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...until the flowering of his son's talent, Danbury's leading musical citizen. George rigged a contrivance (24 violin strings spread across a clothespress) that produced quarter tones. Determined to stretch his son's musical ear, he had him sing Swanee River in the key of E-flat while Dad accompanied in the key of C. Small wonder that Charles the composer would go on to use polytonality and polyrhythms long before those techniques emerged in the works of Stravinsky and other 20th century musical giants. As Composer Aaron Copland puts it in his preface...
...Awwk! Awwk!" sings Anthony Burgess in a loud, hoarse baritone. "Those E-flat major chords get the reader awake." Then in deep, funereal tones, quoting from his own book, he continues: "There he lies/ Ensanguinated tyrant/ O bloody, bloody tyrant/ See/ How the sin within/ Doth incarnadine/ His skin/ From the shin to the chin." "Perhaps," he adds, "Knopf should have given away a free record with every copy...
Gris's ambition was to make what he termed une architecture plate et colorée-flat, colored architecture. "An object," he declared in a lecture in 1924, "becomes a spectacle as soon as It has a spectator. So one can think of that object in a number of ways. So a house wife might think of a table as something more or less utilitarian. A carpenter would notice how It is made and from what quality of wood. A poet-a bad one-will imagine everyone sitting round the hearth, and so forth. But for a painter...
Richard Kogan, piano; Lynn Chang, violin; Yo-Yo Ma, cello. Beethoven: Kreutzer Sonata; Schubert: Trio in E-Flat. Free. Saturday, April 27, 8:30 p.m.DUNSTER LIBRARY...
...Apple Hill Chamber Players are doing the first of five chamber recitals for Arts Across the River. Their program is two of the great chamber pieces, the Brahms Horn Trio and the Mozart E-flat Piano Quartet as well as the less well known Piston Duo for Viola and Cello...