Haba Memorial Concert

For general information:

I will participate with my quartertone guitar on a Czech EURORADIO concert
with 20th century Microtonal Compositions ('Alois Haba, his contemporaries
and followers').
Date of concert: 13 September 1999 (deferred broadcast 27 September 1999)
Venue of concert: Martinu Hall, Lichtenstein Palace, Prague
Concert starts at 18.30 GMT
Program:

Haba - Suite for violin (36ET)
Wyschnegradsky - Ein St�ck f�r das Vierteltonklavier/ Trauergesang (24ET)
Haba - Suite for trombonequartet Op. 72
Haba - String Quartet Nr. 16 (30ET)
Haba - Suite Nr. 2 f�r Vierteltongitarre, Op. 63 (24ET)
Slavko Osterc - Vier Heinelieder f�r h�here Stimme und Streichquartett
(24ET)
Jaroslev Jezek - Four pieces for the quarter-tone piano

15 October 1999 I will do a concert in collaboration with the french harpist
Francis PIERRE during the Semaines Musicales Internationales d'Orl�ans in
France. The program includes several microtonal compositions:
Philippe Leroux - IAL (24ET) for guitar and celtic harp (guitar is 12ET, but
6th, 4th and 2nd string are tuned a quartertone higher)
Haba - Suite Op. 63 f�r Vierteltongitarre
Pascale Criton - La Ritournelle et le Galop (96ET) for quartertone fretted
guitar with six low E-strings tuned a 16th tone apart.

I'll do my best to post some impressions afterwards.

Wim Hoogewerf.

Wim Hoogewerf wrote,

>Haba - String Quartet Nr. 16 (30ET)

I believe this is the piece that was written in "fifth-tones" and inspired
by Fokker -- if I am correct, it is in fact in 31ET and not 30ET (a common
mistake). However, since the Haba did not make use of the great consonance
possibilities of 31ET, a performance in 30ET might not be losing very much!

> [Daniel Wolf, TD 309.14]
>
> I have a copy of the score. It's definitely in 31tet but
> Haba's non-thematic style and absence of a cohesive harmonic
> technique doesn't allow him to take much advantage, if any,
> of the abundant resources of 31tet. Is anyone else out
> there as consistantly disappointed by Haba's music as I am?

If I recall, Johnny Reinhard expressed similar disappointment
to me about Haba's compositions. Care to confirm, Johnny?

Myself, I haven't heard nearly enough of them to form a valid
opinion, altho I very much liked Wim's American premier of Haba's
_Suite, op. 63_ for quartertone guitar at the AFMM Microthon!
in May.

BTW [plug alert], the review I posted here of the Microthon!,
which David Beardsley as also put on his _Juxtaposition_ website,
was just published in print in _New Music Connoisseur_, if
anyone's interested. In this issue, the only other info on
microtonal music I've found is a reprinted review from _Fanfare_
of Annie Gosfield's CD _6 New Works_, on the Tzadik label.

-monz

Joseph L. Monzo Philadelphia monz@juno.com
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/homepage.html
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