Blumine (“Flower”) was the original Andante second movement of Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony. It was eliminated following the the third performance, conducted by Mahler in Weimar in 1894. With this revision, a sprawling and programmatic five-movement tone poem was refined into a symphony. Years later, Mahler dismissed Blumine as “a blunder of youth.” The manuscript resurfaced in 1959 and it was included in a June 18th,…
BY BECKY LLEWELLYN We would like to welcome Becky in her first blog as a CutCommon contributor! Ah, 2021 – living through a global pandemic. Some of us have been doing it easier than others, but everyone in the performing arts world has had huge challenges to navigate. They call us ‘creatives’ for a reason. We have skills and…
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER (NSW) Music in the SkyPianist Luke Howard with The Nano SymphonyRoundhouse, 30 May Music In the Sky’s premiere performance at the Roundhouse was an incredibly tranquil and immersive experience. The event was split into three parts that spanned the journey of a night: Sunset, Dream, and Sunrise. The audience was served a smorgasbord of…
CONTENT COURTESY MELBOURNE DIGITAL CONCERT HALL Melbourne Digital Concert Hall is teaming up with Camerata, Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra, for a spontaneous live streamed broadcast from the Queensland Performing Arts Centre at 7pm AEST June 5. Camerata Re-Mastered will feature Beethoven’s Grand Fugue, Turina’s sensual Bullfighter’s Prayer, Steve Reich’s Duet, and the world premiere of Beyond the Front Door by…
CONTENT COURTESY AUSTRALIAN YOUTH ORCHESTRA At the turn of the 20th Century, the ancient legend of the firebird was brought to life as Stravinsky published one of his most celebrated works to date. Times were changing, and audiences became eager for a new kind of art and music that told of distant cultures — the strange, the exotic. The…
BY CUTCOMMON In collaboration with the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the Women’s Club has been hosting a series of recitals celebrating the works of women who compose and perform. Quart-Ed will perform the next event in this Women in Music series. The group features four Music Education graduates: Sarah Qiu (violin), Caitlin Sandiford (violin), Connor Malanos (viola) and Karen Cortez…
James Primosch, a dear friend and colleague of mine and one of the finest composers of his generation, passed away on April 26, 2021 at age 64, from complications of pancreatic cancer. Jim was born in 1956 in Cleveland, OH. He studied at Cleveland State University, the University of Pennsylvania (where he joined the composition faculty in 1988), and…
(All photos by Brian Smale) Composer and holistic sound artist Matthew Bennett has created some of the most intuitively experienced sonorities that you might never have thought to trace to their origins. As the former director of the Sound + Sensory Design Program at Microsoft, where he was still employed at the time of this interview, he endeavored to…
Brian Ferneyhough Complete Piano Music Ian Pace, piano (Ben Smith, piano on Sonata for Two Pianos) Metier CD Marc Yeats The Anatomy of Melancholy Ian Pace, piano Prima Facie CD Ian Pace is one of the finest interpreters of complex contemporary music currently active. Two recent recordings of music by British composers of exquisitely intricate scores –…
Congratulations to Tania León for being awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her work Stride. The piece was commissioned and premiered by the New York Philharmonic as part of its Project 19 initiative, which marked the centenary of the 19th amendment with nineteen commissions from female composers. The Oregon Symphony shared in the commissioning of Stride. Below is a…
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