Barney Childs - Heaven to clear when day did close
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Label: New World Records
Cat No: NW80779
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 10th March 2017
Contents
Works
37 SongsAny Five
Heaven to clear when day did close
Music for Bass Drum
Music for Contrabass and Friend
Real Music
Sonata for solo clarinet
Stances for flute and silence
Artists
David Ward-Steinman (piano)Nancy Turetzky (flute, piccolo)
Bert Turetzky (double bass)
Phillip Rehfeldt (clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon)
Scott Vance (clarinet)
Ron George (percussion)
Chris Corman (bass drum)
Blake Van Vliet (bass drum)
Works
37 SongsAny Five
Heaven to clear when day did close
Music for Bass Drum
Music for Contrabass and Friend
Real Music
Sonata for solo clarinet
Stances for flute and silence
Artists
David Ward-Steinman (piano)Nancy Turetzky (flute, piccolo)
Bert Turetzky (double bass)
Phillip Rehfeldt (clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon)
Scott Vance (clarinet)
Ron George (percussion)
Chris Corman (bass drum)
Blake Van Vliet (bass drum)
About
Childs's compositions usually have wonderfully idiosyncratic aspects to them, rather than following the dictates of either a system or an established style. He said that "to make music I make choices, as we all do, but I'm unable to presume that music must prove a doctrine, and I cannot accept music merely as process made audible. I choose what will happen simply because it seems to be the right thing to have happen, and in no other way." Thus, the pieces cannot be easily analyzed, and in fact, he dismisses the idea that the value of a work can be or should be determined by whether or not the resulting work is capable of a brilliant analysis.
His pieces consciously play with the listener's expectations, constantly balancing the familiar with the unexpected, so that the listener is "anticipating what is about to happen: the future is defined and qualified, as far as we can define it, by expectation and anticipation, and this is continually being fulfilled or surprised." This is exactly what makes a Childs piece work: the interplay between what is expected and what is not. This recording is a tribute to Childs by some of his close friends, performed and produced as a labour of love.
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