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Understanding the rules
“We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.” — David Lynch
A democratic orchestraIn 1920s Soviet Russia, musicians experimented mirroring the political state: “Just as the government didn’t need a tsar, so the orchestra didn’t need a director,” says Pyotr Aidu of the School of Dramatic Art, which will revive the long-dead form at a premiere concert Thursday. Miriam Elder, “1920s Orchestra Without a Conductor Revived”, The Moscow […]
Ravel’s influence on Vaughan WilliamsIn 1908, after a period of intense period of immersion in English music due to his role as editor of Hymns Ancient and Modern, Vaughan Williams “came to the conclusion that I was lumpy and stodgy, had come to a dead-end, and that a little French polish would be of use to me.” (1) He […]
Doing what I can’t do“I am always doing what I can’t do yet in order to learn how to do it”. – Van Gogh, painter, in a letter to Anthon van Rappard, 1885
The Lord will Bless his People with Peace (Setting II) – Psalm 28 (29)Title: The Lord will bless his people with peace (Setting II) Text: Psalm 28 (29): 1-4. 9-10 Composer: Greg Smith Instrumentation: SATB and piano Product medium: PDF score and part Sample:
How we decorate space and time“Art is how we decorate space; music is how we decorate time.” Jean-Michel Basquiat, street artist
Blessed Are They Who Dwell In Your House – Psalm 83 (84)Title: Blessed are they who dwell in your house Text: Psalm 83 (84): 2-3, 5-6, 9-10. R. v.5 Composer: Greg Smith Instrumentation: SATB and piano (unison verses) Product medium: PDF score and partSAMPLE:
Aim above the mark“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), American poet.
Practising at every opportunityThe conductor Stokowski was co-conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. He was rehearsing his own orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. The orchestra, however, was used to playing Ravel’s exuberant orchestration. Charles O’Connell recalled: “In the midst of the rehearsal, one of the second violinists busied himself practising the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, which […]
Ravel’s compositional processRobert de Fragny recalled a conversation with Ravel about his compositional process: The G major Concerto took two years of work, you know. The opening theme came to me on a train between Oxford and London. But the initial idea is nothing. The work of chiseling then begun. We’ve gone past the days when the […]