have thought of asking you!
~it was amazing~
― aluminum rivets must not be proud of their plastic bosses (Jon Lewis), Friday, 20 April 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
More details pls!
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Friday, 20 April 2012 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
I'm still having a hard time wrapping my head around "You're crumbelievable"
Got Makrokosmos III: Music for a Summer's Evening LP yesterday and it's really hard to hear over the stupid noisy a/c unit :-/
This one
http://meandthemrs.com/imx/057georgecrumb2.jpg
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Sunday, 22 July 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
My favorite Crumb recording!
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Monday, 23 July 2012 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
London concert, Friday 16th Feb., roll up, roll up - http://www.rcm.ac.uk/events/listings/details/?id=1395235.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 23:01 (six years ago) link
... ah, you missed yourselves, lads, a grand time was had by all.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Saturday, 17 February 2018 10:08 (six years ago) link
more info please!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 17 February 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
lol
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Friday, April 20, 2012 10:43 AM (five years ago) Bookmark
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 17 February 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
Zeitgeist, for two pianos - every extended piano technique you imagine, often simultaneously!Makrokosmos I - which was stunning.Voice of the Whale - performed under spooky blue lighting, with the masks on, sound was perfect, whole thing was gorgeous.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Saturday, 17 February 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
Notably more women in the audience than the Stockhausen in the same venue the week enough - though I've noticed Stockhausen concerts do tend to attract a lot of a certain kind of slightly grubby, sad-seeming older man.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Saturday, 17 February 2018 16:13 (six years ago) link
... the week before, not the week enough.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Saturday, 17 February 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
excellent report, thank you! i like crowd details too though most people don't include them. i like to know who shows up. especially i bothered to show up.
i would love to see some george crumb performed. seems like the recordings are a 3/4 strength facsimile of what a live performance could be.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 17 February 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link