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9.70011bk Hammers:557541bk Kelemen 3+3 13/8/10 10:24 AM Page 1 Hammers and Whistlers by Izzeddin Çalis¸ lar with Kamran Ince KAMRAN INCE now whisper so I’m creative mnoh, r, kyr, ykl, s, t, tay, take a pause noisy even when I’m playing in the garden vr, fij, kut, w, mry, but distant or close and the humanity nmuh, kleih, u, vr, ou, Hammers and Whistlers make this the last! cheerful or sad will be unconsciously a part of me eit, v, w, tys, then you’ll begin to create moving x, y, z if you don’t like others’ thoughts Curve • Istathenople • Strange Stone and then you’ll never stop deep or shallow then create new ones your self once upon a time you’ll keep creating (whistles … ) if you don’t care about what was done before man kind that’s why you must create something new made the alphabet Present Music Ensemble you have to take a pause now many or few which belongs only to you from nails in this hall grand or humble Milwaukee Children’s Choir and Choral Artists sounds became nails you will discover words you took a pause and then the letters finding but that will be the last Milwaukee Youth Symphony String Orchestra (whistles … ) then found one sharing and now you’ll keep creating which created zero now (unintelligible whispers … ) now you’ll never stop Kevin Stalheim then came if you let it sing or whisper your voice is a world microchips it will always come to you crazy or sane now share with others at the beginning no limit (unintelligible shouting … ) what you’ve found there was only go on yes and can give “the voice” something by you now you’ve now discovered at the end there will remain only (shouting … ) a voice implies all the reality how to find “the voice” to share only yes it makes all the senses real now “the voice” I can create this is the way to be human will remain myself! do you want to share them? isn’t it funny? only yes do you really whant to share them? yes “the voice” I can feel it do you want to have the senses isn’t it ugly? I can create do you want to feel all the senses and pretty? myself! do you want to keep the senses yes now do you want to share the senses and a little sad yes do you? (normal alphabet mixed with made-up letters) C (whistles … ) you’ve been created to be creative a, b, c, zty, jtu, me, zvr, trah, d, jky, kyf, tha, e, knu, f, e, huge or tiny do you have a right to stop creation? shr, ktu, dzoh, mr, g, mrah, h, M quiet all these whisperers i, shyr, j, lay, k, hyu, bdoh, drah, hard or easy and the whistlers hiy, l, ktay, m, zyl, syt, n, rsu, earth are the creations of the creator Y all these creations o, tsu, ort, jky, p, syf, lki, q, K 5 9.70011 6 9.70011 9.70011bk Hammers:557541bk Kelemen 3+3 13/8/10 10:24 AM Page 2 Kamran Ince (b. 1960) I knew it had to stay in there.” “I am turning more to Turkish music. I am particularly Present Music Ensemble Curve • Hammers and Whistlers • Istathenople • Strange Stone This disc offers spiritual longing, audacious celebration interested in contrasting Turkish folk music with Ottoman Internationally acclaimed and celebrating and brilliant homage and finishes with antic comedy. classical music. The playful and surprising aspect of the twenty-eight years of new music, Present Music commissions, performs, records, Again and again in piece after piece, Kamran Ince These lines from Calislar’s poem sum up this thrilling Strange Stone (2004), according to the composer, folk music, and the depth, weight and elegance of Ottoman “represents the new-music equivalent of the traditional courtly music capture me. I’ve explored these two sides and tours the music of living composers. expresses spiritual longing in the simplest and most time- music: In the past quarter century, more than honored way: By placing half-steps and whole steps in Turkish zurna,” a notably loud, rowdy and nasal wind before, but the ingredients are changing. Maybe I’m going sing or whisper fifty new works, by composers from close proximity. The difference was poignant when instrument. Fine, but the rest of us will hear the slide more toward my core.” crazy or sane around the world, have come into Monteverdi and friends experimented with it c. 1600, and whistle, the herky-jerky melodies, the scampering winds Present Music, the Milwaukee new-music organization no limit existence because of Present Music. it remains so today. chased by a waddling bassoon and the meowing glissando led by Kevin Stalheim, commissioned and premiered strings and think: Looney Tunes. Hammers and Whistlers (in 2006) and Istathenople (in Founded by Kevin Stalheim, Present Ince, however, does not merely repeat a well-worn In Istathenople, Ince runs two distinct ideas, one driving Music works closely with many of the strategy. His stark way of framing and rich way of coloring and virtuosic, the other placid and glowing, through some No spiritual yearning in Strange Stone; this one is pure, 2003). Ince and Present Music have had a long and fruitful world’s most exciting and significant these basic intervals sharpens their emotional edges and of the many musical genres that have influenced him: audacious fun. relationship that has included many commissions and a composers while supporting the talents updates a time-honored device. Balkan, Turkish and Greek traditional music, rock and “I was going for the blur of Ottoman classical music tour of Turkey. The Milwaukee Choral Artists, the of emerging voices. It also nurtures the The ache touches home, especially, at the outset of pop, European modernism and American Minimalism. washed with the in-your-faceness of the zurna sound, to Milwaukee Children’s Choir and the Milwaukee Youth next generation of composers through its Curve, Ince’s string quartet. Ince wrote the piece for the The ten-piece band includes bouzuki, mandolin and create a synthesis of the two,” the composer writes. “I Symphony Orchestra Strings joined the Present Music education program, the Creation Project. Photo by Tom Bambegrer (used by permission) Bambegrer Tom Photo by Ceruti String Quartet, which premiered it at Carnegie Hall electronic keyboard. Ince’s unique colors make even the warped the classical horizontally and vertically – ensemble in this performance of Hammers and Whistlers. Present Music marks its 28th season with in 1997. most basic harmonies fascinating. Bathe a major third horizontally with what I call spice and dirt and vertically a heightened commitment to emerging composers, exciting visiting artists, and a host of collaborations that turn our concerts into events. Present Music has The tentative, irregular seconds – major here, minor rocking to a minor third in gorgeous, shifting colors and with the out-of-sync quality.” Tom Strini toured extensively throughout the United States and has participated in major international music festivals, including there, consonant here, dissonant there – quiver as they you can listen to them all night. performances in Japan, China, and Turkey. Most recently, Present Music toured to New York to perform at the reach toward but never quite achieve real melody. The You’d expect Istathenople to be a musical Tower of prestigious Composer Portrait Series at Columbia University. Currently, Present Music can be heard on nine compact sentiment of this bit of music is not so much sadness as Babel, but simple, instantly recognizable materials hold disc recordings that include composers Kamran Ince, Michael Torke, Daniel Lentz, Henry Brant, Jerome Kitzke, emotional paralysis, which is sadder than sadness. The the piece together. It is ever changing but ever the same; Kimmo Hakola, Elena Kats-Chernin, and Armando Luna. asymmetrical pounding ostinati and the surreal rock ’n’ ideas heard at the outset return in colorful new clothes roll rave-up violin solo that follow read as outbursts of and dance slightly different steps. It’s fun to compare the Kevin Stalheim frustration and anxiety. iterations and impossible not to be swept up in the overall Kevin Stalheim is founder and Artistic Director of Present Music. Curve, along with Domes (1992) and Arches (1994), rising energy. At the end, just when it couldn’t get any Committed to commissioning new work and supporting residencies, he reflects the composer’s preoccupation with architectural more raucous and energetic, Istathenople turns gloriously has worked closely and extensively with many of the most important shapes associated with spirituality. and soothingly beautiful. composers of our time. Through Stalheim’s considerable efforts, Present Hammers and Whistlers begins with a heavenly, treble The singer, Hadass Pal-Yarden, put something of Music – currently celebrating 28 years – is now regarded as one of the clamor of woodwinds and the voices of women and herself into that ending: A few lines from the Old foremost national organizations in the development and presentation of children. For the next 22 minutes of this 2006 piece, Ince Testament Song of Solomon. new music. Among Stalheim’s accolades and honors are the City of astonishes the ear. The stream-of-consciousness whirl, Milwaukee Arts Board’s 2002 “Artist of the Year” award, the Civic Music mi zot ola Whom is she who is rising up built around a surreal poem by Izzeddin Calislar, includes Association’s 2001 “Distinguished Citizen Award” and the Milwaukee min haminbar From the desert Journal Sentinel’s nod as 1989 “Musician of the Year.” Stalheim received jangle and clatter and avian chirping, iron-foundry ketimerot ashan Like smoking billows his Bachelor of Music from Oberlin Conservatory, Oberlin, OH in 1976, pounding, bedlams of overlapping melodies and all ketimerot ashan Like smoking billows and his Master of Music from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in manner of alarms and cries.