On the 85th anniversary of the launch of WNYC, David Garland hosts an evening that gives our live, web and radio audience a glimpse into the birth-year of our station, 1924. Combining music, film and chat, the evening explores iconic, epoch-defining pieces of music from 1924, including George Antheil's Ballet Mechanique, George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Giacomo Puccini's Turandot, and Jelly Roll Morton's Big Foot Ham and Bucktown Blues. The featured artists, which include Marta Eggerth, Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran, Matt Marks, and Dave Burrell, share an evening that's grounded in the touchstones of the past but still bears the unmistakable imprint and flavors of the present.
Evening Music presents WNYC's 85th Anniversary LIVE from the Greene Space on July 8th at 7pm, on 93.9 FM and with streaming video at wnyc.org/thegreenespace. To see the complete evening's video as well as more information on the featured artists please go here.
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Marta Eggerth
Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran
Matt Marks and Gerswhin
Comments [2]
I wanted to say a big thank you to WNYC for seeking such diverse programming for this event. While one could easily spend a luxusrious evening listening to Marta Eggerth or the Moran couple, I really appreciated the adventurous programming of the Ballet Mechanique and the Remix'd Gershwin. I found both pieces to be deeply satisfying if also challenging.
As for the above commenter, I'm not quite sure Nick from the UWS understands the concept of a remix, but personally, I can't think of a better way to show how a piece can live again in the ears of the young than by adopting the same electronic techniques our young composers are reaching to use.
(Let us also remember that Gershwin was criticized on the very night of his premiere for bastardizing the concert hall with his jazz licks- for his trite, feeble and vapid harmonic treatment, and lifeless melody....) Sometimes certain ears are just not ready to be challenged, some of us are ready, and eager- thank you WNYC for listening!
Holy jeez....poor George Gershwin...his beautiful work savaged into that hideous unlistenable charmless mess. So characteristic of today's composers; unable to squeeze any music out of their own brains, they trash up other people's work and claim it. Can anyone write anything these days? Of beauty? Anyone able to write a decent melody?
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