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To see upcoming performances of Igudesman & Joo
visit our website www.igudesmanandjoo.com
CINEMA & COMEDY: The Rise and Fall of the
Classical Musician
Concept: Gidon Kremer, Aleksey Igudesman, Richard
Hyung-ki Joo
Written by: Igudesman & Joo with additional texts
by Gidon Kremer and Nadja Maleh
Director: Nadja Maleh
Produced by: Kremer, Igudesman & Joo
Without music life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Dear Concertgoer!
Music and humor—both are languages of the
emotions. Tonights program is an attempt at
dialogue. Join us on a journey through our wacky
hall of mirrors and see for yourself all the weird
and wonderful ways these two languages come
together to reflect the Zeitgeist of the new
millennium.
Not for nothing is the title of this show Cinema
and Comedy.
Cinema—because a lot of the music we perform
today has been featured in well-known (and less
well-known) films.
Comedy—because the universal language of music
avails itself of humor to convey truths that defy
more conventional forms of expression.
Comedy starts where the tools of tragedy fall
short. Tonight is not going to be a night of mere
entertainment. You might laugh until you pee your
pants, so to speak, but issues of the gravest
significance underlie all our priceless wit. One
glance at our subtitle, and you will see just how
much is at stake: The Rise and Fall of the
Classical Musician.
This evenings protagonist, Gidon Kremer, is such
an example of the classical musician. His
real-life experiences serve as our inspiration,
his writings as our starting point. Some parts of
the show are biographical, other parts are the
product of imaginative sympathizing and/or pure
invention.
We live in an age in which the market economy
tyrannizes over art. The quality of an artwork is
judged by the quantity of sales. We all squint at
the sales-volume statistics, the chart placement
and the commercial media presence. The more
popular, the better everyone wants to be a
superstar!
But in consequence, we all too often lose sight of
the true meaning of music: the uplifting union of
feeling and intellect, the intimate and profoundly
emotional expression of the soul.
Cinema and Comedy takes a critical and
entertaining look at classical music through a
magnifying glass. By means of this close-up, we
hope to achieve a healthy distance from all forms
of commercial dumbing-down.
So lets laugh together about whats laughable
tonight, and marvel afresh at musics endless
marvels!
We wish you a wonderful musical journey!
We, meaning Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata
Baltica, Aleksey Igudesman and Richard Hyung-ki
Joo.
Music in its most beautiful form is the
all-healing language of love.
Richard Wagner
These are among the composers whose masterpieces,
or bits of them, you will hear this evening:
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Rota, Dunayevsky,
Herrmann, Morricone, Miller, Chaplin, Schnittke,
Schostakowitsch, Barber, Piazzolla, Igudesman,
Joo, Barry, Lai, Wagner, Brahms, Berg, Pushkarev,
Perren, Fekaris, Gaynor and many more...
Tags : Gidon Kremer Kremerata Baltica Aleksey Igudesman Richard Hyung-ki Joo Cinema and Comedy Classical Piano Violin Mozart Bond Monty Python Victor Borge |
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Affichage : 708
Durée : 117 s |
| ABC News Chicago - young violinists play black composers |
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Violinist Rachel Barton Pine presents repertoire
from the Rachel Elizabeth Barton Foundation's
curriculum project, The String Student's Library
of Music by Black Composers, on ABC News Chicago,
February 26, 2008. Rachel plays "Deep River" by
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), 10-year-old
Ade Williams plays "Deserted Garden" by Florence
Price (1887-1953), and 14-year-old Clayton
Penrose-Whitmore plays "Here's One" by William
Grant Still (1895-1978).
For more information about the Rachel Elizabeth
Barton Foundation, please visit www.rebf.org.
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Affichage : 2315
Durée : 194 s |
| raag Miyan Ki Todi by N. Rajam |
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Legendary violinist N. Rajam (sister of TN
Krishnan, aunt of Kala Ramnath, mother of Sangeeta
Shankar, all famous violinists) playing the
morning raga Miyan Ki Todi (notice the beautiful
morning surroundings: an old temple complex at the
banks of the Ganges, with fishermen busy on the
river and birds chilping in the background) in a
beautiful poetic scene from the documentary film
'Benares, musiques du Gange' (Yves Billon, 1992 ;
France). After many years of studying with
legendary singer Omkarnath Thakur, N. Rajam
completely revolutionized violin playing in North
Indian Hindusthani music by introducing a new
vocal (gayaki) style of playing.
This is a downloadable excerpt from the website of
Patrick Moutal, a great scholar in Indian
Classical Music.
Tags : Pieter de Rooij India morning ragas raags raag raga Miyan Ki Todi violin violinists gayaki N. Rajam Patrick Moutal |
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Affichage : 14143
Durée : 389 s |
| Violin Virtuoso |
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Violin maker Joseph Rashid, 98, of Nevada City,
Calif., has never sold one of the 103 violins that
he made. Rashid's violins have been played by
world class violinists such as Yehudi Menuhin.
Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser recently tried
some of the violins in Rashid's collection.
Tags : violin alasdair fraser rashid nevada city the union music |
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Affichage : 7697
Durée : 297 s |
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