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Symphony No. 4 (Glass)
Symphony No. 4 ("Heroes") is a symphony composed by American composer Philip Glass in 1996 based on the album '' "Heroes"'' by David Bowie. Glass had based his earlier Symphony No. 1 on the David Bowie album ''Low''. Symphony The symphony is scored for 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 3 horns, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone, tuba, percussion, harp, piano, celesta and strings. The symphony is in six movements: "Abdulmajid", the David Bowie song on which the second movement was based, was not included on the original release of ''Heroes'', but was recorded around the ''Heroes'' recording sessions. The song would later be released on the Rykodisc reissue of the album in 1991. Album The album ''"Heroes" Symphony'' includes only the ''"Heroes" Symphony'' performed by American Composers Orchestra directed by Michael Riesman and conducted by Dennis Russell Davies Dennis Russell Davies (born April 16, 1944, in Toledo, Ohio) is an Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Glass
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimal music, minimalism, being built up from repetitive Phrase (music), phrases and shifting layers. He described himself as a composer of "music with repetitive structures", which he has helped to evolve stylistically. Glass founded the Philip Glass Ensemble in 1968. He has written 15 operas, numerous chamber operas and musical theatre works, 14 symphony, symphonies, 12 concertos, nine string quartets, various other chamber music pieces, and many film scores. He has received nominations for four Grammy Awards, including two for Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition, Best Contemporary Classical Composition for ''Satyagraha (opera), Satyagraha'' (1987) and ''String Quartet No. 2 (Glass), String Quartet No. 2'' (1988). He has received three Academy Award for Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harp
The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orchestras or concerts. Its most common form is triangular in shape and made of wood. Some have multiple rows of strings and pedal attachments. Ancient depictions of harps were recorded in Mesopotamia (now Iraq), Persia (now Iran) and Egypt, and later in India and China. By medieval times harps had spread across Europe. Harps were found across the Americas where it was a popular folk tradition in some areas. Distinct designs also emerged from the African continent. Harps have symbolic political traditions and are often used in logos, including in Ireland. Historically, strings were made of sinew (animal tendons). Other materials have included gut (animal intestines), plant fiber, braided hemp, cotton cord, silk, nylon, and wire. In pedal harp scor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Riesman
Michael Riesman is a composer, conductor, keyboardist, and record producer, best known as Music Director of the Philip Glass Ensemble and conductor of nearly all of Glass' film scores. Biography Michael Riesman studied composition with Peter Stearns and conducting with Carl Bamberger at the Mannes College of Music and got a B.S. there in 1967. The summer of 1967 he went to the Aspen Music Festival where he studied with Darius Milhaud, and won the student composition prize. He then went on to study composition with Leon Kirchner, Roger Sessions, and Earl Kim at Harvard, where he earned an M.A. and PhD (1972). He was a composer in residence at the Marlboro Music Festival in 1969 and a fellow at Tanglewood in 1970. He was awarded a Fulbright Program, Fulbright fellowship in 1970 and studied with Gottfried von Einem in Vienna. He moved to New York City in the summer of 1971 and then taught at SUNY-Purchase that winter, leaving in the summer of 1972 to dedicate himself full-time to a per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Composers Orchestra
The American Composers Orchestra (ACO) is an American orchestra administratively based in New York City, specialising in contemporary American music. The ACO gives concerts at various concert venues in New York City, including: * Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall * The DiMenna Center * The Mannes School of Music * Winter Garden at Brookfield Place * Miller Theatre at Columbia University History Francis Thorne, Dennis Russell Davies, Paul Lustig Dunkel and Nicolas Roussakis co-founded the ACO in 1975. The ACO gave its first performance on 7 February 1977 at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. Davies served as the ACO's founding music director from 1977 to 2002, and now has the title of conductor laureate with the ACO. In November 2000, Steven Sloane was named the ACO's new music director, effective with the 2002–2003 season. The appointment was unusual in that Sloane had not conducted the ACO prior to his appointment. Sloane's first conducting appearance with the ACO was in Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
V-2 Schneider
"V-2 Schneider" is a largely instrumental song written by David Bowie in 1977 for the album '' "Heroes"'', and released as the B-side of " Heroes". The song was not played on the subsequent Isolar II Tour and its first live rendition occurred in 1997, 20 years after it was recorded. ''Mojo'' magazine listed it as Bowie's 95th best track in 2015. Background It was a tribute to Florian Schneider,Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray (1981). ''Bowie: An Illustrated Record'': p.92 co-founder of the band Kraftwerk, whom Bowie acknowledged as a significant influence at the time. The title also referenced the V-2 rocket, the first ballistic missile, which had been developed for the German Army during World War II, and whose design (and engineers) played a key role in the American space program. The only words sung are those in the title, initially distorted by phasing.Nicholas Pegg (2000). Op Cit: p.228 Musically, the track is unusual for the off-beat saxophone work by Bowie, who kicked off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neuköln
"Neuköln" is an instrumental piece written by David Bowie and Brian Eno in 1977 for the album '' "Heroes"''. It was the last of three consecutive instrumentals on side two of the original vinyl album, following "Sense of Doubt" and " Moss Garden". Neukölln (correctly spelled with a double "L") is both a borough and quarter of Berlin. Bowie's and Eno's music has been interpreted as reflecting in part the rootlessness of the Turkish immigrants who made up a large proportion of the area's population.David Buckley (1999). ''Strange Fascination – David Bowie: The Definitive Story'': p.325 Edgar Froese, founder of Tangerine Dream, in whose Schöneberg apartment Bowie lived in between 1976 and 1978,Roy Carr & Charles Shaar Murray (1981). ''Bowie: An Illustrated Record'': p.92 had been a big influence on Bowie, and one of the driving factors that enticed him to move to Berlin. Bowie called Froese's 1975 album '' Epsilon in Malaysian Pale'', which (like ''Neuköln'') mostly played wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sons Of The Silent Age
"Sons of the Silent Age" is a song written by David Bowie in 1977 for the album '' "Heroes"''. According to Brian Eno, it was the only song on the album composed prior to the recording sessions, all others being improvised in the Hansa by the Wall studio. Bowie himself indicated that ''Sons of the Silent Age'' could at one stage have been the title for the album, rather than ''"Heroes"''. Analysis, recording, and release Biographer David Buckley remarked on the song's "doomy sax-driven verses set incongruously aside cheesy choruses".David Buckley (1999). ''Strange Fascination - David Bowie: The Definitive Story'': p.321 The lyrics have been interpreted as a third-person revisitation of the themes of psychotic withdrawal explored on Bowie's previous album ''Low'' ("Pacing their rooms just like a cell's dimensions"), as well as referencing the characters from his 1970 song " The Supermen" ("They never die they just go to sleep one day")Roy Carr & Charles Shaar Murray (1981). ''Bow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sense Of Doubt
"Sense of Doubt" is an instrumental piece written by David Bowie in 1977 for the album '' "Heroes"''. It was the first of three instrumentals on Side Two of the original vinyl album that segued into one another, preceding " Moss Garden" and " Neuköln". Cited as "portentous" and "thoroughly foreboding",David Buckley (1999). ''Strange Fascination - David Bowie: The Definitive Story'': p.324Roy Carr & Charles Shaar Murray (1981). ''Bowie: An Illustrated Record'': pp.92-94 "Sense of Doubt" is one of the darker tracks of the album, with a descending four-note piano motif juxtaposed with "an eerie synth line like a scrap of sound from a silent expressionist-era soundtrack". Brian Eno suggested that the contrasting themes were the result of him and Bowie each following an Oblique Strategies card to guide them in the track's overdubbing, Eno's directing him to "make everything as similar as possible" and Bowie's to "emphasize differences". "Sense of Doubt" was performed on the Italian T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
"Heroes" (David Bowie Song)
"Heroes" is a song by the English musician David Bowie from his 12th studio album of the same name. Co-written by Bowie and Brian Eno and co-produced by Bowie and Tony Visconti, the song was recorded in mid-1977 at Hansa Studio 2 in West Berlin. The backing track was recorded fully before lyrics were written; Bowie and Eno added synthesiser overdubs while Robert Fripp contributed guitar. To record the vocal, Visconti devised a "multi-latch" system, wherein three microphones were placed at different distances from Bowie and would open when he sang loud enough. As with other album tracks, he improvised lyrics while standing at the microphone. An art rock song that builds throughout its run time, Heroes concerns two lovers, one from East Berlin and the other from the West. Under constant fear of death, they dream they are free, swimming with dolphins. Bowie placed the title in quotation marks as an expression of irony on the otherwise romantic or triumphant words and music. Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Movement (music)
A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form. While individual or selected movements from a composition are sometimes performed separately as stand-alone pieces, a performance of the complete work requires all the movements to be performed in succession. A movement is a section (music), section, "a major structural unit perceived as the result of the coincidence of relatively large numbers of structural phenomena". Sources [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
