Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman, Frank O'Hara: Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman, ISBN: 1878972316

What was great about the fifties is that for one brief moment — maybe, say, six weeks — nobody understood art. That's why it all happened. — Morton Feldman Morton Feldman... Format: Paperback Condition: New

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Performer-Taco Kooistra; Composer-Morton Feldman; Conductor-Jos Zwaanenburg; Performer-The Barton Workshop; Performer-Frank Denyer; Performer-Philip Corner; Performer-Marieke Keser: Morton Feldman: Composing by Numbers - The Graphic Scores, 1950-67, Mode 2005-04-26 ISBN: B0007XGPNG
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1951 was quite a prolific year for Feldman - he composed no fewer than 14 works, of which "Intersection I" and "Marginal Intersection" call for the largest forces - but while his graphic scores for chamber line-ups are no longer surprising to our ears, having been performed and recorded relatively frequently (five commercially available versions exist of "Projection I" and there are several readings of the later works in the "Projections" series, even including another by the same ensemble), the same compositional techniques used with a full ensemble lead to a rather thick, chromatically saturated texture at odds with the quasi-Webernian sparsity of the chamber pieces. The music is uncompromising, and, though recognisably Feldman, not always attractive. It's surprising, though, that "Marginal Intersection" hasn't been released before, as it's remarkably colourful, if atypical. In addition to the instrumental ensemble, in which percussion features quite prominently, the piece calls for two oscillators - one senses the influence of Varese somewhere in the background, though the once more rather claggy pitch world is far removed from his razor-sharp set theory. In contrast, notes in Frank Denyer's version of "Intersection II" sound so good I'm tempted to wonder if Denyer, a talented and woefully underestimated composer in his own right, didn't prepare his own performing version of the score (a la David Tudor, as mentioned in the review above) prior to the recording session. His muscular bravura in "Intersections III" also gives the lie to the idea that Feldman's music must, of necessity, be slow, quiet and fragile. A comparison of the two solo cello works, "Projection I" (1950) and "Intersection IV", dating from three years later, both splendidly performed by Taco Kooistra, reveals how sophisticated Feldman's graph paper notation had become by the time he abandoned it later in 1953. When he returned to the medium at the end of the decade, the results were deceptively complex, and strikingly beautiful. Compared to the rather muddy textures of "Intersection I", "Out of 'Last Pieces'" and "The Straits of Magellan", both written in 1961, positively shimmer - and I thought the Turfan Ensemble's reading of the latter on Mode 103 couldn't be equalled - and it's wonderful to finally hear "In Search of An Orchestration". Not that Morton Feldman had to search all that far: his mastery of instrumentation is evident throughout this fine disc.--- Dan Warbuton Audio CD

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Claren, Sebastian: Neither, Die Musik Morton Feldmans Diss. WOLKE VERLAGSGES., ISBN: 3923997906

NEUBUCH! 2000. 634 S. m. u. Fotos u. Notenbeisp. im Text u. Farbtaf. 24,5 cm

[SW: Neither (Feldman),Komponist, Feldman, Morton]

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Leslie, Alfred, [ Alfred Leslie, Jean Paul Sartre, Pontus Hulten, Gregory Corso, James Schuyler, Walter Harrison Mason, Hannelore Hahn, Frank O'Hara, Joel Oppenheimer, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Charles Olson, William Arrowsmith, Jack Kerouac, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Donald Windham, Alan Ansen, Kenward Elmslie, Derek Walcott, Wm. Carlos Williams, Billy Klüver, Gael Turnbull, Barbara Guest, Robert Frank, Terry Southern, Alfred J. Jensen, Peter Orlovsky, Alice Neel, Meyer Liben, Mike Stoller, Morton Feldman, Jerry Leiber, Kenneth Koch, Fidel Castro, James J. Wadsworth, Fitzhugh Ludlow, Alfred Leslie, Alfred Jensen, Alice Neel, Pontus Hulten ]: The Hasty Papers : A One-Shot Review, New York, NY: Alfred Leslie, 1960
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wrappers 39.7 x 29.4 cm.; sewn bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Oversize anthology containing contributions from every discipline, by the foremost creators of the period. Includes the work of Jean Paul Sartre, Pontus Hulten, Gregory Corso, James Schuyler, Walter Harrison Mason, Hannelore Hahn, Frank O'Hara, Joel Oppenheimer, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Charles Olson, William Arrowsmith, Jack Kerouac, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Donald Windham, Alan Ansen, Kenward Elmslie, Derek Walcott, Wm. Carlos Williams, Billy Klüver, Gael Turnbull, Barbara Guest, Robert Frank, Terry Southern, Alfred J. Jensen, Peter Orlovsky, Alice Neel, Meyer Liben, Mike Stoller, Morton Feldman, Jerry Leiber, Kenneth Koch, Fidel Castro, James J. Wadsworth and Fitzhugh Ludlow. With essays by Alfred Leslie, Alfred Jensen, Alice Neel and Pontus Hulten. Illustrated in black-and-white. [unpaginated] Very Good. Lower right corner of front wrapper slightly creased. Very light wear / discoloration at edges of wrappers. Else Fine. This copy in original mailed shipping carton.

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