Yahoo Tuning Groups Ultimate Backup tuning The Music of Ben Johnston: A New Dissonance Blog

Dear all,

The blog at http://newdissonance.com/ is promoting the music of Ben Johnston, and I don't know whether it has been mentioned here before. For example, there are video and audio streams of performances available, including a performance of Quintet for Groups from the Donaueschingen Festival, and rehearsals of the Kepler Quartet practising Johnston's 10th quartet for an upcoming CD together with the composer.

http://newdissonance.com/category/videos/
http://newdissonance.com/category/audio/

Best wishes,
Torsten

--
Torsten Anders
Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research
University of Plymouth
Office: +44-1752-586219
Private: +44-1752-558917
http://strasheela.sourceforge.net
http://www.torsten-anders.de

🔗Carl Lumma <carl@...>

🔗jonszanto <jszanto@...>

Along these lines...

Kyle Gann was the keynote speaker at Franklin's recent Johnston gathering. From his blog, I'd recommend both the keynote speech:

http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2010/03/regarding_ben.html

... as well as his thoughts on Johnston's Seventh Quartet:

http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2010/03/the_mount_everest_of_string_qu.html

For the Johnstonista, this is good stuff gathering.

Cheers,
Jon

🔗Torsten Anders <torsten.anders@...>

On 30.03.2010, at 04:39, jonszanto wrote:
> ... as well as his thoughts on Johnston's Seventh Quartet:
> http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2010/03/the_mount_everest_of_string_qu.html

Thank you for this pointer. For others, there is also a MIDI-version (piano timbre)

http://www.kylegann.com/BJSQ7iii.mp3

Best wishes,
Torsten

🔗Ozan Yarman <ozanyarman@...>

Congratulations to Dr. Franklin Cox for an extraordinary microtonal
performance!

Oz.

✩ ✩ ✩
www.ozanyarman.com

On Mar 30, 2010, at 5:31 AM, Carl Lumma wrote:

> Wow, really moving performance by Franklin Cox here:
> http://newdissonance.com/2010/03/19/toccata/
>
> This is also definitely worth a listen!
> http://newdissonance.com/2009/11/08/string-quartet9video/
>
> -Carl
>
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Torsten Anders <torsten.anders@...>
> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> The blog at http://newdissonance.com/ is promoting the music of
>> Ben Johnston,
>
>
>

🔗Cox Franklin <franklincox@...>

Carl and Ozan,
Thank you both for the very kind comments.
I hope I might mention that my recording of Ben Johnston's Toccata and his Three Pieces for Two Cellos (transcription of his Three Pieces for Two Violins) are on a Cd of mine that has just come out, The New Cello, Vol. 1: American Composers, on Centaur records (CRC 2994). Also on the Cd are Elliott Carter's Figment 1 and 2, Stuart Smith's Willow and Said, Nearly,and my Clairvoyance (in 24-edo) and Recoil (in 72-edo).
By the way, the Kepler Quartet's project to record all of Ben Johnston's quartets could really use support. If any of you are interested in helping this group record the remainder of these extraordinary pieces, I hope you will consider making a contribution of some kind. Their web site is: http://keplerquartet.com/fundraising/.

best
Franklin

Dr. Franklin Cox

1107 Xenia Ave.

Yellow Springs, OH 45387

(937) 767-1165

franklincox@...

--- On Sun, 4/4/10, Ozan Yarman <ozanyarman@...> wrote:

From: Ozan Yarman <ozanyarman@...>
Subject: Re: [tuning] Re: The Music of Ben Johnston: A New Dissonance Blog
To: tuning@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, April 4, 2010, 4:10 PM

Congratulations to Dr. Franklin Cox for an extraordinary microtonal

performance!

Oz.

✩ ✩ ✩

www.ozanyarman. com

On Mar 30, 2010, at 5:31 AM, Carl Lumma wrote:

> Wow, really moving performance by Franklin Cox here:

> http://newdissonanc e.com/2010/ 03/19/toccata/

> This is also definitely worth a listen!

> http://newdissonanc e.com/2009/ 11/08/string- quartet9video/

> -Carl

> --- In tuning@yahoogroups. com, Torsten Anders <torsten.anders@ ...>

> wrote:

>> Dear all,

>> The blog at http://newdissonanc e.com/ is promoting the music of

>> Ben Johnston,