The CYSO is always looking for new ways to develop programming, commission works and push the boundaries of classical music. This video and project is no exception! Bravo CYSO.
The CYSO’s Encore Chamber Orchestra, Allen Tinkham (conductor) and Third Coast Percussion performs David T. Little’s RADIANT CHiLD.
Radiant Child Video Recording was supported by New Music USA. For more information about this project, visit their website.
Radiant Child Video Recording was supported by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from Helen F. Whitaker Fund, Aaron Copland Fund for Music
Over the past week, I have been spending a lot of time looking for one more piece to fill out my percussion ensemble program. I found a lot of great pieces that I will be posting in the coming months. Today’s video features a performance by Ensemble 64.8 performing Last Waltz (2009) by Tim Constable.
This is the first of four movements contained in the work ‘Percussion Quartet No. 1′
by the young Australian percussionist and composer Timothy Constable, provides a new take on the traditional waltz. Taking from the dances’ lilting rhythms and reworking them to an unusual degree of complexity and syncopation, Constable creates a challenging and energetic percussion quartet that leads perfectly onto the other three movements of the work; ‘Tango,’ ‘Loop,’ and ‘Final Science.’ ‘Last Waltz’ contains sections of percussive counterpoint in which motives are passed between the performers, as well as powerful and energetic themes played in unison, creating dramatic moments of driving rhythm.
The work shown here was performed by Ensemble 64.8, the resident percussion ensemble at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. (Performers from left to right: Morris Palter, Fiona Digney, Trevor Saint, and Eric Retterer.) Nov. 20 2010 at the Davis Concert Hall located on the UAF Campus.
Originally posted on DrummChattr.com on February 3, 2012.
This is a very cool phase-based piece performed by David Cossin of Talujon. Performed live, the player has a video of himself projected behind the live performance. You can both see and hear the phases, and additionally which of us doesn’t wish we had 4 arms every now and then.
(And for those of you who think “OK, I get it after the first few phases, do yourself a favor and watch the whole thing. Additional material is introduced after a full cycle of the original material.)
Originally posted on DrummChattr.com on January 28, 2012.
From the NPR Field Recordings comes a video performance of Michael Gordon’s Timber, written for six two-by-fours, performed by Mantra. This performance was filmed live at Lowe’s Home Center. Mantra has been performing this piece for the past couple of months, including a performance at PASIC 2011 in Indy, and it is great to see that the group and the piece are being recognized on national broadcasts. Congrats Mantra and Michael Gordon!
Originally posted on DrumChattr on January 13, 2012.
Alex Ross, music writer and critic for the New Yorker Magazine and author of The Rest is Noise and Listen to This, has compiled a list of the past year’s most memorable classical performances.
One stand out on this list is John Luther Adam’s “Inuksuit” at the Park Avenue Armory.
This is a pretty fun piece by Thierry de Mey. Generally, it’s performed as a trio, but with some good editing Jose Javier Navarro Lucas performs it here…with himself.
Have you performed this piece? For what venue? What was the response? Leave your thoughts in the comments.
Originally posted on DrummChattr.com on March 12, 2011.
