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| | | new world (usa) #nw 80595 cd barney childs “a music; that it might be ...” compact disc - take 5 (3:50) 1962
- a music; that it might be.... (11:38) 1973
- grande fantasie de concert (“masters of the game”) (4:13) 1990
- london rice wine (4:35) 1973
- pastoral (5:59) 1983
- instant winners (9:55) 1986
- changes for three oboes (6:02) 1959
- quartet for bassoons (7:27) 1958
- the golden bubble (9:35) 1967
- variation on night river music (0:59) 1969
| | new world press release... |
| “sometimes i wonder about what we are doing: the writing of music hardly anyone wants to hear is pretty well the bottom of the list in terms of today’s consumer-approved activities although i concede there is something to be said for the preparation of a dictionary of pre-medieval finno-ugric. anyway, there’s the music; may those who wish use it as they may please.” — barney childs
barney childs (1926–2000) is particularly noted for his innovative and influential scores that invite their performers’ collaboration in the very construction of the works and in which indeterminacy and improvisation sit side by side with traditional forms of structure and notation; his early works show influences of hindemith and carter. eclectic in nature, childs’ compositions freely explored diverse avenues of musical thought and drew inspiration from many sources, including traditional western concert music (especially that of such composers as hindemith, ives, ruggles, and copland), the open form works of john cage, and jazz of all styles.
the present recording is the first that is dedicated exclusively to his works and comprises ten compositions for woodwinds, including the now defunct e flat contrabass sarrusophone. the broad scope of childs’s eclectic compositional style is reflected in the techniques and structural elements used in these pieces—indeterminacy, improvisation, electronics, extended techniques, graphic notation scores, microtones, silence, and the spoken word, among others.
phillip rehfeldt, woodwinds
ron george, percussion
marco schindelmann, reader |
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