Not sure but I think this might be the recording with Bolcom playing the piano, there are no notes. It is one of two masterly pieces he wrote in 1976 as commentary on the Buycentennial, as I came to think of it. It contains some of the best use of sarcasm in music that I'm aware of. The other is his great Piano Quartet, which I can't find online. Got the feeling that we were thinking along similar lines on that one. It's a lot like I'm feeling about the country right now.
"It seems to me that to organize on the basis of feeding people or righting social injustice and all that is very valuable. But to rally people around the idea of modernism, modernity, or something is simply silly. I mean, I don't know what kind of a cause that is, to be up to date. I think it ultimately leads to fashion and snobbery and I'm against it." Jack Levine: January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010 LEVEL BILLIONAIRES OUT OF EXISTENCE
Thursday, July 3, 2014
William Bolcom Piano Concerto
Not sure but I think this might be the recording with Bolcom playing the piano, there are no notes. It is one of two masterly pieces he wrote in 1976 as commentary on the Buycentennial, as I came to think of it. It contains some of the best use of sarcasm in music that I'm aware of. The other is his great Piano Quartet, which I can't find online. Got the feeling that we were thinking along similar lines on that one. It's a lot like I'm feeling about the country right now.
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