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2022-07-29 06:00:55
Franco Donatoni’s “Hot”: Imaginary Jazz
The young virtuoso saxophonist, Ryan Muncy, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly last week. Critics noted his talent and capacity to “show off the instrument’s malleability and freakish extended range as well as its delicacy and refinement.” (The Chicago Reader) Before joining the International Contemporary Ensemble, he served as saxophonist and artistic director of the Chicago-based Ensemble Dal Niente. Muncy’s solo debut album, Hot, was released in 2013. The title track features a thrilling 1989 chamber ...
2021-11-29 10:00:00
Ensemble Dal Niente, a staunch Chicago-based purveyor of new music, is not like other groups. Since its inception in 2004,.. The post appeared first on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN.
2020-06-22 17:39:17
Once in a great while, someone writes album liner notes so priceless that they scream to be quoted. Here’s Michael Lewanski offering some background for Ben Melsky‘s album New Works for Harp with his group Ensemble Dal Niente: “There might be many things that strike you as odd about the idea of a new music […]
2017-01-01 00:46:32
[…] which are hard to name precisely though they can be articulated as you listen—personally I think of them in terms such as Erasure and Compromise and Stillness and Memory—and these ideas are stained into the musical events of in vain. There is no traditional narrative but still the musical fragments and evolutions will swell and skitter across the instruments like living things, with distinctly assigned personalities, with contrary motives— Georg Friedrich Haas: In Vain (Ensemble Dal Niente, 02/28/13) from Ensemble Dal Niente on Vimeo . Simon Rattle paraphrases the composer as saying the following about why he wrote in vain: “The piece was composed [by Haas] as a response to the rise of the far right in Austria, and has partly to do with Haas’s despair at the situation.” Yeah. So there’s that. The ensemble of in vain strains towards escaping the erasure of the locked twelve-note […]
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