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Easley Blackwood Kling Olivier Messiaen Paul Hindemith Nadia Boulanger Verdi Ravel Charles Ives Pierre Boulez Louisville Orchestra Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Chicago Pro Musica Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1933 1954 1956 1957 1958 1980 1986 1997
Easley Blackwood, (born April 21, 1933), is a professor of music, a concert pianist, a composer of music, some using unusual tunings, and the author of books on music theory, including his research into the properties of microtonal tunings and traditional harmony. Blackwood was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He studied piano there and was doing solo appearances at the age of 14 with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. After studies at many places (including Yale University, where he earned his Master of Arts degree) in the United States, he went to Paris to study from 1954 to 1956. His teachers include Olivier Messiaen, Paul Hindemith, and Nadia Boulanger. For forty years, from 1958 to 1997, Blackwood taught at the University of Chicago, most of the time with the title of Professor. He then became Professor Emeritus at the University. He is still teaching classes. Blackwood's initial compositions were not particularly unconventional although in them he employed polyrhythm and wide melodic contours. This early music by Blackwood has been characterized as in an atonal yet a formally conservative style. In 1980-81 Blackwood shifted rather abruptly to a new style, releasing Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media. For these pieces, he used microtonality to create unusual equal tempered musical scales. Blackwood has explored all equal temperaments from 13 through 24, including 15-ET and 19-ET.[1] Although Blackwood recorded most of these pieces with a synthesizer, his "Suite in 15-Note Equal Tuning, Op. 33" was performed live on a specially constructed guitar.[2] His compositional style moved toward a late-19th-century tonality; he has likened its harmonic syntax to Verdi, Ravel, and Franck. As a performer at the piano, Blackwood has played diverse compositions and has promoted the music of Charles Ives, Pierre Boulez, and the Second Viennese School. In addition to his solo piano performances, Blackwood is pianist in the chamber group Chicago Pro Musica, largely comprising members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Blackwood has written a very substantial treatise on music harmony, A Practical Musician's Guide to Tonal Harmony which, "...springs from studies at the French National Conservatory from 1954-1957 with Nadia Boulanger."[3] Blackwood is also known for his book, The Structure of Recognizable Diatonic Tunings, (ISBN 0691091293) published 1986. A number of recordings of his music have been released by Cedille Records (the label of the Chicago Classical Recording Foundation) beginning in the 1990s such as Introducing Easley Blackwood.[4] His father, Easley Blackwood, Sr. is a noted contract bridge player and author.
Rimsky Korsakov Easley Blackwood Chicago Pro Musica 1887
I. Alborada II. Variazioni III. Alborada IV. Scena e canto gitano V. Fandango asturiano. Performed by the Chicago Pro Musica, directed from the piano by Easley Blackwood Jr.
Chicago Pro Musica Victoria Bond 2019
Provided to YouTube by NAXOS of America Frescoes and Ash (Version for Clarinet, String Quartet, Double Bass, Piano & Percussion) : VII. Ash (Awareness of Mortality) · Chicago Pro Musica Victoria Bond: Chamber Works ℗ 2019 Naxos Released on: 2019-04-12 Ensemble: Chicago Pro Musica Composer: Victoria Bond Auto-generated by YouTube.
Chicago Pro Musica William Walton 2012
Provided to YouTube by NAXOS of America Façade (Arr. for Chamber Ensemble) : Fanfare - Scotch Rhapsody · Chicago Pro Musica Medinah Sessions ℗ 2012 Reference Recordings Released on: 2012-03-01 Ensemble: Chicago Pro Musica Composer: Anonymous Composer: William Walton Auto-generated by YouTube.
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