A film by Zac Nicholson With George Crumb, Jeremy Gill and Chris Grymes Produced by Chris Grymes Audio Recording by Sam Kashefi Copyright 2020, Open G Records For Ann Crumb
I had the privilege of meeting Mr. Crumb twice in my life. Once in Huddersfield at the festival where he was featured and we shared a programme in Bristol with the Nash Ensemble playing. Utterly delightful and charming man. Unassuming and without any side to him whatsoever. I always enjoy the music and find the precision and the consideration in the thinking very touching. A true master of telling detail; everything counts.
What a pleasure and a relief in these times to hear a balanced and intelligent artist talk about his work.I remember first hearing Ancient Voices of Children in the 70s which set me on a path of discovering much 20th century music.A beautiful soul who will be missed.
18:18 to the end is such a beautiful moment. At first, a reflection on this scary and uncertain world. And then all of a sudden "oh look at this little dog". 🥰 Crumb is full of surprises, just like his music.
"In Bach's time they were fiddling around with this stuff." Wonderful casual way of seeing the history of music. Thank you for sharing this little gem. Wish there was more of this. 20th Century music needs way, way, way, way more attention.
Very sad news today... Crumb is dead. He was, in my opinion as a composer, the best North-American composer together with John Cage... I knew him personally in the 1980 when I was a student at the University here in Sao Paulo... Just sad... (Flo Menezes, from Sao Paulo).
Uma verdadeira lição de vida metódica e criativa. George Crumb rompeu muitos paradigmas musicais relacionados ao trítono e o cromatismo. Um gênio incontestável da contemporaneidade!!!!
gorgeous scores - used to use drawing templates like those he shows and rapidographic drafting pens with proprietary cartridges - the tips needed cleaning often - his Japanese pens are smarter - later went to pencil - white out for corrections is so messy - later did a musique concrète piece called Dog Start, built entirely on real audio from my dog, the one in my ID logo - as for space, wrote a piece called Comet Crash 9 - inspired by the crash of comet Shoemaker Levy 9 into Jupiter, initiated while it was happening - weird coincidences - as a grad student in the 70s was intensely inspired by Crumb
What he says at the end, "This dog has a better life than us composers," I know is a joke. But do we composers or aspiring composers of contemporary music really have such a dark future?
I always wonder if Crumb did the engraving himself. And now I know he did. This is the video I am so glad Zac made before the composer passed.
This is such an invaluable video, and so little known.
I had the privilege of meeting Mr. Crumb twice in my life. Once in Huddersfield at the festival where he was featured and we shared a programme in Bristol with the Nash Ensemble playing. Utterly delightful and charming man. Unassuming and without any side to him whatsoever. I always enjoy the music and find the precision and the consideration in the thinking very touching. A true master of telling detail; everything counts.
What a pleasure and a relief in these times to hear a balanced and intelligent artist talk about his work.I remember first hearing Ancient Voices of Children in the 70s which set me on a path of discovering much 20th century music.A beautiful soul who will be missed.
Rest in peace George Crumb!
18:18 to the end is such a beautiful moment. At first, a reflection on this scary and uncertain world. And then all of a sudden "oh look at this little dog". 🥰 Crumb is full of surprises, just like his music.
Love to the maestro, and all who loved him.
"In Bach's time they were fiddling around with this stuff." Wonderful casual way of seeing the history of music. Thank you for sharing this little gem. Wish there was more of this. 20th Century music needs way, way, way, way more attention.
RIP George, one of the greatest american composers.
Very sad news today... Crumb is dead. He was, in my opinion as a composer, the best North-American composer together with John Cage... I knew him personally in the 1980 when I was a student at the University here in Sao Paulo... Just sad... (Flo Menezes, from Sao Paulo).
Que prazer deve ter sido conhecer ele.
Muito triste, que sua música continue viva!
As an artist and acomposer, I've always seen Crumb as a composer. Seeing the beauty of his scores, I daresay he's an artist as well.
Such a great man!
Vale George Crumb - a gentle, modest genius.
Thank you for the vid.
Thank you for this
A real poet...
Uma verdadeira lição de vida metódica e criativa. George Crumb rompeu muitos paradigmas musicais relacionados ao trítono e o cromatismo. Um gênio incontestável da contemporaneidade!!!!
gorgeous scores - used to use drawing templates like those he shows and rapidographic drafting pens with proprietary cartridges - the tips needed cleaning often - his Japanese pens are smarter - later went to pencil - white out for corrections is so messy - later did a musique concrète piece called Dog Start, built entirely on real audio from my dog, the one in my ID logo - as for space, wrote a piece called Comet Crash 9 - inspired by the crash of comet Shoemaker Levy 9 into Jupiter, initiated while it was happening - weird coincidences - as a grad student in the 70s was intensely inspired by Crumb
So prescius, so much fun! At Cornell, he said that he loooved the appogiaturas at Puccini! (he demonstrated 9-8 at the piano)
Looking great for 90! So grateful for his music.
I’m so lucky my father is one of his best students this is not brag, this is pride
who is your daddy?
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Thank you for this.
Music for a Fractal enlightenment! One of my biggest influence. Ps,, I love chromatic tone clusters, Ives caught on ,I can’t blame him.
thank you sir
What he says at the end, "This dog has a better life than us composers," I know is a joke. But do we composers or aspiring composers of contemporary music really have such a dark future?
fascinating, i was wondering how he made those scores. wish there were more docs in a composer's studio
what's the name of the piece he's playing at 9:00?
What a pity his brain couldn't get the concept of music............................................
stop being so disrespectful, if you don't like it don't listen to it.
Yours yes?
What a pity you have no brain at all............................................