Day 13
Hello! Two Videos - no pdf.
About I.ntonation
Practicing I.ntonation
in Stop Bows
Downloads:
Nothing today :)
Today’s Recommended Listening:
Eric Moore (b. 1986)
Postlude - Homage to K. Saariaho
[YouTube] - 6 minutes
I wrote this piece as the 41st of 40 Variations on the Schindler’s List Theme [my pedagogical answer to the 40 Popper Etudes]. Each of those pieces is an homage to a different composer and here, the final movement is a standalone homage to Kaija Saariaho. Saariaho wrote what I consider to be the first solo cello masterpiece of the 21st century - Sept Papillons (”Seven Butterflies”) - more on that next week. When I learned that she had passed away a few years ago, I organized a 6-concert retrospective festival of her complete chamber music with New Music Decanted.
I composed this piece in scordatura, with a Drop Bb (So, A D G Bb). Here, I allude very very lightly to John Williams’ theme, but in a kind of Saariaho style, and very much influenced by Valentin Silvestrov’s Postlude #3 (the Cello/Piano version, not Hauser’s orchestra version). There is sheet music in case you’re interested.
What to explore next:
Eric Moore | Mantras after Bach #070101 - Emote [YouTube, @CelloLoft]
Eric Moore & Martin Torch-Ishii | Vortex for Two Cellos [YouTube, @CelloLoft]
Valentin Silvestrov | Postlude #3 [Cello/Piano, Anja Lechner recording]
See you tomorrow!
—Eric