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- Hot Damn Jammz 56: Major Jammage
Sometimes we wonder if anyone actually reads these intro blurbs. Like maybe we could start writing about our current obsession with Buffy and no one would even notice? We’re in the middle of revisiting season four and suddenly realized that maybe Willow is the emotional center of the show. Maybe she holds all the power and Buffy is just a vampire/demon killing machine. Also, Spike is hilarious, right? Anyone want to come over tonight and watch a few episodes with us. We’ll provide the snacks….The Proper Ornaments
James and Max make catchy, lo-fi pop that you’ll like. James is also in Veronica Falls.Zipper
Unfortunate name, good new single on Cloudberry Records for this noisy indie pop group from Spain.The Young Sinclairs
Did you know the Byrds were reincarnated by a bunch of bearded dudes from Virginia? It’s true…check out the tune “You Can Have Her” on their MySpace page. Or is it the Beau Brummels? Either way, nice one!Blackhawks
There’s some cool stuff going on in Philly these days. The excellently murky neo-psych these guys offer up being Exhibit A.No Joy
Come on! Perk up! Lazy, hazy dog day summer music with No Joy.Good Housekeeping
Frolic in the garden with the light shoegaze pop sound of Good Housekeeping. They get the Seal of Approval!Concern
Ambient, minimalist tape music from Portland, a la Eluvium or Delicate.Static Rose
Westfield, NJ melodic punk-rockers on tour opening up for the Futureheads.Jai Paul
This twisted, twenty-one year old Londoner hasn't released a proper full-length but he's already making waves with his unique take on futuristic pop.Gauntlet Hair
Small enough to only have 500-some MySpace friends but big enough to have made their Pitchfork debut, this Colorado duo trade in sweeping melodies and crunchy, in-the-red beats.
Переслать - News Roundup: 6/4/2010
Country star Miranda Lambert has scored her first number one single with “The House That Built Me,” which knocked Chris Young’s “The Man I Want To Be” out of the top spot last Thursday. The song is also doing well on the pop charts, where it peaked at number 28 last week and currently rests alongside K$sha’s “TiK ToK” at number 33. [CountryStandardTime.com]Jewel is planning a worldwide broadcast of her upcoming show at Pittsburgh’s PBS studios, which will be piped into select theaters and screening rooms via satellite. Attending one of the screenings costs $25 and includes an advance autographed copy of Jewel’s new album, as well as “a hand-held device that provides direct access to the star,” meaning fans will be able to interact with Jewel and help dictate the set list as the show progresses. [Variety.com]
It’s been a rough year for Interpol, who’ve struggled with the departure of bassist Carlos D and the cancellation of a summer tour (much of which was part of U2’s now-canceled stadium run) in recent weeks. There’s good news, though: the band will release a new self-titled album in September, and former Slint member David Pajo has joined the lineup in Carlos D’s place. [Pitchfork.com]
Although he’s already gathered some of the most disappointing sales numbers in American Idol history, season nine champion Lee DeWyze is still big enough to land a high-profile performance like Game Two of the NBA Finals. He’ll perform this Sunday, making his first major appearance since the Idol finale last week. [NYTimes.com]
Coldplay is now the proud sponsor of a fourth-division cricket club in the Cotswolds. [Guardian.co.uk]
Переслать - Robert Schumann's Other Writing
Robert Schumann’s music is well-known and well-discussed, but although biographies always mention his work as a music critic, his critical writing is not as widely acknowledged or analyzed, or, sometimes, easy to find. (There are only a handful of books translating Schumann’s original texts into English.)
Schumann’s criticisms are found in the journal he established, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, and in his personal journals. The pieces in the periodical usually appeared to have been written by “Florestan,” “Eusebius,” or “Raro,” three fictional characters that Schumann created, each with distinct views toward music and the arts. However, the writing and opinions were all Schumann’s.
His writing combines the poetic with the prosaic, in much the same way his music does. When his intention is to convey the feeling of the music or of a performance, his writing is full of metaphorical imagery. For example, here is his impression of Liszt performing a Konzertstück by Weber:- Beginning the piece with such a force and grandeur of expression that made one think of an attack on a battlefield, he carried this on with continually increasing power up to the passage where the player, as it were, places himself at the head of the orchestra, leading it forward in triumph. Here indeed he resembled that great commander [Napoleon] to whom he has been compared in personal appearance, and the tempestuous applause that greeted him was not unlike an adoring “Vive l’Empereur!” (tr. Paul Rosenfeld, 1946)
There are entertaining moments also. In one article, describing the events of a ball he held for fellow artists, he writes about one guest who is not a particular friend: “Whenever I think of him I discover a whole Shakespearian dictionary of abuse within me” (tr. Fanny Raymond Ritter, 1891).
When Schumann writes about a piece of music in an analytical fashion, he is more grounded and straightforward and can be as dry as any other academic. But sprinkled throughout are phrases and sentences where the dreamer shines through. In talking about Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, Schumann goes through the mechanics of each movement in detail. However, proceeding that is the line: “If only I might succeed in giving my reader, whom I would like to lead up and downstairs through this fabulous edifice, a picture of its various chambers!” (tr. Paul Rosenfeld, 1946). Even within the sere description of the first movement, there is this: “Completely fantastic forms; reminiscent only once, as though broken, of the older ones. Evanescence” (tr. Paul Rosenfeld, 1946). It’s in passages such as this where it’s hard to believe that Schumann started college as a law student and that he ever thought he would have succeeded as a lawyer. It’s obvious that he had the analytical and reasoning skills, and it’s not that lawyers are not inventive or imaginative, but Schumann’s true path led toward a more freely creative and artistic career.
A few other examples of Schumann’s writings:
On Schubert’s C major Symphony, the manuscript of which he discovered while visiting Schubert’s brother —- On hearing Schubert’s symphony and its bright, flowery, romantic life, the city [Vienna] crystallizes before me…. Here we find, besides the most masterly technicalities of musical composition, life in every vein, coloring down to the finest gradation; meaning everywhere; sharp expression in detail; and in the whole a suffusing romanticism such as other works by Franz Schubert have made known to us. (tr. Paul Rosenfeld, 1946)
On A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by his friend, Felix Mendelssohn —
- It seemed almost touching to hear fragments from the overture in some of his more recent compositions; but I could not wholly approve of the finale which almost literally repeats the close of the overture. The composer’s intention in thus rounding off the whole is clear, but it seems to me too intellectual an achievement. He should have endowed this scene with his freshest tones; here, where music could have achieved the greatest effect, I would have expected something original, fire-new. (tr. Paul Rosenfeld, 1946)
Finally, here are some of Schumann’s Musical Rules of Home and Life, published in the second edition of his Album für die Jugend. The complete list may be found on the website of the Schumann Birthplace in Zwickau. Many might say that these are relevant today.
- The so-called ’silent keyboard’ has been invented. Try it for a while and you will see that it is of no use. The silent cannot teach you how to speak.
Eric le Sage, piano – Album für Jungend
Melodie
Wilder Reiter
Do not be afraid of words like: theory, thoroughbass, counterpoint etc. They will treat you kindly if you do likewise.Try to learn to play easy pieces well and beautifully; it is better than a mediocre performance of a difficult piece.
You must not know your pieces only via your fingers; you must also be able to hum them away from the piano. Teach your imagination so that you can recall not just the melody of a composition but also the harmony that goes along with it.
Even if you have a weak voice, try to sing at sight without the help of the instrument; by doing this, the sharpness of your hearing will improve continually. If you have a melodious voice, waste no opportunity to have it trained, and treat it as the finest gift heaven can bestow on you!
Simon Keenlyside, baritone
Dichterliebe, Op. 48 – Im wunderschönen Monat MaiDichterliebe, Op. 48 – Ich grolle nicht
When you are playing, do not concern yourself with whoever may be listening.
If you have done your daily musical work and feel tired, then do not force yourself to go on working. It is better to rest than to work without freshness and pleasure.
When you are older, do not play fashionable pieces. Time is precious. You would need a hundred lifetimes just to get to know all the good pieces there are.
Linus Roth, violin
Sonata for violin & piano No. 2 in D minor, Op. 121 – 3. Leise, einfachSonata for violin & piano No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105 – 3. Lebhaft
Children are not raised healthily by being fed sweets, cakes and sweetmeats. As with food for the body, spiritual food must be plain and wholesome. The latter has been amply provided by the great masters; stick to it.Fancy passage work fades over time. Technical accomplishment is only of value where it serves a higher purpose.
You must not promote bad compositions; on the contrary, you should expend every effort to help suppress them.
Do not search just for technique and so-called bravura. In a composition seek to bring out the expression that the composer had in mind, and no more. Anything beyond that is a caricature.
Changing anything, leaving anything out or adding new-fangled embellishments in pieces by good composers must be considered an abomination. It is the greatest outrage you can inflict upon Art.
Anything in fashion will one day be out of fashion. If you pursue it into your old age you will make a fop of yourself, and nobody will respect you.
Waste no opportunity to make music with other musicians, in duos, trios etc. This makes you play fluently and with animation. Also, accompany singers often.
Quatuor Schumann
Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 47 – Andante cantabile
Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44 – Allegro brillante
If everyone wanted to play first violin, then there would be no orchestras. Each musician should therefore appreciate his proper place.Quatuor Ysaÿe
String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 41/1 – 4. Presto
String Quartet No. 3 in A major, Op. 41/3 – 1. Andante espressivo – Allegro molto moderatoLove your instrument, but do not be so vain as to think it is the most important or the only one. Remember that there are others which are equally beautiful. Remember also that there are singers, and that both choirs and orchestras give expression to the highest things in music.
Among your friends, seek out those who know more than you.
As a respite from your musical studies, read a lot of poetry. Take lots of walks in the fresh air.
A lot can be learned from singers, but do not believe everything they tell you.
Nathalie Stuzmann, contralto – Myrthen, Op. 25 – Widmung
The study of the history of music, together with listening to live performances of masterpieces from different periods, is the quickest cure for complacency and vanity.What, then, does being musical mean? You are not musical if you gaze anxiously at the notes and laboriously play your way through to the end of the piece. Neither are you musical if somebody who is turning for you turns two pages instead of one and you stop and cannot continue. You are musical, however, when you can feel what might be coming in a new piece of music, or in a familiar one; in other words, when you have music not just in your fingers, but in your mind and in your heart.
And how does one become musical? Dear child, the most important things – a good ear and quick perception – like all such things, are sent from above. But your given abilities can be developed and enhanced. You will not do this by shutting yourself up like a hermit and working for days on end on mechanical studies; rather you will do so by taking part in a variety of live musical activities, especially those involving choirs and orchestras.
Acquaint yourself early on with the range of the four main types of human voice; listen to them especially in choirs, find out which intervals have the greatest strength and which others are suitable for soft and gentle treatment.
Bavarian Radio Orchestra & Chorus; Nikolaus Harnoncourt, cond. – Paradies und die Peri (Paradise and the Peri), Op. 50
Part 1. No. 8. Weh, weh, er fehlte das Ziel
Part 3. No. 18. Schmücket die Stufen zu Allahs Thron
Never miss an opportunity to hear good opera!Hold the old in high esteem, yet also warmly embrace the new. Hold no prejudice against names unknown to you.
Do not judge a composition on a single hearing; the things that first catch your attention are not always the best. The great masters must be studied. Many things will only become clear to you in later life.
‘Melody’ is the battlecry of dilettantes, and certainly music without a melody is no music at all. But be clear about this: What they mean by melody is but something simple and pleasantly rhythmic. However, there are other melodies of quite a different kind, and if you look at Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, they will greet you in a thousand different forms. Then, hopefully, you will soon become weary of the meager monotony of the latest Italian opera melodies.
Learn early on about conducting, and watch good conductors often; even try to conduct pieces alone in your head, where you are your own master. This will bring you clarity.
Swedish Chamber Orchestra; Thomas Dausgaard, cond. –
Manfred Overture, Op. 115
Take a good look at life, including other art forms and sciences.The laws of morality are also those of Art.
The road to improve is always through hard work and perseverance.
Without enthusiasm, nothing worthwhile can be accomplished in Art.
The purpose of Art is not to acquire wealth. Just strive always to be a better and better artist; everything else will follow of its own accord.
Somebody once opined that a consummate musician is one who, on first hearing a complex orchestral work, can visualize it as if it were before him. This is the highest level imaginable.
Liepzig Gewandhausorchestrer; Riccardo Chailly, cond. – Symphony No. 1 in B flat major (“Spring”), Op. 38
1. Andante un poco maestoso – Allegro molto vivace
3. Scherzo: Molto vivace – Trio 1: Molto piu vivace – Tempo 1 – Trio 2: (Molto vivace)
There is no end to learning.Переслать - News Roundup: 6/3/2010
Paul McCartney became the third musician to receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song on Wednesday night, joining Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder. President Barack Obama presented McCartney with the award, then McCartney performed a few songs, including “Michelle,” which he dedicated to First Lady Michelle Obama. Wonder joined McCartney in a performances of “We Can Work It Out” and “Ebony and Ivory,” while Jack White performed “Mother Nature’s Son” and Dave Grohl did “Band on the Run.” The ceremony was taped for a PBS special that will air in July. [Stereogum.com]In other celebratory news, singer/songwriter and composer Randy Newman got the 2,411th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Wednesday. Newman’s songwriting career spawned hits such as “I Love L.A.” and “Short People,” and his song “If I Didn’t Have You” from Monsters, Inc. earned him a Best Original Song Oscar. In addition, Newman has two Emmys and five Grammys. [AOLNews.com]
The New York Times has issued a correction for Lynn Hirschberg’s controversial article on M.I.A., conceding that some of the piece’s quotes were from different parts of the interview and had been edited together. Over Memorial Day weekend, M.I.A. posted audio clips of the interview on her website to prove that the quotes had been doctored. [Pitchfork.com]
The Pixies are taking their Doolittle tour to the States and launching an official website to boot. The band will play 11 dates throughout September, performing in an ambitious set that features custom films and eyeball-like spheres. The website, PixiesMusic.com, is the band’s first official web presence. [Blurt-Online.com]
Billboard reports just how slow 2009’s music sales were: Just 12 albums released that year sold more than a million units, while only 771 of the entire 97,751 albums released in 2009 sold more than 5,000 units. Additionally, not only did the drop in sales from the first week of release to the second increase, but the number of new albums released last year dropped by almost 3,000 titles. [Billboard.com]
Gary, Indiana is moving ahead with plans to build a Michael Jackson museum in the singer’s hometown. The complex, which will include a hotel, and performing arts center, will cost $300 million of private funds. However, the Jackson estate is not involved with these plans and intends to build its own museum to the singer in a still-to-be-determined location. A lawyer for the city mentioned that Jackson had made a commitment to build a performing arts center in Gary in 2003. If the city’s plans are finalized, groundbreaking will start in early 2011; the museum is expected to attract 750,000 visitors a year. [MTV.com]
Godspeed You! Black Emperor proved just how diverse their taste in music is by adding Weird Al Yankovic to the roster of their upcoming ATP Festival. Weird Al joins the likes of Deerhoof, the Ex and Neurosis at the event, which will run from December 3 – 5. [Gigwise.com]
Smog’s Bill Callahan has always been a literary songwriter, and now he has a book on the way. Letters to Emma Bowlcut, an epistolary novel that tells its story via documents, will hit shelves on July 20. Callahan describes the book as “an epic poem in the form of letters” that took several years to complete. [Exclaim.ca]
Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks just might be the most beautiful android ever in the lavish video for Broken Bells’ “The Ghost Inside.” [SomeKindofAwesome.com]
Переслать - The Summer Jams 2010: Sky Ferreira – "One"
Sky Ferreira is your basic precocious teen with a pout and an unpronounceable last name. Unlike your average kid though, she has some cred, having appeared in a Justice video, sung with Bloody Beetroots and the Virgins, and made friends with Britney. Plus, though it’s kind of corny to mention it, the influences section on her MySpace page lists Vanity 6, Lio and April March along with standbys like Elton John and Prince.She cut a single last year called “17″ that was okay but a little serious and boring. No such problem with “One.” It’s produced by Bloodshy & Avant and the duo give the rather slight, bubblegummy tune a gleaming electropop sheen full of blips, bleeps and vocal manipulations. It’s super-easy to imagine the song leaking through cheap headphones and earbuds at beaches all summer long.
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