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The Choral Compositions of Arvo Pärt As an Example of “God-Seeking” Through Music in Soviet Russia
Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 59(1-2), 85-101. doi: 10.2143/JECS.59.1.2023428 T©HE 2007 CHORAL by Journal COMPOSITIONS of Eastern Christian OF ARVO Studies. PÄRT All rights reserved. 85 THE CHORAL COMPOSITIONS OF ARVO PÄRT AS AN EXAMPLE OF “GOD-SEEKING” THROUGH MUSIC IN SOVIET RUSSIA TATIANA SOLOVIOVA* 1. EMERGING FROM THE UNDERGROUND OF ‘OFFICIAL ATHEISM’ OF THE SOVIET ERA Arvo Pärt was a representative of the underground music in the former Soviet Union. His music, like the works of many other musicians and art- ists, did not fit within the narrow bosom of Socialist Realism – the prevail- ing ideology of the time.1 He had to struggle in order to write the music he wanted. Nowadays there is no Soviet Empire anymore, and the composi- tions of Pärt represent “the face” of contemporary music. He is one of the few composers whose art music enjoys success similar to that of pop. He is widely known, and his works are being performed all over the world. Arvo Pärt was born in 1935 in Paide, near Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, one of the Western republics within the former USSR. Between the First and the Second World War this little country enjoyed a short period of in- dependence. Life for Pärt till 1980 was inseparably connected with his Motherland Estonia on one hand, and with Russia, which was the political and cultural dominant at that time, on the other hand. Pärt knew and loved national traditions, as well as he knew European and Russian culture: he called the composer Glazunov who taught his teacher Heino Eller ‘my musi- * Tatiana Soloviova studied at Moscow State University and obtained her PhD in His- tory. -
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THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN MADE POSSIBLE BY DONORS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS DEAN'S FUND FOR EXCELLENCE AND THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA SCHOOL OF MUSIC. RECORDED IN CROWDER HALL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA SCHOOL OF MUSIC ON JANUARY 20-21 AND MAY 21-23, 2007. NOTES BY BRIAN LUCE, WITH THANKS TO LAUREL FAY OF G. SCHIRMER INC. FLUTE: YAMAHA YFL991-H PIANO: STEINWAY MODEL-D SONATA, OP. 14 BY ROBERT MUCZYNSKI, SONATA BY VERNE REYNOLDS AND CANZONE, OP. 38 BY SAMUEL BARBER ARE PUBLISHED BY CARL FISCHER. SONATA BY EDISON DENISOV IS PUBLISHED BY C.F. PETERS. SONATINA IN B MINOR BY GALINA SMIRNOVA IS PUBLISHED BY SOVETSKA MUZYKIA, GOS. MUZYKALNOE IZD-VO. SONATA BY OTAR TAKTAKISHVILI IS PUBLISHED BY ASSOCIATED MUSIC PUBLISHERS. RECORDING AND MIXING ENGINEER: WILEY ROSS ASSISTANT ENGINEER: MARYRUTH CULVER MICROPHONES: DPA 4003, DPA 4004, AND AEA R84 MICROPHONE PREAMP: MILLENA HV-3D 8 AD/DA CONVERSION: LYNX AURORA 16 CONSOLE: YAMAHA 02R96 WORKSTATION: MOTU DIGITAL PERFORMER MONITORS: DUNLAVY SC-4A AND SC-1A ALBANY RECORDS U.S. TROY1059 915 BROADWAY, ALBANY, NY 12207 TEL: 518.436.8814 FAX: 518.436.0643 ALBANY RECORDS U.K. BOX 137, KENDAL, CUMBRIA LA8 0XD TEL: 01539 824008 © 2008 ALBANY RECORDS MADE IN THE USA WARNING: COPYRIGHT SUBSISTS IN ALL RECORDINGS ISSUED UNDER THIS LABEL. MUSIC OF THE SUPERPOWERS SPUTNIK,SPIES, AND THE SPACE RACE BRIAN LUCE, FLUTE REX WOODS, PIANO WORKS BY ROBERT MUCZYNSKI EDISON DENISOV VERNE REYNOLDS GALINA SMIRNOVA SAMUEL BARBER OTAR TAKTAKISHVILI THE As events and figures of the Cold War are still emerging MUSIC from the shadows, recent revelations are only now begin- ning to show just how turbulent the decade of the 1960s really was. -
Wilson Poffenberger, Saxophone
KRANNERT CENTER DEBUT ARTIST: WILSON POFFENBERGER, SAXOPHONE CASEY GENE DIERLAM, PIANO Sunday, April 14, 2019, at 3pm Foellinger Great Hall PROGRAM KRANNERT CENTER DEBUT ARTIST: WILSON POFFENBERGER, SAXOPHONE Casey Gene Dierlam, piano Maurice Ravel Ma Mère L’Oye (“Mother Goose”) (1875-1937) Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant (arr. by Wilson Poffenberger) Petit Poucet Laideronnette, Impératrice des Pagodes Les entretiens de la Belle et de la Bête Le jardin férique Florent Schmitt Légende, Op. 66 (1870-1958) Gabriel Fauré Après un rêve, Op. 7, No. 1 (1845-1924) (arr. by Wilson Poffenberger) 20-minute intermission Johann Sebastian Bach Partita No. 2 in D Minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1004 (1685-1750) Allemande (arr. by Wilson Poffenberger) Edison Denisov Sonate (1929-1996) Allegro Lento Allegro moderato Fernande Decruck Sonate en Ut# (1896-1954) Trés modéré, espressif Noël Fileuse Nocturne et Final 2 THE ACT OF GIVING OF ACT THE THANK YOU FOR SPONSORING THIS PERFORMANCE With deep gratitude, Krannert Center thanks all 2018-19 Patron Sponsors and Corporate and Community Sponsors, and all those who have invested in Krannert Center. Please view their names later in this program and join us in thanking them for their support. This event is supported by: * TERRY & BARBARA ENGLAND LOUISE ALLEN Four Previous Sponsorships Twelve Previous Sponsorships * NADINE FERGUSON ANONYMOUS Nine Previous Sponsorships Four Previous Sponsorships *PHOTO CREDIT: ILLINI STUDIO HELP SUPPORT THE FUTURE OF THE ARTS. BECOME A KRANNERT CENTER SPONSOR BY CONTACTING OUR ADVANCEMENT TEAM TODAY: KrannertCenter.com/Give • [email protected] • 217.333.1629 3 PROGRAM NOTES The art of transcription is celebrated by Wilson The first of the five pieces, “Pavane de la Belle Poffenberger’s demanding work for this program. -
Musical Contents and Symbolic Interpretation in Sofia Gubaidulina’S “Two Paths: a Dedication to Mary and Martha”
MUSICAL CONTENTS AND SYMBOLIC INTERPRETATION IN SOFIA GUBAIDULINA’S “TWO PATHS: A DEDICATION TO MARY AND MARTHA” DMA DOCUMENT Presented in Partial Fulfillment of Requirements for the degree Doctor of Musical Arts in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Young-Mi Lee, M.Ed. ***** The Ohio State University 2007 Document Committee: Approved by Professor Jan Radzynski, Adviser Professor Donald Harris Professor Margarita Mazo Adviser Music Graduate Program ABSTRACT Sofia Gubaidulina has been known for using symbolic devices in her music to express her Christian belief. Two paths: A Dedication to Mary and Martha for two violas and orchestra (1998) effectively represents Gubaidulina’s musical aesthetic which is based on the idea of dichotomy. In the wide stretch over various genres, many pieces reflect her dual worldview that implies an irreconcilable conflict between the holy God and the worldly human. She interprets her vision of contradictory attributes between divinity and mortality, one celestial and the other earthly, by creating and applying musical symbols. Thus, Gubaidulina employs the concept of binary opposition as many of her works involve extreme contrasts, conflicts, and tension. In this document I will analyze the musical content in detail. Then I will examine the symbolic devices in terms of dichotomy, which explains how Gubaidulina uses the same musical metaphor in her works and how she employs and develops the musical devices to represent her religious vision. I expect that those findings of my study would explain the symbolic aspect of the music of Sofia Gubaidulina, music rooted in her spiritual insight. ii Dedicated to my parents iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First of all, I praise my Lord who made it possible to complete this document. -
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Saint-Saens, with Canadian pianist, Stdphane Lemelin, has received high praise and is now into its second printing. Her second CD, with Stephane Lemelin as her partner, in music for cello and piano by American composers has recently been released on SRI. Canadian pianist Roger Admiral is a DMUS graduate of the University of Alberta. Currently he teaches electroacoustic music in the Department of Music. Roger's main teachers include Helmut Brauss, Peter Smith and Virginia Blaha. He has participated in masterclasses with Cecile Ousset, Paul Badura-Skoda, Boris Berman and Claude Helffer. Roger is a past recipient of the Johann Strauss Foundation scholarships, enabling him to study Lied-duo performance with Paul Schilawsky and Charles Spencer at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. From 1990 to 1993 Roger was a member of a piano and percussion quartet called The Hammerhead Consort. During that time the Consort was awarded the Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Award and a first prize in Oit'JjL the CIBC National Music Competition. Many of Roger's performances as a soloist and chamber musician have been broadcast on the local and national networks of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. John McCormlck is a graduate of the University of Alberta where he received his Bachelor of Music degree. He has studied at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, with Forest Clarke(Los Angeles), Frank Epstein (Boston Symphony), and is presently performing with the Edmonton Symphony. Mr McCormick is a founding member of the Kashim Percussion Ensemble, is a frequent William H Street, saxophone clinician throughout Alberta, has taught at MusiCamrose, the Sifton Summerfest, and the Spectra Summer Arts Festival, and is teaching percussion at Alberta College with Conservatory and conducting the Alberta College Percussion Ensemble. -
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC/SMC)
Conference Program 40th International Computer Music Conference joint with the 11th Sound and Music Computing conference Music Technology Meets Philosophy: From digital echos to virtual ethos ICMC | SMC |2014 14-20 September 2014, Athens, Greece ICMC|SMC|2014 14-20 September 2014, Athens, Greece Programme of the ICMC | SMC | 2014 Conference 40th International Computer Music Conference joint with the 11th Sound and Music Computing conference Editor: Kostas Moschos PuBlished By: x The National anD KapoDistrian University of Athens Music Department anD Department of Informatics & Telecommunications Panepistimioupolis, Ilissia, GR-15784, Athens, Greece x The Institute for Research on Music & Acoustics http://www.iema.gr/ ADrianou 105, GR-10558, Athens, Greece IEMA ISBN: 978-960-7313-25-6 UOA ISBN: 978-960-466-133-6 Ξ^ĞƉƚĞŵďĞƌϮϬϭϰʹ All copyrights reserved 2 ICMC|SMC|2014 14-20 September 2014, Athens, Greece Contents Contents ..................................................................................................................................................... 3 Sponsors ..................................................................................................................................................... 4 Preface ....................................................................................................................................................... 5 Summer School ....................................................................................................................................... -
Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music in 1956-2015
Between Connotation and Denotation. Posters Announcing the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music in 1956-2015 MARIUSZ KNOROWSKI Muzeum Plakatu w Wilanowie Email: [email protected] Between Connotation and Denotation. Posters Announcing the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music in 1956-2015 Musicology Today • Vol. 14 • 2017 DOI: 10.1515/muso-2017-0007 ABSTRACT by the euphoria that accompanied the “thaw”, anticipated by Ilya Erenburg’s eponymous novel. This new direction of The posters that accompany the successive Warsaw Autumn Festival activity was mostly targeted at the intelligentsia, particularly editions are a unique collection of works, mostly of outstanding – the younger generations, which could give the projected quality. One might venture the thesis that their artistic value – living up to the high demands of the topic – exceeds the typical standards metamorphosis a proper momentum and lend credibility of representation characteristic of popular art. Formally speaking, they to the new state patronage and its open character. abandon the conventions of egalitarian iconographic art in favour of As it unfortunately soon turned out, reality could a more elite-oriented visual formula, addressed to a competent audience not live up to these excessive expectations, and the knowledgeable about contemporary music and its qualities. The authors postulated “revival” (in Polish odnowa, which some of these WA posters include many artists associated with the Polish school, such as Jan Lenica, Jan Młodożeniec, Julian Pałka, Waldemar sarcastic commentators spelt separately as od nowa – Świerzy, Henryk Tomaszewski, and Wojciech Zamecznik. Their graphic “all over again”, da capo al fine) soon suffocated in the representations of the achievements of the musical avant-garde do not, clouds of dogmaticism. -
Edison Denisov Contemporary Music Studies
Edison Denisov Contemporary Music Studies A series of books edited by Peter Nelson and Nigel Osborne, University of Edinburgh, UK Volume 1 Charles Koechlin (1867–1950): His Life and Works Robert Orledge Volume 2 Pierre Boulez—A World of Harmony Lev Koblyakov Volume 3 Bruno Maderna Raymond Fearn Volume 4 What’s the Matter with Today’s Experimental Music? Organized Sound Too Rarely Heard Leigh Landy Additional volumes in preparation: Stefan Wolpe Austin Clarkson Italian Opera Music and Theatre Since 1945 Raymond Fearn The Other Webern Christopher Hailey Volume 5 Linguistics and Semiotics in Music Raymond Monelle Volume 6 Music Myth and Nature François-Bernard Mache Volume 7 The Tone Clock Peter Schat Volume 8 Edison Denisov Yuri Kholopov and Valeria Tsenova Volume 9 Hanns Eisler David Blake Cage and the Human Tightrope David Revill Soviet Film Music: A Historical Perspective Tatyana Yegorova This book is part of a series. The publisher will accept continuation orders which may be cancelled at any time and which provide for automatic billing and shipping of each title in the series upon publication. Please write for details. Edison Denisov by Yuri Kholopov and Valeria Tsenova Moscow Conservatoire Translated from the Russian by Romela Kohanovskaya harwood academic publishers Australia • Austria • Belgium • China • France • Germany • India Japan • Malaysia • Netherlands • Russia • Singapore • Switzerland Thailand • United Kingdom • United States Copyright © 1995 by Harwood Academic Publishers GmbH. All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. -
MUSICA INTELLECTUALIS 01.Indb
1 INTELLECTUALIS TOM1 ą ą ś ł Katarzyna Arnhold Ś ść ęć ń ł ż Paweł Gusnar ę ą ź Alicja Kozak ś ą ł ą ą ł ł Robert Cieśla ł ę ł ś ą Ł Marta Dziewanowska-Pachowska ź ę Anthony Gritten ę ą ą ń Roman Lasocki ż ń ą Marcin T. Łukaszewski ł ą ś ł ł ż Ł Jerzy Marchwiński ą ęść ł ę ł Ewa Skardowska ąż Sławomir Tomasik Małgorzata Waszak Andrzej Wrbel Droga artysty MUSICA INTELLECTUALIS to seria publikacji zbiorowych Uniwersytetu Muzycznego Fryderyka Chopina, zapoczątkowana niniejszym tomem. Zamierzeniem pomysłodawców jest, by seria ta ewoluowała w kierunku naukowego czasopisma uniwersyteckiego o profi lu artystycznym, które stworzy intelektualną i sprawozdawczą płaszczyznę komunikacji w naszej uczelni, obejmującą różne formy prezentacji zagadnień dotyczących muzyki: od naukowych dysertacji, przez rozważania na temat sztuki wykonawczej i kształcenia, po teksty publicystyczne. Musica Intellectualis służy prezentowaniu wyników badań prowadzonych przede wszystkim przez osoby związane z UMFC – profesorów, pracowników uczelni, doktorantów, absolwentów i studentów – ale jest otwarta również dla autorów z innych ośrodków artystycznych i naukowych. Zintegrowanie myśli twórczej w ramach jednej platformy komunikacyjnej daje szansę wypowiedzi zarówno teoretykom muzyki, jak i przedstawicielom kierunków wykonawczych. Materiały w Musica Intellectualis ukazują się w języku polskim w postaci artykułów, recenzji, sprawozdań i wywiadów, przyporządkowanych do kilku bloków tematycznych: Szkice i refl eksje, Sylwetki, Studia, Sztuka wykonawcza i kształcenie oraz Varia – wydarzenia, płyty, książki. Wszystkie teksty (poza działem Varia) są opatrzone biogramami autorów w języku polskim i angielskim. Artykuły recenzowane (zamieszczone w dziale Studia) zawierają streszczenia i słowa kluczowe w dwóch wersjach językowych. Szczegółowe informacje o wymaganiach odnośnie do zgłaszanych tekstów znajdują się na stronie internetowej Chopin University Press. -
Opera & Ballet 2017
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Jelena Firsova August 2019
Jelena Firsova August 2019 Jelena Firsova was born in St. Petersburg and studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Alexander Pirumov (composition), Yuri Cholopov (analysis) and Nikolai Raskatov (orchestration). From 1975 she was in intensive musical contact with Edison Denisov, who also introduced her to Philipp Herschkowitz, one of the Webern pupils, who emigrated from Moscow to Vienna. Beginning 1979 her works were first performed with great success in the West. In the same year, she and her husband, the composer Dmitri Smirnov, were attacked by the Soviet Composers Union as "not Soviet-worthy". In 1990, together with Edison Denisov, she co-founded the Russian Society for New Music (ASM). In the course of the Perestroika, Elena Firsova first received permission to travel abroad and moved to England in 1991, where she lives with her family and works as a lecturer and freelance composer. Firsova is a master of the contemporary compositional techniques, and her compositional language is by no means one- sidedly oriented in style and expression. She further develops the ideas of the Second Viennese School and attaches particular importance to melodic motifs. To date has created more than 100 works, including operas, cantatas, concerts, orchestral works, as well as chamber music. She received a composition commission for the Expo 2000. Her "Akhmatova Requiem" was premiered on September 2003 at the Berliner Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt. Text sources: Sikorski and Boosey & Hawkes. Photos: Up Boosey & Hawkes, right in February 1989 with Sofia Gubaidulina, Edison Denisov, and Dmitri Smirnov. Photo D. Smirnov. Oxana Arkaeva ©. All rights reserved. 1 8 Questions for Jelena Firsova August 2019. -
Content and Musical Language in the Piano Sonata of Sofia
CONTENT AND MUSICAL LANGUAGE IN THE PIANO SONATA OF SOFIA GUBAIDULINA, AND THREE RECITALS WITH WORKS BY BACH, BEETHOVEN, MOZART, CHOPIN, SCHUMANN, DEBUSSY, AND RACHMANINOV Ivana Cojbasic, B.S., M.S. APPROVED: Major Professor M or Professor Co 7 ember Dean of the College of Music Dean of the Robert B. Toulouse School of Graduate Studies 374 nrOrd A/O* L!73 CONTENT AND MUSICAL LANGUAGE IN THE PIANO SONATA OF SOFIA GUBAIDULINA, AND THREE RECITALS WITH WORKS BY BACH, BEETHOVEN, MOZART, CHOPIN, SCHUMANN, DEBUSSY, AND RACHMANINOV DISSERTATION Presented to the Graduate Council of the University of North Texas in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS By Ivana Cojbasic, B. Mus., M.M. Denton, Texas December, 1998 I -lr Cojbasic, Ivana, Content and musical language in the Piano Sonata of Sofia Gubaidulina, and three recitals with works by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Debussy, and Rachmaninov. Doctor of Musical Arts (Performance), December, 1998, 103 pp., 1 table, 60 examples, 46 titles. Sofia Gubaidulina is one of the leading composers in the contemporary music world. Her compositional interests have been stimulated by the exploration of and improvisation with rare folk and ritual instruments, and by a deep-rooted belief in the mystical properties of music. Gubaidulina is the author of orchestral and choral works, compositions for solo instruments, chamber music, as well as electronic music. Gubaidulina's Piano Sonata sums up the composer's thinking within her piano music, and at the same time projects the development of her spiritual vision within other genres that are to come.