Evan Johnson

o maria — evan johnson :: composer

www.evanjohnson.info/o-maria

Tonight at the DiMenna Center in Manhattan, 7:30 PM!

Ekmeles + Mivos give the premiere of the ca. half-hour "O Maria" for six voices and four strings, alongside another big premiere from Taylor Brook and vocal music from Ekmeles's repertoire. See you there!

www.ekmeles.com/11-1-25-O-Ma...

Seiobo is high on my all-time list. Thanks for putting it on top.

Maybe me but in any case I’m certainly curious to hear whatever it is!

I mean, I was in the Netherlands when I saw his name, but you know what I mean

whoa, never thought I’d see this guys name outside the Netherlands! Was on a program with him last year

NB Nic also recorded more of the Voices and Piano pieces on a God Records LP about a decade later (including one that’s over twenty minutes long, Roman Opalka)

Not anymore.

Hi! Start with the Ives Ensemble “Madrigale” disc on HatArt or “Works with Guitar” on mode (which includes a lovely piece for soprano and ensemble conducted by one Mr Rosman)

On "dust book," the magnificence of the viola d'amore, and why most of the music I write down tends to be so barely there (and also Marco Fusi's beautiful little text from the booklet of the upcoming album):

www.anothertimbre.com/dustbook.html

Sheet music for Boulez Dialogue de l’ombré double, with Erik Bosgraaf’s CD of his own (authorised!) recorder version on top.

If you can’t plug your friends’ Boulez recordings today of all days, when can you?

YouTube video by Anothertimbre Evan Johnson 'dust book', extract played by Marco Fusi (viola d'amore)

Coming next month, in the new quarterly batch from Another Timbre: Marco Fusi's magisterial recording of my extended viola d'amore solo "dust book", which he premiered in an extremely memorable (to me, anyway) concert at Darmstadt in 2023.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwQS...

ooh this is _very_ exciting

I’m glad you feel that way, since I avoid them just because I hate the symbols. Despite my wider infatuation with enharmonic spellings.

My favourite Choice: Erik Bosgraaf Pierre Boulez selbst hat noch zugestimmt, das Erik Bosgraaf das legendäre Stück "Dialogue de l'ombre double" für sein Instrument bearbeiten darf, die Blockflöte. Im Studio Neue Musik stellt er Musik v...

Recorder phenomenon Erik Bosgraaf takes you through five pieces of contemporary music that are important to him, including my little crotale miniature “hyphen”, on the WDR:

www1.wdr.de/mediathek/au...

I know of course that you are a prolific and acclaimed writer, and rightfully so, but your invocation of the term “weenus” here may be your finest achievement

I have zero opinion about Jethro Tull but you’re wrong about Shostakovich. It’s not always boring, it can be intensely irritating too.

I definitely to on about it to students

Probably.

YouTube video by GregoryRowlandEvans CARCERI D'INVENZIONE (complete cycle) w/score [1981-86] | Brian Ferneyhough

A classic of the gramophone.

Anyway I’ve just discovered someone’s thrown this together to tide me over until the deluxe box set comes out:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=plHV...

Yeah, there are at least a couple live versions of everything floating around … but if you ask me that’s not good enough for one of the large-scale masterpieces of the second half of the century!

Might be a nice Mufab project, eh?

That’s a good guess. I was going to say Stravinsky until I realized it was a quartet.

The lack of a recording of this complete cycle, as a cycle, is a travesty

Donations to Biden’s inaugural fund in 2021:

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The Nativity

BL Add MS 49598; The Benedictional of St Æthelwold; 963-984; England, S.; f.15v

Whatever, grandpa

RIP to Jacques Roubaud, whose “The Great Fire of London” is an all-time masterpiece, one of the saddest books I have ever read, said sadness conveyed almost entirely through a uniquely disintegrating form

Jacques Roubaud writes an equation on a whiteboard in a classroom. In the top corner is his name, the year of his birth, and the year of his death.

Dalkey Archive is deeply saddened to hear about the passing of poet, writer, mathematician, and prolific member of the Oulipo group, Jacques Roubaud. We were fortunate enough to publish a dozen of his brilliant, and endlessly inventive books.

He will be missed.

My favorite is composition commission funding applications, the only possible purpose of which I can imagine is reinforcing the sort of personal relationships that are supposedly irrelevant.

DMA? Christ. That is immediately disqualifying.