Playlist

Recorded

April 12, 2015
Requiem - Liszt - Hungarian People's Army Chorus, Janos Ferencsik

trying to look like Horowitz

As severe and restrained a setting as one could wish for, resources reduced to the narrow particularities of men's voices, organ, timpani, and occasional brass. The highest tenor voice is to die for.

alternate movement II from Symphony in C minor - Brahms - Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Charles Mackerras

A bit more expansive in layout than the final version, with some variant contrapuntal details.

4 Ogives - Satie - Frank Glazer

These little piano pieces are not far removed, spiritually, from Liszt's Requiem, or perhaps more to the point, his Tenebrae, but with a conceptual wrinkle: They are each essentially identical to their fellows. The differences in detail between them are exactly and only those differences that make no difference.

Lieder und Gesänge - Mahler - (performers not known)

My indexing fell apart here. I think I dubbed this to cassette tape from a friend's CD - probably in the 90's sometime, but neglected to collect any information about the singer (female) and pianist. It may have been paired with Lieder eines fahrended Gesellen. I tried to figure out who it is by perusing discographies on line, but to no certain avail.

April 14, 2015
The Golden Spinning Wheel - Dvorak - London Symphony Orchestra, Istvan Kertesz

This piece is up near the top of list of favorite Dvorak pieces. Among other strengths it is easily the best animated Disney movie ever, like Snow White but with the pacing of Eisenstein.

Jeux d'eau - Ravel - Vlado Perlemuter
The Unanswered Question - Ives - New York Philharmonic - Leonard Bernstein

I'll take these two as a pair. They share an absolute dependence for their power on their names, or rather on the relation between their names and their affects. Each is as literal as the other. I began to think that an excellent rule-of-thumb for what classical music (in the marketing sense) is, is just that music in which the name of the piece has an essential relation to how we perceive the piece.

In Session at the Tintinabulary

April 12, 2015
Duet 150412 - Keith Eisenbrey

Slide whistle and acoustic steel-string guitar. I added some barn-silo reverb to the final in order to mitigate some unfortunate wind noise on the slide-whistle track.

April 13, 2015
Banned Telepath 32 150413 Seattle
Banned Telepath 32 150413 Somerville
Banned Rehearsal 883 150413 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Neal Kosály-Meyer (in Seattle); Aaron Keyt (in Somerville)

Playlist

Recorded

 

September 14, 2014

Variations on a Schumann Theme op. 23 - Brahms - Sharon Gunderson, Jo Ann Smith

 

Appropriate for polite company - only enough Sturm und Drang to peg its time period.

 

Quartet in E minor op. 30 - Tchaikovsky - Copenhagen String Quartet

Tchaikovsky

 

The episodes allow their own existence to mature before allowing movement away. Nested doors open to new episodes. Concert Music Form at the height of ossification.

 

September 17, 2014

Graduale 'Locus iste'  - Bruckner - Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Eugen Jochum

 

Of the vertical extension of soul and its fleshly contingency.

 

Carnival - Dvorak - Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Vaclav Neumann

 

By the book - for use at the beginning of a generic symphony concert.

Scriabin

5 Preludes op. 15 - Scriabin - Michael Ponti

 

Ornamented impassioned immobility.

 

September 18, 2014

Suite #2 - Rachmaninoff - John Ogdon, Brenda Lucas

 

A bit of a yawn despite some valiant playing.

 

In Session at the Tintinabulary

 

September 14, 2014

Crestline 140914 - Keith Eisenbrey

 

Continuing my improvisation project, and folding the second half of the session over the first. The Crestline is a tenor banjo that found its way to me about 25 years ago.

 

September 15, 2014

Banned Rehearsal 869 - Pete Comley, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Meyer

 

The whole gang came over to wish Aaron a happy journey. Pete brought a box of toys.

Playlist

Live

 

June 27, 2014

Banned Rehearsal Celebrates 30 Years of Noise

Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle

Banned Rehearsal at 30
LtoR: Neal, Steve, Keith, Karen, Aaron

 

Before the performance began, we had clocked 34 days, 10 hours, 36 minutes, and 49 seconds of recorded sound, including 861 numbered sessions, peripherals, and proto-sessions. We continue to occupy proudly the distant sloughy backwaters of Seattle's improvisation scene. Banned Rehearsal is: Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, and Neal Kosály-Meyer.

 

Recorded

 

June 24, 2014

The Gladiator March - Sousa - Philip Jones Ensemble, Elgar Howarth

 

up and down the square (the vid game score)

 

In Nature's Realm - Dvorak - Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Vaclav Neumann

 

Fairytale Nature: spooky, but civilized spooky. Staged.

 

24 Preludes op. 11 - Scriabin - Michael Ponti

 

fracturing collisions

beneath the shards of which

further fracturing collisions

are intimated

among which

tonality is occasionally glanced at

 

June 25, 2014

Quartet in G minor (#1) - Max Reger - Reger Quartet

 

figures jammed together tight

(all the counterpoint that can be crammed)

 

Belshazzar's Feast Suite - Sibelius - Robert Kajanus

 

we are here and we are getting here

but

we did not arrive from

 

In Session at the Tintinabulary

 

June 22, 2014

Samick 140622 - Keith Eisenbrey

 

I had so much fun doing this that I brought this miniature electric guitar along to the Banned Rehearsal gig last night.

 

June 23, 2014

Gradus 245 - Neal Kosály-Meyer

 

Attention is on the precise proportion of Just Then to Is Now. An exploration of the border area between Now and Memory.