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Banned Rehearsal

Friday, June 27, 2014 8pm

Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle

 

On June 24, 1984, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, and Neal Meyer gathered together to make a tape, improvising on instruments we didn't know how to play. Thinking we might do this 3 or 4 times and because it seemed right to think of our project as a band - and because none of us could resist the pun - we called ourselves and the project Banned Rehearsal. Our personnel has changed somewhat over time, surviving several lengthy geographic separations, but the project has continued and as of this writing we have recorded 861 numbered sessions. For our eighth public event, we invite you to celebrate with us 30 years of noise, 30 years of exploration, 30 years of trying to figure out what we're doing, 30 years of argument in creative musical expression.

Banned Rehearsal is: Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, and Neal Kosály-Meyer.

 

Recorded

 

June 15, 2014

3 Nocturnes op. 9 - Chopin - Claudio Arrau

 

Beginning again higher to descend yet further

Affectual modulation, by affectual common tone

holding moment until moment is all that is

passion in all its awkward splendor

 

Scherzo and Presto Passionata op. posth. - Schumann - Peter Frankl

 

Music emerging from figuration or figuration sparking from music?

 

Overture from Der Fliegender Hollander - Wagner - Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz

 

coin flip: Passion!

coin flip: Purity!

coin flip: Sea!

coin flip: Land!

coin flip: Solitude!

coin flip: Society!

coin flip: Alienation!

coin flip: Acceptance!

 

Sonetto del Petrarco No. 104 - Liszt - Charles Rosen

 

see Chopin above: H M U M I A T I

 

Le Corsair Overture - Berlioz - L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet

 

Claus Bantzer

June 18, 2014

Drei Gesänge op. 42 - Brahms - Harvestehude Chamber Choir - Claus Bantzer

 

communal intimacy, to which an accompaniment would be a chill, like a chaperone. I love how the staggered cadence at the end of #3 echoes the staggered entrance of #1.

 

Slavonic March - Tchaikovsky - Concertgebouworkest, Amsterdam, Bernard Haitink

 

such nice uniforms! a cartoon triumphalism.

 

Messe in D minor  - Bruckner - Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Eugen Jochum, Marga Schiml, Wieslaw Ochman, Karl Ridderbusch, Josef Schmidhuber, Elmar Schloter

 

Brucknerian structural articulation: ecstatic non sequiturs, or perfectly logical sequences that read like non sequiturs. As in: "Wait, what?"