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alembic_doctor
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Post Number: 195
Registered: 8-2002
Posted on Monday, March 12, 2007 - 2:33 pm:   Edit Post

http://www.well.com/user/bryan/waltz.html
keith_h
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Post Number: 715
Registered: 2-2005
Posted on Monday, March 12, 2007 - 2:39 pm:   Edit Post

More works from Bryan.
olieoliver
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Post Number: 1183
Registered: 2-2006
Posted on Monday, March 12, 2007 - 6:01 pm:   Edit Post

What the,....is that a,...where is....that uh.....................
olieoliver
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Post Number: 1184
Registered: 2-2006
Posted on Monday, March 12, 2007 - 6:02 pm:   Edit Post

....................................................................never mind,.......I need a nap.....
byoung
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Post Number: 549
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Monday, March 12, 2007 - 6:58 pm:   Edit Post

Ow.

My tummy hurts.
chuck
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Post Number: 86
Registered: 3-2005
Posted on Monday, March 12, 2007 - 7:24 pm:   Edit Post

This is hilarious, Ten bucks to ten first person that can play this.

Chuck
jazzyvee
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Post Number: 779
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Monday, March 12, 2007 - 11:05 pm:   Edit Post

I don't mind taking a solo in bar 5 if you like....lol
Jazzyvee
foth
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Username: foth

Post Number: 141
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - 1:42 am:   Edit Post

I'd like to hear the original cro-magnon skinning chant.
terryc
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Post Number: 125
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 7:53 am:   Edit Post

Okay I have just picked up on this one..this has got to be a joke..has anyone tried to download from Limewire yet??
I think this score can best be described as getting as many string intruments as you can and throwing them in a cement mixer and recording the resultant cacophony
Is it a early April Fools joke??
adriaan
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Username: adriaan

Post Number: 1393
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 8:25 am:   Edit Post

Hm, there was one of those in the solfège class room - but I never bothered to look at it in sufficient detail. The captions are hilarious!

Anyone for a bit of Ives?
beelee
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Username: beelee

Post Number: 173
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 3:08 pm:   Edit Post

This is a riot...........LMAO !!!!

Cool Timpani with small fan..............insert peanuts............gradually become agitated...........like a dirigible.................release the penguins..................remove cattle from stage.....................bow real fast slippage may occur.......balance your chair on 2 legs

rotfl !!!!
pace
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Username: pace

Post Number: 316
Registered: 4-2004
Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 3:21 pm:   Edit Post

I had a professor in school who would make a good amount of $$$ on the side composing works that were impossible (or damn near) to perform.... just a thought....
adriaan
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Username: adriaan

Post Number: 1394
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 - 2:28 am:   Edit Post

Pace - is that a joke on the professor's avant-garde music? Bands like Doctor Nerve can play improbably complicated pieces, but they don't exactly rake in the money.
jags
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Post Number: 129
Registered: 12-2006
Posted on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 - 5:00 am:   Edit Post

stu hamm may be able to get a grip on this piece of sheet music
laytonco
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Post Number: 66
Registered: 3-2005
Posted on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 - 11:08 am:   Edit Post

FOR SALE: All my musical equipment. I quit!
jazzyvee
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Post Number: 800
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 - 11:33 am:   Edit Post

I'm more than happy to take your tribute off you then :-)
Jazzyvee
pace
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Username: pace

Post Number: 319
Registered: 4-2004
Posted on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 - 3:30 pm:   Edit Post

No Adriaan, no joke. The money is in publishing a score and selling it to the avant conductor who is looking for a challenge.....

Ballet Mechanique existed and was attempted for how many years before Paul Lehrman pulled it off a few years back?!?
adriaan
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Username: adriaan

Post Number: 1397
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 2:06 am:   Edit Post

Pace - I didn't know Lehrman. The Antheil site - quite an enjoyable site! - mentions the Ensemble Moderne's earlier performances:

quote:

Until the 1990s, this version of the piece had never been performed in its original instrumentation, since the technology for linking and synchronizing multiple player pianos, whether 4 or 16, although theoretically possible when Antheil conceived the piece, turned out not to be practical. The European-based Ensemble Moderne was the first to attempt the piece: in 1996 and 1999, they performed it in Germany and France using two custom-modified MIDI-driven player pianos to play the 16 parts, and six pianists to play the two human parts.


I have the Ensemble Moderne "Fighting the waves" CD, but can't find the issue date right now - so Lehrman in 1999 was probably the US première of the original score, but Europe got there first (well, Antheil's original premières were in Europe too, so blèh).

Here's a sample from the Lithuanian Night section of the Ballet Méchanique, from the Ensembe Moderne CD - unfortunately no player pianos to be heard. The player allows you to select samples from other CDs as well.

(Message edited by adriaan on April 05, 2007)
pace
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Username: pace

Post Number: 320
Registered: 4-2004
Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 9:20 pm:   Edit Post

Adriaan,
I was a stage tech for Lehrman's performance (I actually think I got credited on the album too!).... Yamaha was gratious enough to loan us the 16 player pianos~ that was the one aspect of the score that had never been pulled off before. Having all of those pianos going onstage at the same time was insane.

Thanks for the links!!!
-Mike
adriaan
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Username: adriaan

Post Number: 1398
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Friday, April 06, 2007 - 3:55 am:   Edit Post

Mike,

You win hands down! Ensemble Moderne did it with 2 player pianos for the 16 parts - wussies!

That must have been quite an experience. Did you run into any propellors?
pace
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Username: pace

Post Number: 321
Registered: 4-2004
Posted on Friday, April 06, 2007 - 6:58 am:   Edit Post

Adriaan,

Id love to hear another performance of it.... Considering that a lot of the player piano parts are doubled, you can definitely do it with less.... Lehrman wrote the book on MIDI, literally. So syncing up the 16 pianos was the challenge at the time. Unfortunately the propellors were "flown in"... if you look at the pics from the Lowell show, you can see the speakers on sticks behind some of the player pianos..... But the bell alarms were real & on rigging above the ensemble. The most intense part of the performance were the two "human" pianists.... I still remember watching Juanita Tsu bang out some of those sequences with a fierce amount of energy.

Sorry to hijack the thread.... :-)
-Mike
adriaan
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Username: adriaan

Post Number: 1400
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Friday, April 06, 2007 - 7:23 am:   Edit Post

What thread? You lost me there. ;-)

(Message edited by adriaan on April 06, 2007)

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