ESP - New York Counterpoint - Steve Reich
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- Eastman Saxophone Project
March 18th, 2011
NASA Region 8 Conference
Eisenhower Ballroom, West Point, NY
New York Counterpoint - Steve Reich arr. by Susan Fancher
Dannel Espinoza, soprano saxophone
Matt Amedio, soprano saxophone
Keenan McKoy, soprano saxophone
Diane Hunger, alto saxophone
Michael Sawzin, alto saxophone
Sean Yusheng Xue, alto saxophone
Marta Tiesenga, alto saxophone
Matt Evans, tenor saxophone
Mark Viavattine, tenor saxophone
Chris Doser, tenor saxophone
Quinn Lewis, baritone saxophone
Nicholas Exler, baritone saxophone
Clever, heartfelt, pratcised, enthusiatically played, precise, beautiful, almost heart rending in its intensity. And what's more, those musicians just grooved, no stands, no music. These are people who utterly understand what they're doing, and add a small element of theatricality to their repertoire.
It's fabulously stirring stuff, and much as I rate Music for 18 Musicians and Music for people stood around with Bits Of Wood (both of which I adore), this scores higher I I suspect it digs a little deeper into the Reich psyche - he's a New Yorker, isn't he? - but if that's right, the nature of NY is there for all to experience. Not always frenetic; not always full on. But when it's engaged and gets going, it's apparently a motor in itself, intense, complicated, playful, in your face - everything I expect a city to be.
Major thumbs up fro this side of the pond.
I would have been out of my chair - a standing ovation for those amazingly talented musicians!
This is an excellent version for Saxophones! Wow!!! Bravo!!! 👏👏👏👏👏
this has been said already, but this is by far the best live performance of a complicated electronic steve reich piece i've ever seen/heard... really brilliant. great job to everyone!
Such precision in articulation! I wish I could do that! 2:17 It sounds like the saxes talk! But I suppose they do in all of your songs. You guys are simply amazing!
Hands down, my favorite performance at the conference!
Amazing. What a great performance!
Brought a smile to my face, great work :)
the audience doesn't really seem to care (or understand?) at the end - i would have given a much louder, longer standing ovation for this
Yeah, talk about pearls before swine; what a bunch of complete stiffs. Even if you really *don't* like a piece or a performance, simple courtesy to live musicians playing their hearts out demands more. Crappy way to treat superb musicians killing it on a superb piece of music.
ESP should have flipped them all the bird in perfect unison before walking off stage.
Great performance!!!
Whoa... Phenomenal.
I happened to have my metronome clicking away at 60 bpm while listening and they started and stayed in sync for the longest time. Perhaps they are listening to a click track whilst performing. Check it out. . .
this is wonderful. don't spose i could have a sneaky peak at the arrangement?
Hello, could you say to me who has to realize the arrangement of this part ?
Sounds pretty good for a version arranged for saxes. Third movement gets particularly funky with those baritones. Still, I'm more partial to the clarinet versions. Because a soprano never sounds exactly like B-flat clarinet nor does baritone sound at all like bass clarinet. Saxes do have more shrillness to them, I mean they were designed to sound like woodwinds as loud as brass. To be fair, Philip Glass' pieces would sound different too if clarinets would replace soprano and alto saxes.
Saxophones aren't supposed to sound like clarinets.....