Music and Its Double

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Music and Its Double
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Studio album by John Zorn
Released October 30, 2012
Recorded September & December 9, 2011 and May 2012
Genre Avant-garde, Contemporary classical music
Length42:33
Label Tzadik TZ 8092
Producer John Zorn
John Zorn chronology
A Vision in Blakelight
(2012)		Music and Its Double
(2012)		 The Concealed
(2012)

Music and Its Double is an album composed by John Zorn and featuring three contemporary compositions which were recorded in New York City in 2011 and Finland in 2012 and released on the Tzadik label in October 2012. [1] The first track dedicated to composer György Ligeti, "À Rebours", was recorded at the Miller Theatre by cellist Fred Sherry and ensemble conducted by Brad Lubman. [2] The four movements of "Ceremonial Magic" are 2011 studio recordings by David Fulmer and Kenny Wollesen and the final composition, "La Machine De L'Être" inspired by Antonin Artaud, was recorded by the Lahti Symphony Orchestra in 2012. [3]

John Zorn American composer, saxophonist and bandleader

John Zorn is an American composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist, and multi-instrumentalist with hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, and producer across a variety of genres including jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and improvised music. He incorporates diverse styles in his compositions, which he identifies as avant-garde or experimental. Zorn was described by Down Beat as "one of our most important composers".

Tzadik Records American record label

Tzadik Records is a record label in New York City that specializes in avant-garde and experimental music. The label was established by composer and saxophonist John Zorn in 1995. He is the executive producer of all Tzadik releases. Tzadik is a not-for-profit, cooperative record label.

György Ligeti Hungarian composer

György Sándor Ligeti was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described as "one of the most important avant-garde composers in the latter half of the twentieth century" and "one of the most innovative and influential among progressive figures of his time".

Contents

Track listing

All compositions by John Zorn

  1. "À Rebours" - 11:12
  2. "Ceremonial Magic I" - 5:37
  3. "Ceremonial Magic II" - 4:07
  4. "Ceremonial Magic III" - 5:52
  5. "Ceremonial Magic IV" - 4:03
  6. "La Machine De L'Être: Tetème" - 4:10
  7. "La Machine De L'Être: Le Révélé" - 3:26
  8. "La Machine De L'Être: Entremêlés" - 4:04

Personnel

Track 1:

Fred Sherry is an American cellist who is particularly admired for his work as a chamber musician and concert soloist. He studied with Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School before winning the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1968. In 1971 he co-founded the Speculum Musicae and in 1973 he co-founded the Tashi Quartet. Since the mid-1980s he has been a regular performer with Bargemusic and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the latter of which he served as Artistic Director for between 1989-1993. He has appeared as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. He currently serves on the faculty at the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, and Mannes College The New School for Music.

Cello musical instrument

The cello ( CHEL-oh; plural cellos or celli) or violoncello ( VY-ə-lən-CHEL-oh; Italian pronunciation: [vjolonˈtʃɛllo]) is a string instrument. It is played by bowing or plucking its four strings, which are usually tuned in perfect fifths an octave lower than the viola: from low to high, C2, G2, D3 and A3. It is the bass member of the violin family, which also includes the violin, viola and the double bass, which doubles the bass line an octave lower than the cello in much of the orchestral repertoire. After the double bass, it is the second-largest and second lowest (in pitch) bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. The cello is used as a solo instrument, as well as in chamber music ensembles (e.g., string quartet), string orchestras, as a member of the string section of symphony orchestras, most modern Chinese orchestras, and some types of rock bands.

Jennifer Choi is a Korean-American violinist based in New York City. Choi graduated from the Juilliard School and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and has performed in a variety of settings including solo violin, chamber music, and creative improvisation and performed with the Oregon Symphony, the Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Portland Youth Philharmonic, and the String Orchestra of New York City (SONYC) among others.

Tracks 2-5:

Tracks 6-8:

A soprano[soˈpraːno] is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) =880 Hz in choral music, or to "soprano C" (C6, two octaves above middle C) =1046 Hz or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which often encompasses the melody. The soprano voice type is generally divided into the coloratura, soubrette, lyric, spinto, and dramatic soprano.

Lahti Symphony Orchestra orchestra

The Lahti Symphony Orchestra is a Finnish orchestra, based in the city of Lahti. The orchestra is resident at the Sibelius Hall. The orchestra was founded in 1910, and placed under the control of the Lahti municipality in 1949.

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References

  1. ↑ Tzadik Catalog, accessed October 18, 2013
  2. ↑ Smith, S. Arch-Rebel Turned New-Music Luminary, NY Times, December 11, 2011
  3. ↑ Discogs album entry, accessed October 18, 2013
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