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[jgthirlwell]

playlist 05.30.24

Shellac To All Trains (Touch and Go) Kernis Symphony On Waves (Argo) Elysian Fields What The Thunder Said (Ojet) Giovanni Fusco La Guerre Est Finie OST (Bell) Georg Friedrich Haas In Vain (Kairos) Sebastian Tropic OST (Ed Banger) Vocoder V.O.C.O.D.E.R (Dur et Doux) Caleb Landry Jones Hey Gary, Hey Dawn (Sacred Bones) Joseph Franklin A Thousand Tiny Mutinies (Nice Music Label) Herdis Stensdottir Knock At The Cabin OST (Back Lot Music) Lu$tSickPuppy Carousel From Hell (Bandcamp) Big | Brave A Chaos of Flowers (Thrill Jockey) BBBBBBB singles and EPs (Bandcamp) Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross The Killer OST (The Null Corp) Chico Magnetic Band (Lizard / Disques Vogue)

[sunset-supergirl]

Happy birthday Joshua Bell

[cmapfilm]

#nashvillesymphony #kernis #barber #beethoven (at Schermerhorn Symphony Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuPtWNoDmh4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=e4297gvu5byp

[sandrakern]

#sarcletti#malaga#walnuss#kernis#favorites🍦 (hier: Sarcletti)

[musickingforlife]

Another one of the pieces I performed on my recital in November! This is the Air for Cello and Piano by Aaron Jay Kernis.

I had never heard this piece before my professor recommended it to me. I told him that I was interested in a half Baroque, half contemporary program, and asked him to recommend some contemporary pieces for cello and piano. He proceeded to pull about 10 pieces of music from his expansive filing cabinet full of repertoire, and told me to start with those. 

I took all of them home with me to listen to them. And when I heard this one, I immediately knew it was going to be on the program. It's an incredible and beautiful piece of music; Kernis himself described it as one of the most lyrical pieces he's ever written. 

I'm very grateful that Professor Elliott recommended this piece to me; this was a piece that allowed me to discover just how much I had grown as both a cellist and a musician. Both technically and musically, it was probably the most challenging piece on the program. I had many people tell me that this was their favorite piece on my program that night, and that I was able to present it effectively was a big personal victory. Besides that, I'm glad I was able to introduce them to such a great piece of music. I hope you all enjoy it as well!

[musickingforlife]

Musicology at Random

Post 7

I'm giving a recital on Thursday! That's equal parts exciting and terrifying, as all public performances tend to be. But I've been preparing for this recital since this past summer, so I'm actually feeling really good about it. I had my dress rehearsal a couple nights ago, and I think it's going to go well.

The program is half-Baroque, half-contemporary; you might remember my posts from a while back about Domenico Gabrielli's Ricercare, three of which I am playing along with Bach's Fifth Suite for Solo Cello.

On the contemporary half of the program, I'm playing four pieces, one of which was written by one of my friends in the school of composition. The other three are relatively short pieces, all by composers who lived within the last 100 years.

Probably the most difficult piece on the program is the Air for Cello and Piano by Aaron Jay Kernis. But it's also one of the most beautiful pieces for cello and piano that I've ever heard. It was originally written for violin and string orchestra, but it's since been transcribed for many different combinations of instruments. The version I'm sharing today is a transcription for cello and string orchestra, and it's performed by one of my favorite cellists, Truls Mork. I hope you enjoy!

[musickingforlife]

Day 212

I'm writing now from the positively idyllic vacation spot at which my family spends two weeks of every summer. We rent a cottage right on the shore of Lake Michigan, in Leelanau County, which is for my money the most beautiful place on Earth. And these have been, as usual, the most relaxing two weeks of my summer--of my year.

I've spent a lot of time up here with my iPod on shuffle as I read, and I've come across plenty of old favorites, along with some wonderful pieces of music that I've never heard before. This is one of the latter; a piece called Musica Celestis by contemporary composer Aaron Jay Kernis. A brief scan of the internet reveals that it is a kind of modern-day Barber's Adagio. Originally a movement of a string quartet, it was arranged by the composer for string orchestra. I hope you enjoy!

[littlethingwithfeathers]

Composer: Aaron Jay Kernis Title: Musica Celestis Performance by: City of Birmingham Orchestra, Hugh Wolffe

Sometimes, when I go to the symphony or some other concert like that, I find that the piece I went to hear doesn't end up being what moved me the most. Such was the case today when I went to hear our local symphony orchestra's dress rehearsal for their sold out concert featuring Beethoven's 9th. That was what I went to hear. Many of my closest friends were in the choir and I wanted to support them and hear them sing. For some of them, it would be among the last times I'll get to hear them for a long while. And the 9th was good.

But this simple piece... Musica Celestis by Aaron Jay Kernis was what I took home with me to turn over in my head. It matched my mood and my feelings towards those I was there to see and support. I guess it's the smallest example of the lesson that you should always be open to new things and allow yourself to be surprised.