Month: March 2019

Adagio Assai

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Year of comp: 2010
Instr: f soprano saxophone
Duration: 4
Publisher: SMIC
Premiered: 2012-08-13
Place: Perugia, Cortile d’Onore del Palazzo degli Arienti (Festival SituAzioni 2012)
Performers: David Brutti
ID-number: GB7647

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PROGRAM NOTES
The expressive content of Adagio Assai can be likened to a ‘lament’, manifesting great grief, but in an unobtrusive manner. As the title suggests, the tempo of the piece very slowly gives each note a high degree of significance.

The material for the piece is based on a series where quarter tones are mixed with whole and half tones. The series of tones is derived from the ‘multiphonics’ which provide the ‘harmonics’ for the piece.

First performance: given by Italian saxophonist David Brutti during the course of the Festival SituAzioni 2012 in Umbria, Italy.

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Adagio Assai

performed by David Brutti  http://www.davidbrutti.com

First performance in Florens

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Swedish string quartet premiered at the Villa Romana

Odd Sneeggens second string quartet will be premiered by the Italian string quartet, The Maurice Quartet at Villa Romana on June 12. Villa Romana is a free academy for all the arts and has had this feature in cultural life since 1905. Early guests at the Villa Romana were the artists Georg Kolbe, Max Beckmann, Käthe Kollwitz, Ernst Barlach and Max Pechstein.

The concert is part of a series of concerts featuring new work mixed with old classics in the contemporary music genre. The concert series is called What’s New.

The program also consists of eg By: Gyorgy Ligeti, Ryan Carter, Fernando Mencherini and Marco Momi.

http://www.villaromana.org/front_content.php?idcat=122&lang=2

 

Uruppförande i Florens

 
Svensk stråkkvartett uruppförs på Villa Romana

Odd Sneeggens 2:a stråkkvartett kommer att uruppföras av den italienska stråkkvartetten The Maurice Quartet på Villa Romana den 12 juni. Villa Romana är en fri akademi för alla konstarter och har haft denna funktion i kulturlivet sedan 1905. Tidiga gäster på Villa Romana var konstnärerna Georg Kolbe, Max Beckmann, Käthe Kollwitz, Ernst Barlach och Max Pechstein.

Konserten ingår i en serie konserter som presenterar nya verk blandat med äldre klassiker inom den nutida musikgenren. Konsertserien går under namnet What´s New.

Programmet för övrigt består bl.a. av: Gyorgy Ligeti, Ryan Carter, Fernando Mencherini och Marco Momi.

http://www.villaromana.org/front_content.php?idcat=122&lang=2

First piece for alto Saxophone

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Year of comp: 2008
Instr: f alto saxophone
Duration: 8
Publisher: SMIC
Premiered: 2012-07-22
Place: Todi, Sala delle Pietre
Performers: David Brutti
ID-number: GB7029

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PROGRAM NOTES
The First piece for alto Saxophone is dedicated to Lars-Göran Ulander, an influential musician in free-form jazz in Sweden.

Links to the genre of jazz occur, such as choice of tone series and intervals. A celebratory reference to the American saxophonist Steve Coleman is also hidden within the work. The piece mixes the strictly formal with a Dionysian form of expression.

First performance: given by Italian saxophonist David Brutti during the course of the Festival SituAzioni 2012 in Umbria, Italy.

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First Piece for alto Saxophone
performed by David Brutti  http://www.davidbrutti.com