Posts tagged documentary
Carlos Kleiber: Traces to Nowhere
ServusTV 2010
The Great Piano Scam: on the…erm…legendary late recordings of Joyce Hatto.
Bruno Monsaingeon
Sviatoslav Richter: the Enigma (documentary)
Part One
Let’s Get Lost
Wonderful, up-close and personal documentary on jazz legend Chet Baker. Written and directed by Bruce Weber, 1988.
A documentary film on flutist Emmanuel Pahud.
BBC Stephen Fry on Wagner (by goatcee)
Watch this now
that is an order
Ja wohl! I’ve only seen parts and pieces of this before—it’s a great documentary on Wagner.
And of course Stephen Fry. <3
Music engraving on metal plates
Ever thought about how sheet music gets printed, or at least was printed before computers?
“I don’t make mistakes.” German precision FTW.
Bruno Monsaingeon - Mlle Nadia Boulanger,
documentary film
“It seems to me that the one quality lacking in many people is attention, which is, essentially, a form of character. With some people there is such concentration that everything becomes important—while with others, everything passes and is forgotten. They repeat their actions from day to day. No evolution is possible because whatever is produced immediately dissolves. Then, there are people who take 20, 40, 50 years to find what they are looking for…this is the fundamental distinction between people. It makes some extraordinarily active, and others what I call ‘sleepers.’ Let the sleepers lie—there is no point in waking them. They are nice; they are happy with themselves.”
- Nadia Boulanger
A little more Michelangeli for you today, from a 1959 documentary. In it, he listens to a student play some Debussy, then sits down to play Mompou’s Cançon No. 6 and another piece.
If you love Shosty, consider checking out Oliver Becker’s documentary on the composer; it’s an hour well-spent. The video presented here is the first of six segments on Youtube.
Discussion topic: What would Shostakovich say about SOPA, I wonder?
“Storyville: The Jazz Baroness,” documentary film
Thelonious Monk & Pannonica Rothschild
Josef Matthias Hauer, the experimental and intellectual composer who began working with a kind of dodecaphonic serialism based on hexachords years before Schoenberg; Austrian documentary footage from the 1950s.
50 plays
Copland - Suite from The City (1939)
VII. The New City
Post Classical Ensemble
Angel Gil-Ordoñez, cond.
The City is a film documentary created for the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Produced by Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke, it aimed to show how the development of both large metropolises and noisy, dirty mill towns had stifled the “American way of life,” and also to sell a remedy—the “planned communities” which began popping up on the Eastern Seabord during the FDR years, at first under the direct control of the New Deal administration.
The film was shot without dialogue (in part because of the high cost of outdoor on-site sound production), but a narration track and a delightful and little-appreciated score by Aaron Copland were provided. In this, the final number of the film music suite, Copland sets the mood for the exhibition of just the kind of model town the filmmakers had in mind—Greenbelt, Maryland, pictured above in an aerial shot from 1939.
In Search of Mahler, Gavin Plumley.
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