My new piece, which concludes the program, The Age of Wire and String, has a number of borrowings. (Much like The Shizz, “Wheelbarrow Walk” is a made-up dance that appears in the movie.) Michael Nyman was asked by the director Peter Greenaway to borrow from Mozart’s famous Sinfonia Concertante’s second movement to create the film score for the movie Drowning By Numbers. The first movement, one of my favorite, “Trysting Fields,” literally takes every appoggiatura (an expressive sighing gesture) that appears in the Mozart, puts them in order, repeats them three times, and somehow, magically, it works. Tonight, we “borrow” that lag here as we try to recreate the glitches of internet speed in real-time. Oliver Knussen and Nico Muhly take music from Perotin and William Byrd and make it new with their vibrant orchestral colors.Ĭassandra Miller’s Just So riffs on a Bach Chorale Harmonization turning it into a kind of wild avant-garde fiddling experience, while Ted Hearne “samples” a hip hop artist Kenzo, The Shizz, a fun, silly song from the early 2000s.Īngélica Negrón’s Marejada was originally commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, but as the 2020 pandemic encroached she had to get creative and so she wrote a piece meant to be performed over Zoom - internet lags and all. Whether it’s Renaissance composers making a “parody” mass (literally copy a chunk of someone else’s mass and pasting it to their own work), Debussy discovering gamelan music to inspire his own resonant piano works, or hip hop artists sampling older music to make new beats, the result is the same: new things are made out of old ones, and as a consequence, a powerful sense of lineage and history emerges from such new combination.Įvery piece on this program either borrows or is borrowed from. It does not store any personal data.Over the past few years, I have developed a great interest in musical borrowings: how ideas from other places, other artists, and other time periods have had the effect of creating new and surprising works.Īfter all, as musicians, borrowing is part of our lineage. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary".
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