Roger Wright – Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

I'm trying to think if there's a piano piece out there that I like as much as this one. I'm not sure there is.

Composed by Frederic Rzewski (pronounced Shev-skee).

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Rzewski is awesome in general. He's probably one of the best living pianists.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6-MhlBSBrM

Then there's "Coming Together" - a setting of a prison inmate's letters written before his death in the Attica prison riots. Eighth Blackbird does a rendition of this on their album Fred which is wonderful. It uses minimalist principles of repetition to slowly peel away the madness coming from solitary incarceration right up to a breaking point.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDSwxZVxtjs

And there's "Moutons de Panurge" which is a piece written to be messed up as the performers play it. It takes a melody and reveals it note by note (the first note is the first note of the melody, the second and third notes of the piece are the first and second notes of the melody, the fourth, fifth and sixth notes of the piece are the first second and third notes of the melody, etc.) The performers are instructed to keep playing as they lose each other and so it turns into a round by the time everything is done, but in the middle it's an awesome kind of chaos that leaves you feeling like you never actually got to hear the melody that's driving the entire piece.

Rzewski (pronounced Shev-skee)
I highly doubt that.

Pepper says:

August 20, 2015 at 12:14 pm

The paper of record says ZHEV-ski.
Audio clip.
MagUidhir says:

August 21, 2015 at 11:16 am

If the "rz" combo in Polish is anything like ř in Czech, there's no real good way to transliterate it into English phonetics, and we as English speakers can't even really make the sound properly. There's just no 1-to-1 analog.

If I had to come up with a modern piano composer/performer, I'd probably name Ryuichi Sakamoto and be done with it.
I doubt I could name anyone else.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btyhpyJTyXg

It's unanimous! This is the best music video ever posted at the WGOM!

That was amazing.

Also, it would seem that the common theme to this week's videos is "worsen Pete's tinnitus"

Daneekas Ghost says:

August 21, 2015 at 2:02 pm

~~I knew I forgot a tag somewhere.~~

Not so much a theme for this week as a personal life goal.

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