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Fierce Beauty Part I - Jacaranda Music at First Presbyterian Church Of Santa Monica
Courtesy of Patrick Scott | Posted on January 2, 2024
When
Sun, February 25, 2024
4:00 pm
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Musicians
Kahil El'Zabar
drumsEthnic Heritage Ensemble
band / ensemble / orchestraDavid Murray
saxophone, tenorAlex Harding
saxophone, baritoneCorey Wilkes
trumpetAbout
Schoenberg’s Five Piano Pieces, Op. 23, which marks the crystallization of his twelve-tone technique is the launchpad. Other groundbreaking piano methods are heard in Leo Ornstein’s Suicide in an Airplane, distinctive for its tone clusters. Pierre Boulez’s fascinating 12 Notations uses the number 12 as a self-imposed structure with a 12-note row forming the basis of 12 solo piano pieces, each just 12 bars long. The indirect passing of the Schoenberg baton is heard in A Love Supreme, a progressive jazz masterpiece by the famed innovator John Coltrane, whose groundbreaking style is rooted in Schoenberg’s techniques, gleaned from his teacher Dennis Sandole, a Schoenberg student...