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On March 16 at the Sound Wired Concerts in Chicago, Mana Quartet performed my Constructions for Julie Mehretu for a second time. The performance was wonderful. Check out the video. They are fantastic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrF0FQkQsLI
Lady Day singing 24 hours a day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ufn1x8cMcc Inspiring talk from Pierre Boulez where he gives insight into his compositional process. He discusses his piano work Incises and how he expands different elements to create his magnificent Sur Incises.
Some of you have probably seen this before but i happened to stumble across it this morning and wanted to share it.
Keep it real.
Leif Segerstam writes lots of symphonies. Not as in Mozart wrote a lot of symphonies, not even in the category of Haydn and Hovhaness wrote a lot of symphonies, Segerstam is in a different category. Right now he is somewhere in the 270s for his symphonies. Most of them are intended to be performed without a conductor. Each part has timings and when they should play in time with other musicians. Each section even has directions on who should begin and end it. His symphonies have inspired me to start sketching out one of my own for winds, piano and tympani. We'll see if anything comes of it.
As I said in my first post his music is very free. If you click the link below and look through his catalogue you will find bunch of PDF files of some of his works.
Here is a link to Leif Segerstam's profile and list of works at the FMIC.
Below I've included video of his Symphony No. 212 which was written for Gustavo Dudamel. The work was divided into two sections i'm assuming to meet the file size requirements of YT. Go listen to it. Enjoy it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAydCG0KTdQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9909P9h-2s
I only discovered the music of the Finnish composer and conductor Leif Segerstam a few months ago. His handwritten scores can be quite a mess, but his music is always interesting and engaging. His music is usually very free. The individual parts do not always line up together, in fact they very rarely do. Perhaps the freedom allowed to the performers is what draws me to his music since I've been working on that same issue in my recent music. Anyway here is a video of Pia Segerstam (cello) and Christophe Sirodeau (piano) performing Leif segerstam's Noem No. 8 for cello and piano. Pia Segerstam is the daughter of Leif Segerstam and if I remember correctly Christophe Sirodeau is her husband.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dj_gSOpBDg
