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Yuji Takahashi, "memory bits of EB"
Yuji Takahashi recorded "New Music for Piano(s)" with Earle Brown. He has posted some of his memories of Earle Brown on his website in his own poetic form. Click here to see the page.
BOX III of the CONTEMPORARY SOUND SERIES has now been released in Germany:
Contents:
CD 1 – The Voice of Cathy Berberian
Luciano Berio: Circles (e.e. cummings)
Sylvano Bussotti: Frammento
John Cage: Aria with Fontana Mix
CD 2 – Toshiro Mayuzumi: Nirvana Symphony
Buddhist Cantata for 12-part male chorus and orchestra
CD 3 – New Music for Piano(s)
Iannis Xenakis: Herma
Roger Reynolds: Fantasy for Pianist
Earle Brown: Corroboree
Click here to see a newly added image gallery: photos of Earle Brown's CALDER PIECE
Earle Brown's legendary CONTEMPORARY SOUND SERIES, released in a new edition on WERGO, wins prestigious award for Box II:"Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik".
(To see an overview of the whole series click here.)
Recorded between 1960 and 1973, the original eighteen LPs have been highly sought after in the secondary market since 1978 when they were discontinued. These rare and historically important recordings of international avant-garde music have been carefully digitized and re-mastered by the Earle Brown Music Foundation.
Beginning in July 2009, WERGO will release six 3-CD sets of these recordings until the end of 2011. The series presents the extraordinary world of contemporary and avant-garde music that flourished in Europe, the United States, Latin America and Japan in the 1960s and early 1970s.
The first CD set contains works by, among others, John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel, performed by Christoph Caskel, David Tudor, Aloys and Bernhard Kontarsky, The Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, Paul Price and the ensembles for electronic music, AMM from London (with: Cornelius Cardew, Lou Gare, Christopher Hobbs, Eddie Pr�vost, and Keith Rowe) and MEV Musica Elettronica Viva from Rome (with: Alan Bryant, Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski, Richard Teitelbaum, and Ivan Vandor).
The second CD set within this series contains works by Luigi Nono, Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio, Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle, David Bedford, Richard Orton, Morton Feldman and Earle Brown, performed by The English Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Bruno Maderna; Jacques Castagner, Walter Lewis, Francis Pierre, Walter Trampler and Seymour Barab directed by Luciano Berio; The Pierrot Players under the direction of Peter Maxwell Davies; Mary Thomas, Jane Manning, John Tilbury, Moray Welsh and Richard Orton; Don Hammond, Don Butterfield, David Tudor, Matthew Raimondi and David Soyer.
Read a review of the CONTEMPORARY SOUND SERIES edition in FONO FORUM 11-2009, written by Mario Vogt. (This article is in German.)
Watch ART ENGINE’s Earle Brown Video portrait
NEW ARCHIVE RECORDINGS added:
EARLE BROWN: "TWENTY FIVE PAGES".
A unique archival recording from Radio France in 1979 by three pianists is now available
click here to listen or here to go to the "Twenty Five Pages" page
NEW ARCHIVE RECORDINGS added:
EARLE BROWN: "PERSPECTIVES".
A unique archival recording by pianist David Tudor is now available
Click here to go to the "Perspectives" page, then click on the "Listen" link to hear the recording.
NEW ARCHIVE RECORDINGS added:
EARLE BROWN: "THREE PIECES FOR PIANO".
A unique archival recording by pianist David Tudor is now available
Click here to go to the "Three Pieces for Piano" page, then click on the "Listen" link to hear the recording.
Earle Brown's open form compositions instructions for download added to archive
A set of general instructions for Earle Brown's open form compositions has been added to the website.
Click here to download the pdf.
Those instructions apply to the following compositions:
May 23rd, 2008. Now online at Art21 Blog:
Art21 Video - Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg / Music by Earle Brown. Video by Susan Sollins-Brown, Executive Director, Art21
Susan Sollins-Brown writes about her homage to Robert Rauschenberg:
Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg is an homage to an artist who was my personal hero, and my nemesis, in my student years. He was my hero because of the infallibility of his touch, and the constancy of his ability to invent and re-invent the potency and power of visual art � to push the boundaries of what art could be. He was my nemesis because I saw him as pure genius and his every gesture as perfection � conditions that were not, I thought, possible for others to attain. But my joy and delight in his work continued and my pleasure in talking with him from time to time over the years was enormous.
Curated by Paul Schimmel, Robert Rauschenberg: Combines was shown in early 2006 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. On seeing it there, and upon learning that there were no plans to film it, I asked Bob for permission to do so at the next venue, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
This elegy is dedicated to the memory of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) and to the memory of his friendship with my late husband, Earle Brown (1926-2002), whose music has been intertwined and juxtaposed here with images of the glorious Combines.
Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg has been created from footage filmed by Art21 at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles during the 2006 exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg: Combines. Among the works seen in whole or in part are Minutiae (1954); Interview (1955); Monogram (1955-59); Canyon (1959); Gift for Apollo (1959); Black Market (1961); Empire II (1961); Pantomime (1961); Ace (1962); and Gold Standard (1964).
The video is set to music composed by Earle Brown who, along with Rauschenberg, was a member of a small group of friends in the 1950s that included John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Morton Feldman, Jasper Johns, and Christian Wolff, among others. In the spirit of that long-ago friendship, and in the collaborative spirit of that time and group, excerpts from the following works by Brown have been selected and collaged, with permission of The Earle Brown Music Foundation, for this video: Music for Violin, Cello, & Piano (1952); Octet I (1953); Folio and 4 Systems (1954); String Quartet (1965); New Piece (1971); and Special Events (1999).�
PUBLICATIONS:
EARLE BROWN: "FROM MOTETS TO MATHEMATICS"
is the title of the Contemporary Music Review, Volume 26
Issue editor: Dan Albertson. Order a copy of the book here:
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