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Sonny Stitt, New York City, 1953
Herman Leonard
Nigerian Marketplace | Oscar Peterson Trio
Montreux Jazz Festival, 1981
- Oscar Peterson piano
- Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen bass
- Terry Clark drums
Let’s Burn Down the Cornfield (arranged by H.B. Barnum)
Lou Rawls | You’ve Made Me So Very Happy (1970)
I have a new favourite song.
Let’s Burn Down the Cornfield (Rawls) | Randy Newman and Ry Cooder | 12 Songs (1970)
Live at the Odeon, New York 1983
Ladybug Mecca
In the 70’s, Rainer Wehinger created a visual listening score to accompany György Ligeti’s Artikulation.
Nude | Radiohead
Live from the basement
don’t get any big ideas
they’re not gonna happen
you paint yourself white
and fill up with noise
but there’ll be something missing
now that you’ve found it, it’s gone
now that you feel it, you don’t
you’ve gone off the rails
so don’t get any big ideas
they’re not gonna happen
you’ll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking
Street (2012) | James Nares
STREET is an unscripted 61-minute high definition video filmed by artist James Nares over one week in September 2011.
The final video is a mesmerizing experiment in the nuance and beauty of everyday people and people-watching; providing a global view that extends beyond the streets of New York where it was filmed: from Battery Park to the furthest reaches of Upper Broadway, and West Side to East Side in Nares’ personal homage to actualité films.
In Nares’ words, “I wanted the film to be about people. All it needed were magical moments, and there are enough of those happening every moment of any given day.”
The soundtrack for the film was composed and performed by Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore.
No Rain | Blind Melon
Live for 2 Meter Sessies, Netherlands 1993
Ballad and Dance (Baladă şi Joc)
György Ligeti
- Irvine Arditti violin I
- David Alberman violin II
It Ain’t Necessarily So (Gershwin) | Enrico Rava | Renaissance (2003)
- Enrico Rava trumpet
- Stefano Bollani piano
- Rosario Bonaccorso bass
- Roberto Gata drums
Glenn Gould’s hands, 1955
Gordon Parks
(Source: mpdrolet, via lynellgeorge)
Adiós Nonino | Ástor Piazzolla & Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester
in Ástor Piazzolla: The Next Tango (1986)
directed by José Mentes-Baquer
II. The Progressive Ossification of Harry Eastlack
(Variations on a Descending Bass)
Collective Uncommon: Seven Orchestral Studies on Medical Oddities
Brian Ciach
The second study, The Progressive Ossification of Harry Eastlack, is a set of variations on a descending bass in three progressively slower sections. Harry’s disorder, Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva, is a rare and poorly understood disease in which the bone repair mechanism runs out of control, turning other tissue like muscles and tendons into bone. Each section of the movement attempts to reflect this progressively immobilizing disorder: “The Truncated Life” suddenly stops short, reflecting the end of mobility; “The Oppression” repeats two stubborn and somber notes in the clarinet (as the bass line falls, the texture of this static melody thickens); the next section, “The Liberation of Death”, releases the oppressive immobility in an enlightened and lyrical free section.
Indiana University Concert Orchestra
conducted by David Effron
October 9, 2011
Musical Arts Center
Bloomington, Indiana
