Informationen zu "Alexander, Boag, Funk, Marshall, Montgomery, Rae and Salles A Turetzky Tribute Book 1 Double Bass Solo"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM990
EAN: 9790570459902
ISMN: M-57045-990-2
Beschreibung
American bassist-composer Bertram Turetzky celebrated his 85th birthday on 14
February 2018. He is a pioneer of contemporary repertoire for double bass,
commissioning more than 300 works for the instrument, and is a true legend in
the double bass community. A TURETZKY TRIBUTE is an international project
bringing together composers from around the world to write a piece to
celebrate the birthday of this iconic figure in the bass world. All the works
will be published by Recital Music alongside national and international
premieres. MARY RAE (USA) - Lost in Thought Mary Rae writes: 'Lost in
Thought was composed to honour of Bertram Turetzky, on his eighty-fifth
birthday and is a short piece, not quite one minute and a half, for
unaccompanied double bass. After listening to recordings of Bert Turetzky
playing so beautifully, I found myself feeling somewhat sombre, and, as the
title says, lost in thought. This piece is how I found my way back.' ERIC
FUNK (USA) - Retrospective Glance Eric Funk writes: 'As time passes, as we
age, we sometimes stop intentionally to recall, to look back over our life,
to take a retrospective glance of our lifetime. Prominent memories arise
along with feelings, sometimes with over-arching ?flavours? of time and
place, sounds-smells-feeling tones. I believe this nostalgia also carries
with it a certain hope that the fabric of our time on earth is laced with
certain positive impacts on others. As musicians, many of these remembrances
carry recollections of when we touched the hearts and imaginations of those
listening to the music we?ve created, commissioned, and performed. It?s a
very private thing, this retrospective glance. Sometimes it underpins our
view of our life as having had a certain value, hopefully carrying our
character and integrity, and, ideally, affording a sense of a life
well-lived. Life is so beautiful, when reviewed from older age.' GRAHAM BOAG
(Oman/UK) - Bluesin' It Up For Bert Graham Boag writes: 'I wanted to reflect
Bert?s [Bertram Turetzky] life long affiliation with Jazz, this is the
result. It?s a written out Jazz Solo built on a simple twelve bar Blues with
a short introduction and ending. The first two sections (A & B) introduce the
main theme and its development, then we have ?improvised' sections (C & D)
followed with the recapitulation of the main theme again with some rhythmic
alteration, before ending with a short ?outro'. I hope that ?Bluesin? it up
for Bert? will be an enjoyable play and hopefully, it will encourage players
who have not dabbled in Jazz to follow up after playing this piece.' BERNARD
SALLES (France) - A Little Gift for Bert Turetzky 'A Little Gift for Bert
Turetzky' is a short piece written in two movements, the first running
dircetly into the second. It begins with a slow first movement, with the
meoldy developing from the instrument's medium range towards the higher
notes, before calmly returning to the first tessiture. The second movement,
an allegro, repeats the themes of the first movement, changing the rhythms
and accents.' MICHAEL MONTGOMERY (USA) - The Shape of Clouds Michael
Montgomery writes: 'I?ve been aware of the work and efforts the famous
Bertram Turetzky on be behalf of our noble instrument, and we who play it,
since forever - what a treat it is to be asked to join in the effort to
produce a tribute to this icon! There are so many stories of Mr. Turetzky?s
constant lobbying of composers, begging them to consider writing for double
bass. He considered extensively the instrument?s tonal palette and how it
might be expanded, and his undertaking resulted in an impressive accumulation
of new compositions for our instrument in the contemporary idiom. I thought
it appropriate to make use of a number of these sonorities in a depiction of
the endless forms clouds might take ? lovely, sombre, threatening - changing
from season to season, day to day, and even (as I?ve discovered up here in
the mountains) minute to minute ?forms that lend themselves quite naturally
the expanded tonal palette I associate so much with the great Bertram
Turetzky.' PREMIERE: 22 April 2018 at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
(Bentonville, Arkansas, USA) by William Cross (double bass) JAMES MARSHALL
(USA) - Big Bow, Remembering Bach & Bert James Marshall writes: 'Big Bow,
Remembering Bach and Bert was composed in March, 2018 for the 85th birthday
of Bertram Turetzky and the Celebration Concert hosted by David Heyes in
November, 2018 at the Wells Cathedral School in England. First sketched two
years earlier in March, 2016 it pays tribute to the pioneer of modern bass
music and dear friend, mentor, and teacher I have known for forty years. One
never knows the limits of one?s mortality, and it is my belief tributes
should be made lavishly. Nancy and Bert Turetzky helped me to discover both
music and life in the contemporary world. From 'Intonement' 1976 to the 'Sky
of Light' duo in the 80s, 'Sky of Stars' Chamber Concerto for Contrabass and
Nine Instruments 1996, and 'Pacific Moments' duo 2015 Bert performed my music
in La Jolla and around the world in Paris, NYC, Mexico City, Australia,
Germany, England, on and on. This brief piece is a tribute to his unique
musicality that has nurtured many composers to find new creative horizons.
Before Bert, bass players aspired to play Bach cello suites to exemplify
their mastery of the bass. As time has gone by, the new generation has begun
again to play Bach and display their marvelous mastery of Bach on Youtube.
Through the source, the master, Bert, I learned the timbral potentials of
this marvelously resonant instrument. It has never been possible to utilize
all the techniques in a single piece but to mould them into a unique musical
?Turetzky? piece. I love Bach and often play the Cello Suites on my Clarinet.
Thus I combine the inspirations of Bach and Bert in this remembrance. The
title, Big Bow, refers to the larger, ponderous bow and strings of the
instrument. One might say, I learned the hard way that the bass moves
majestically, yet slower than the upper strings ? its unique world to create-
old and Turetzky New. The timbral nuances utilized in this piece are given
further explanation below: Col legno tratto: fast tremolo with hair and wood
of the bow to create a pitched, glassy sound turn the bow 90 degrees to
realise notated pitches.' JOHN ALEXANDER (UK) - that sagacious del mar cat
John Alexander writes: 'Over a number of years I?ve been fortunate to have
had a most enjoyable and lively correspondence with the great Bertram
Turetzky. His letters have been colourful ? always handwritten, each with
different hues of pen ?, colloquial and wide ranging in terms of subject
matter that might include history, politics, gardening, mystery novels, cats,
family, Chomsky, films, health, musicians, plumbing, concerts, teaching,
California fires, performing, humour, composing, sport, faculty meetings,
swimming, the state of the world, poetry, ?the noble but misunderstood
contrabass?, travel, climate change, but mostly he discusses music. My
initial letter to Bert was about contemporary techniques on the bass. But I
soon discovered that his enthusiastic interest in music went way beyond the
modern stuff, his letters spanning Early Music to Morton Feldman or Duke
Ellington, Mahler to Mingus or Monk. Within a short time of getting to know
him, I wrote a flute/bass duo ? ?rain spirit passing?, Recital Music RM192 ?
for Bert and his wife Nancy, which they recorded (on Imaginary Chicago
Records 009, 2011) and which they generously toured widely in the USA and
Europe. In one of his letters to me, Bert writes: ?The blues are very dear to
me. They bring back memories of my teenage years when I was ?jazz-mad? and
had the pleasure of ?sitting in? with some of the black stars?. Although my
piece is not a blues, it might contain certain elements and maybe a feeling
of that form. Most of all, what I hope ?that sagacious del mar cat? captures
is (a) that quality of laid back freedom, as shown in his letters, and (b) a
picture of an adventurous younger Bertram Turetzky voraciously probing the
?new? in music, with an acknowledgement that such exploration has continued
and surely sustained him through a gloriously ?giving? life. This piece for
unaccompanied contrabass is affectionately dedicated to Bert in celebration
of his 85th birthday and I wish him many more years of making music in one
form or another.'
