The (Nearly) Forgotten Father Of Minimalist Music
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- čas přidán 15. 12. 2020
- Julius Eastman is one of the greatest contributors to 20th century and minimalist music, but thanks to racism and homophobia, his legacy was nearly forgotten.
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SOURCES:
Packer, R. L., Leach, M. J. (2018). Gay guerrilla: Julius Eastman and his music. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.
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Julius is my grandfathers brother. I wish I got to meet him.
wow that's wild! i wish you did too 💔
I performed a Julius Eastman piece, recorded and performed live for The Studio Arena production of Othello in February 1971. We had dinner together after the recording session and I subsequently performed a live version during performances.
Is the recording available to listen to?
I’m ecstatic his music is finding its way out in the world. There hasn’t been many documentations of his story or his music, so thank you.
I hope there are more and more!
Discovered Eastman by accident in the new Apple Classical app. What a talent. Minimalism with an attitude.
My professor Joel Thome had Unjust Malaise on his desk one day. He gifted it to me and It was my train music for quite a while and it would just fucking electrify me
Thank you sooo much for making a video about him. Glad his music has been having something of a renaissance in recent years.
Thank you.
I have a copy of Femenine that I don't remember listening to. Now I have to explore more.
ur version of that piece in the background is cool. nice video
Just found your channel and absolutely love it. Currently studying Eastman in my first year of music at university and wanted to know more about his work and life as a young LGBTQ person looking for role models in experimental music. Thank you for this!
amazing! so glad you love it!! :) glad to hear Eastman came up in your curriculum. he didn't in mine!
@@SoundsGoodChannel there’s been a big push recently in who’s voices are being represented! still not perfect but the difference is really appreciated when I speak to slightly older musicians
That’s great to hear. Hoping to keep that trend going! :)
Just saw a performance on tiny desk; rabbit hole confirmed
Please consider not cutting off the short pauses (breaths) after each sentence is uttered in your future videos. Just as speakers need to breathe between sentences, listeners need that time, too.
This is great, I didn't know anything about Eastman before your video.
Thanks again.
Excellent video, thank you, I learned a lot! I would suggest making the background music much lower, though - sometimes your voice was the background and hard to hear over the music. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the feedback!
@@SoundsGoodChannel For what it's worth I also agree, the music is a little too loud and a little too fast-paced, so it gets a little distracting (in my opinion, of course). Still, fantastic video, keep up the great work!
Sarah you're killing it with these!
your videos are really awesome! thank you!
This was wonderful. Thank you.
thanks for this! one of my favorite composers
Wow I just discovered this channel, amazing! Thanks
Thank you so much for sharing, I had no idea about his life and work
Excellent video, thankyou! The melody you play in the background would make and awesome melodic tech track
This is amazing! Thank you!
Really enjoyed this episode. I've never heard Julius Eastman's music before but your beautiful tribute and ponderings have me curious! Will definitely check him out. Xx
Thank you for sharing this vital education on his life story as well as his music 💜
Thank you for this. This is so informative and empowering to listen to.
i really liked this video, thank you so much!!
Really good stuff please keep it up!
Great video!
Loving the videos! Keep them coming!
wahoo! will do! ;)
Cecil Taylor was gay and black. I am wondering what your thoughts are on why Eastman's music was almost completely forgotten while Cecil Taylor's work was celebrated, even earning him a few awards in the early 70s, the same era when Eastman's music was being ignored. Why do you think this was the case?
I’d say it has to do with black musicians not having space within classical music circles during that time period, which is a huge shame. Cecil was a black free improvising musician, which was a space created by black musicians. That would be my answer, there are probably music historians who would have a better answer.
I think I found out about Julius Eastman's music through Kyle Gann's blog. My best friend got me Unjust Malaise for Christmas one year and I was blown away by it, especially the works for 4 pianos. Thanks for this video
Awesome episode !
Thanks Kelly! 💖
I really liked this /// thanks!
this is an incredible walk through Eastmans life
hey - thanks for the shoutout!
God bless her for doing this !
Awesome video. Awesome channel. THANK YOU! Where can I listen to your music??
thanks so much! sarah-feldman.com is where i try to keep track of the stuff i do!
yes I was in love with him
When I was an intern, I recorded Arthur Russel. Blew me away when I heard/saw him here. 🤯
I cam across julius eastman through Matt Marble's Secret Sound podcast. julius is one of the most compelling and tragic stories told on that podcast. I recommend it for more spiritually inspired lesser known composers.
thank you
You mean "the child of Minimalism".
Julius Joy Boy you are the Jesus Christ of Western Music. Foirgive them for they know NOT what they do. I send you some vinegar
Congratulations on this. Marvelous. I reviewed the SEM Ensemble Performance of Cage's "Songbooks" that so incensed Cage for the Buffalo News. It's really not true that Cage was "closeted" at the time. His homosexuality was almost universally known. But it simply did not engage his music philosophically the way it did Julius's. Imagine, if you can, W. H. Auden poems recited by Harvey Fierstein and you'll understand the yawning gulf between the two. Julius couldn't help but become more political as his life proceeded, in my opinion. Add to that drug problems and you have the sad tale of his decline and obscurity at the end of his life. Julius's politics are so much more sympathetic to people now. Cage's lack of politics is so much less.
Ahhhh $hit. I really don't have time for another deep rabbit hole, right now. But I feel like Sarah is going to be it. Ok, fine....take me down...
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Please reduce the volume of the background music, it is madly annoying, it almost drowns out your voice at times..
Julius deserves way better than this crap video