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Re: 10-year performances summary
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Graham Urquhart
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Sep 23, 2009 07:04 PDT
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I have also wondered why For Christian Wolff is not played much in
comparison to For Philip Guston. I was delighted when the California
E.A.R.Unit recording was released last year and it is the late Feldman
piece that I have been enjoying most over the past year.
Chris - your list also prompted me to have a look at forthcoming
performances and delighted to see that John Tilbury is playing Piano and
Orchestra in April next year in Glasgow. We don't tend to get many
Feldman performances in Scotland!
Regards
Graham
David Toub wrote:
| | I have no idea why SQ1 is performed so much less often than SQ2,
except that perhaps SQ2 is looked upon as a testament to a string
quartet's endurance, and maybe that serves as an incentive. Both are
amazing works. In all honesty, For Christian Wolff is probably more of
an acquired taste than For Philip Guston. Both are great works, but
there is more diversity in FPG than in FCW, at least in my opinion,
and that diversity might make FPG more interesting for many listeners.
I'm still trying to figure out why Triadic Memories is performed more
often than 1977's Piano.
Best,
David
On Sep 23, 2009, at 8:33 AM, Chris Villars wrote:
| | Hi Suzie,
That does appear to be the case, but, as I said, the past performances
list is imcomplete and it may be that it is "more incomplete" for
earlier works than later ones. There could be two reasons for this: 1)
The list is based on the UE list, which only covers works they publish
(1969 onwards) and 2) Performers are probably less inclined to notify me
directly of concerts in which just one or two of the shorter early works
are included than of concerts which feature the larger scale later
works. That said, the differences in the numbers of listed performances
between earlier and later works are pretty large, which suggests that,
nothwithstanding the reservations above, Feldman's later works probably
are more often played in public than his early ones.
Differences amongst the later works themselves are not subject to the
above reservations I guess. Why then only one performance of SQ1 versus
26 of SQ2!? Only four of "For Christian Wolff" versus 28 of "For Philip
Guston"!? Does this reflect performer preference or concert organiser
preference? Maybe knowing these discrepancies might help encourage more
performances of the "neglected" works?
Regards -
Chris
Chris Villars
www.cnvill.net
suzie.la-@googlemail.com wrote:
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Chris:
Is another observation that Feldman's earlier works are performed less
often than his later works? The King of Denmark is the only early(ish)
work on your lists!
Suzie L
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