how does the audience clap/react: 3:19 - halfnotes 4:19 - quaternotes 5:19 - 3/2 polyrhytm, each 3 pulses of music - 2 claps. easier to hear it around 6:20 7:30 - whole notes around 9:10 audience starts to clap quaternotes again, then halfnotes for a moment 10:00 - eight notes 11:05 - quaternotes again 11:28 - halfnotes 12:30 - quaters with halfnote accents 13:42 - quaters
Wow... I first hear this piece live in 1973, performed by Black Earth (which recorded it). This is far better, full of life. much more in the general spirit of Rzewski's music.
This goes to show how hard it can be to get a classical audience to participate the way an audience at a pop/rock concert would. Participation is largely absent until permission is fully granted from a performer taking the lead by clapping over his head. I love how after everyone is clapping on the quarter note, the percussionist gets the audience to syncopate, then they can't sustain it, so they fall out of synchrony with each other and settle 1 metrical level higher. Brilliant piece and performance.
I think Rzewski deeply resented the traditional way in which concerts usually happen, and I think this also points to a real problem: auditoriums are more and more empty because they have calcified into museum pieces, where nothing is alive, whereas people like Rzewski understood that the audience isn't the same as in the 19th century. The 21th century needs more composers like him who can empower the audience in a new way, as great composers in the past did (in a totally different way)
νηπενθές we are too! Check out our upcoming concerts and also find out which will be live streamed at our website: www.afarcry.org and of course, we will keep postinf vids to our channel. Glad you enjoyed this crazy performances! :)
I know! It's such a crazy piece, right?! Everyone is supposed to get into their own personal groove - creating quite a bit of chaos in the process! Thanks for listening!! :)
Eighth Blackbird hardly make any mistakes (if any) in their version, and it's boring. The slips are what gives this piece counterpoint! Rzewski's instruction is "Once lost, stay lost"
how does the audience clap/react:
3:19 - halfnotes
4:19 - quaternotes
5:19 - 3/2 polyrhytm, each 3 pulses of music - 2 claps. easier to hear it around 6:20
7:30 - whole notes
around 9:10 audience starts to clap quaternotes again, then halfnotes for a moment
10:00 - eight notes
11:05 - quaternotes again
11:28 - halfnotes
12:30 - quaters with halfnote accents
13:42 - quaters
@@jebbishop3 youre askin me to explain it in simpler terms dawg?
What people think I listen to when I say I like classical music:
- Mozart, Beethoven etc
What I actually listen to:
Wow... I first hear this piece live in 1973, performed by Black Earth (which recorded it). This is far better, full of life. much more in the general spirit of Rzewski's music.
@12.30 camera is shaking haha so much fun for everyone
This goes to show how hard it can be to get a classical audience to participate the way an audience at a pop/rock concert would. Participation is largely absent until permission is fully granted from a performer taking the lead by clapping over his head.
I love how after everyone is clapping on the quarter note, the percussionist gets the audience to syncopate, then they can't sustain it, so they fall out of synchrony with each other and settle 1 metrical level higher. Brilliant piece and performance.
I think Rzewski deeply resented the traditional way in which concerts usually happen, and I think this also points to a real problem: auditoriums are more and more empty because they have calcified into museum pieces, where nothing is alive, whereas people like Rzewski understood that the audience isn't the same as in the 19th century. The 21th century needs more composers like him who can empower the audience in a new way, as great composers in the past did (in a totally different way)
Well this is unlike anything I've ever heard before, brilliant job!
Thank you! It was an incredibly unique experience for us as well! So fun to get the audience engaged in that way!
Such an eye-opening, interesting piece! I love it.
We are so glad you enjoyed it! We had a lot of fun performing it!
Ah Im so sad I did not know about this event!
νηπενθές we are too! Check out our upcoming concerts and also find out which will be live streamed at our website: www.afarcry.org and of course, we will keep postinf vids to our channel. Glad you enjoyed this crazy performances! :)
Any program notes to this performance?
Never mind found the group webpage!
Whoa! Started to fall apart around 6:00-ish and we haven't even got to the end of the tune yet!
I know! It's such a crazy piece, right?! Everyone is supposed to get into their own personal groove - creating quite a bit of chaos in the process! Thanks for listening!! :)
Eighth Blackbird hardly make any mistakes (if any) in their version, and it's boring. The slips are what gives this piece counterpoint! Rzewski's instruction is "Once lost, stay lost"
@@robthorpemusic but continue to follow the rules.
That is indeed 'a far cry' from conventional practice! :)