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| | new world (usa) #nwcr 0697 cd
composers recordings inc. (usa) #nwcr 0697 cdseth josel “long distance” compact disc recordable - sidney corbett - arien iv: solo music for guitar (21:06) 1986
- james tenney - water on the mountain - fire in heaven (24:27) 1985
- martin bresnick - bag o’ tells (12:12) 1984
- eric lyon - greaseball (6:52) 1992
- aaron jay kernis - ciacona (7:24) 1981
| | new world press release... |
| every composer, every listener to music—intent or casual—has to come to terms with the guitar. as the sonic flesh of western popular music for much of the last half century, it is simply inescapable: there are few places left so remote that the sound of the guitar is unknown or shut out.
given its ubiquity, though, the guitar is an instrument of surprisingly few, if powerful, associations. amplified at great volume, it is rock’s instrument of potency and persuasion, of sex and rebellion; it cries tears and comforts the lonely in country and western music; it is a gentle accompanist and social unifier in folk music; it is a symbol of spain. in classical music, the guitar’s ancestor, the lute, was widely used in the renaissance and baroque periods, but since then, outside of spain, it has been a minor player. in our century, the modernist school of composers has acknowledged it but not its associations, finding in it, instead, a vast potential for color and variety of sounds—an approach that has had little popularity outside of a specialized audience.
yet the tension created by the guitar’s unavoidable historical and ethnic associations, its present-day ubiquity, and its ability to continually renew itself happen to make it an ideal vehicle for musical postmodernism—the instrument, that is, for our times. consequently, the music performed by seth josel herein, which is centered around the culturally unstable 1980s and 1990s, turns out to be a kind of wide-lens snapshot of our musical era that would be hard to match in a collection of new works for any other single instrument.
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originally from new york and now residing in berlin, seth josel has become one of the leading guitarists of his generation, active in a broad diversity of styles and genres. as a soloist and an ensemble member, he has premiered more than two dozen works including louis andriessen and robert wilson’s opera de materie, john cage’s five4 , sidney corbett’s die stimmen der wände, and james tenney’s form 4. he has performed throughout europe and north america, including with the bbc symphony orchestra, the southwest german radio orchestra, and the schoenberg ensemble of amsterdam, and at numerous festivals including the south bank festival, strasbourg musica, the holland festival, and the munich biennale. since 1991, he has been a permanent member of the musikfabrik nordrhein-westfalen, a state-subsidized ensemble devoted to the performance of contemporary music. he has been associated with many of the leading young composers of europe including richard barrett, johannes kalitzke, and manfred stahnke.
seth josel’s teachers have included manuel barrueco, eliot fisk, robert guthrie, and harpsichordist richard rephann and he has participated in master classes of oscar ghiglia and andres segovia. he earned a bachelor of music degree at the manhattan school of music and he received master's degrees and a doctor of musical arts degree from yale university. among his honors and awards are a fulbright-hays grant and an artist’s stipend from the german state of baden-württemberg for residency at schloss solitude, stuttgart. |
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