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Kyle Gann.(Private Dances)(Sound recording review)
Kyle Gann. Private Dances. Sarah Cahill; Da Capo Chamber Players; Bernard Gann. New Albion NA 137, 2007.
It is difficult to put one's finger on exactly what it is that makes Kyle Gann's music so affecting. This set of five works, three for piano solo (played by Sarah Cahill), one for a quintet of winds, cello and piano, and one for a quintet of winds, cello and piano, and one for a quintet of winds, sampling keyboards and fretless electric bass, is consistently quiet in mood, but is never exactly either contemplative or somber. The only word that comes immediately to mind is impassive, but that is not right either. Watchful might be better, although the term may be more apt than really helpfully descriptive. In any case, despite the somewhat varied textures and tempi of these pieces, they all share a similar feeling, one that is emotionally calm and almost dry. The title piece is a six-part suite for solo piano, capably played by Sarah Cahill, each movement titled with a "mood" word starting with the letter S--"Sexy," "Sultry," "Swingin," etc. However, only a few of these pieces convey moods that actually correspond well to their titles. "Sad" and "Sultry" seem almost tonally interchangeable, though both blues chord progression ...
- Essential Cowell: Selected Writings on Music by Henry Cowell, 1921-1964. (Book...
- Magazine article from: Notes DeLapp, Jennifer March 1, 2003 700+ words
...compact volume, accompanied by a discography updated to the year 2001. Kyle Gann supplies a preface describing Cowell's enduring, relatively unheralded...in modem American musi c that Ives enjoys today. In his preface, Kyle Gann makes a
- Formalized accelerando: an extension of rhythmic techniques in Nancarrow's...
- Magazine article from: Perspectives of New Music Callender, Clifton January 1, 2001 700+ words
...to the kind of compositional richness he found elsewhere. Kyle Gann, The Music of Conlon Nancarrow OF HIS FIFTY-ONE STUDIES...22, and 27. (2) In his book on Nancarrow's music, Kyle Gann offers the above statement as an explanation as to why Nancarrow...
- Annea Lockwood.(Annea Lockwood. Ear-Walking Woman)(Video recording review)
- Magazine article from: Notes Stimeling, Travis D. September 1, 2007 700+ words
...collaborated with, commissioned works from, and recorded the music of several American composers, including Alvin Lucier, Kyle Gann, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, William Duckworth, and Jerry Hunt. Furthermore, Svard has established Innovera Studios, the company...
- Letters
- Magazine article from: The Village Voice Anonymous July 30, 1996 700+ words
...aspects of her unconscious, perhaps that was her way ofdoing it. DANIEL R COLERIDGE Manhattan MUSIC BOXING As a student in Kyle Gann's graduate seminar at Columbia this spring, I feel compelled to respond to his article "The Great Divide" [July 9...
- Composer at last
- Magazine article from: The Village Voice Gann, Kyle; Jowitt, Deborah October 15, 1996 700+ words
...m thrilled when she says of The Politics of Quiet: "This is really a music-driven piece" [Sidebar] Meredith Monk, Kyle Gann, and [Sidebar] I are sitting in the live-work loft she's had for over 20 years. We're talking mostly about her new...
- HYUNDAI GOES WHOLE HOG; Flooding tuner shops with its cars for SEMA is good...
- Magazine article from: AutoWeek Vaughn, Mark November 8, 2004 700+ words
...Hyundai. "It's cool working with them, because they let us go a lot wilder than the other manufacturers do,'' said Kyle Gann of K-Daddyz Kustoms in Bakersfield. K-Daddyz chopped the top off a Tiburon, added a metal tonneau, a wide body kit and...
- UC'S CUTTING-EDGE GROUP TO PERFORM IN NEW VENUE.(TIMEOUT)
- Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) Hutton, Mary Ellyn January 6, 2000 700+ words
...will perform music from the CCM computer-music studios by Mara Helmuth and Mike Barnhard; ''Snake Dance No. 2,'' by Kyle Gann, music critic of New York's Village Voice; and works by 20th-century master John Cage. The dramatic new theater, in...
- Awards & prizes.(Brief Article)
- American Theatre April 1, 2000 700+ words
...aficionado Albert Innaurato won for his two-part article "Temple of Music or Temple of Doom?" in Opera News, and music writer Kyle Gann was recognized for "The String Quartet Ain't Over 'til the Drummer Solos," published in Chamber Music magazine. According...