Fruity!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Broadcast Live from culture venue Fruit in Hull, performances from the Performing Rights Society's New Music Biennial festival, to mark the city's status as City of Culture this year. Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces a selection of newly-commissioned works from various concerts in the Festival, including

As Above So Below, a collaborative composition/improvisation from Mancunian trio GoGoPenguin (Chris Illingworth, Piano; Nick Blacka, Double Bass; & Rob Turner, Drums);
Winestead (for Tenor, Organ, Viola, Electric Guitar, & 'cello - the work takes its title from the East Yorkshire village where Andrew Marvell was born) by Gavin Bryars (b1943 - within hours of Brian Ferneyhough, coincidentally);
Concerto for Beatboxer & Orchestra by Anna Meredith (b1978);
Pieces about Art by Laurance Crane (b1961) performed by vocal ensemble EXAUDI; and
Bethia for Trumpet, Male Chorus, Carillon, Piano, Synthesizer, and Tape by Hull-born Daniel Elms (b1985).

Looks like a good mix - and I always love it when online sources have difficulty "pigeonholing" Musicians: what, I wonder, is a "humanist post-minimalist"; and WIKI might as well put "that sort of stuff" after their "Electronica, Acoustical, Jazz" description of GoGoPenguin!

10:00pm - Midnight (just time for me to get back from the Cage/Wolff gig in Leeds), Saturday, 1st July, 2017.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wmz1f

[Serial_Apologist]

I'm giving this one the benefit of my doubts.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'm giving this one the benefit of my doubts.

I like it when H&N does this sort of programming - I don't know the work of either GoGoPenguin or Elms; I don't expect much from the Meredith work (judging on past experience) but hope to be pleasantly surprised; and looking forward to the Bryars and Crane pieces, as their work has frequently grabbed my attention in the past.

[Quarky]

Anna Meredith is a star in my book:



H&N, combined with Saturday Classics, suited my mood perfectly.

Katie Derham made a brave attempt at Arabic Dance, but I found her guest too academic.

Odd thought - is Alan Davey aiming at the Resonance FM market?

[Serial_Apologist]

Anna Meredith is a star in my book:

That piece actually made me feel physically sick! Mr Crane's piece was in his usual pleasant style, as were the subsequent pieces, but this ain't exactly modern innit?. I'm obviously becoming more square as I got old(er).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

That piece actually made me feel physically sick! Mr Crane's piece was in his usual pleasant style, as were the subsequent pieces, but this ain't exactly modern innit?. I'm obviously becoming more square as I got old(er).

I was home much later than I'd anticipated from the Wolff and Cage Concert in Leeds, which was itself so good that my head was too full for anything else. I shall consult the i-Player in due course (probably after I've played the new HCR CD of Aaron Cassidy & Liza Lim - a recording of the ELISION concert on 22nd November last - at which I was enthusiastically present. [I presume they've edited out my appreciative expletive at the start of the applause ] Now that's what I call "exactly modern"!

An interesting factlette from the audience at last night's Leeds concert (part of the weekend-long "Performing Indeterminacy" conference): about 49% looked to be my age (late fifties) and older; another 49% late twenties and younger - with only three or four people who looked as if they were in their thirties or forties. Now, this might simply be that particular event, or even just my terrible judgement of people's ages; but chatting with the organizers of the Conference, this is what they regularly find - people born from the late sixties to the mid-'90s just don't have the interest that either the first generation following Cage/Cardew, or the young Musicians rediscovering in the past fifteen years have for "Indeterminate" Music-making.

[ardcarp]

I don't think anyone yet has mentioned the AMAZING vocal piece by Laurence Crane 'Pieces about Art'. It was commissioned by Exaudi, director James Weekes, and given a truly stunning performance during the broadcast:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wmz1f

...about 1hr 15mins from the start.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Mr Crane's piece was in his usual pleasant style

I don't think anyone yet has mentioned the AMAZING vocal piece by Laurence Crane 'Pieces about Art'.

It was also "mentioned" in #3 (and the OP, of course).

[ardcarp]

OK. For 'mentioned' sunstitute 'heard' or 'discussed'.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I still haven't got round to listening yet - but I have greatly enjoyed the Apartment House Crane double album (gatefold!) on anothertimbre:

http://www.anothertimbre.com/laurencecrane.html