2013-01-26_kotche_bing
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| - | ====== Glenn Kotche at Bing Concert Hall, January 26, 2013 ====== | ||
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| - | Stanford University\\ | ||
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| - | 8 PM, Saturday, January 26, 2013 | ||
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| - | ===== Set One ===== | ||
| - | [8:01 PM lights down, introduction by Jenny Bilfield] | ||
| - | === Individual Trains: a short film by (?) set to music by Glenn Kotche === | ||
| - | [8:10 PM ends, short talk by Glenn] | ||
| - | === Monkey Chant === | ||
| - | A solo percussion piece telling the epic Ramayana tale, performed and composed by Glenn Kotche, with accompanying shadow-puppet film by (?) | ||
| - | [8:29 PM ends, pause] | ||
| - | === John Luther Adams: Drums of Winter === | ||
| - | Work for percussion quartet, performed by Andrew Meyerson, Doug Chin, McKenzie Camp and Erika Johnson | ||
| - | [8:30 PM, set ends] | ||
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| - | ===== Set Two ===== | ||
| - | [8:59 PM, lights down] | ||
| - | === John Luther Adams: Illimaq “Spirit Journeys” (West Coast premiere), performed by Glenn Kotche === | ||
| - | [show ends 9:49 PM] | ||
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| - | ===== the Performers ===== | ||
| - | * McKenzie Camp: percussion; | ||
| - | * Doug Chin: percussion; | ||
| - | * Erika Johnson: percussion; | ||
| - | * Glenn Kotche: percussion; | ||
| - | * Andrew Meyerson: percussion; | ||
| - | * Jody Elff: sound designer. | ||
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| - | ===== Notes ===== | ||
| - | To my ears, the sound is much improved tonight over my first two visits. Could be the spare instrumentation, | ||
| - | While I found // | ||
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| - | By contrast, //Monkey Chant// was a bit more engaging, mainly because it presented a story rather than abstract visual collage effects. And it probably also helped that I had a vague idea what the story was about, although I'm sure that compressing the epic poem into a film less than 20 minutes long required a considerable amount of narrative editing! | ||
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| - | //Drums of Winter// was OK, but didn't really stand out to me as anything special ... maybe I need to hear it again for a reevaluation. In her introduction, | ||
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| - | The second set première of John Luther Adams //Illimaq// was a real treat. To me, the work did a great job of conjuring up an aural impression of wild Alaska, building up to a dramatic storm section while Glenn whaled away on his trap set, then tapering off to the quiet wind sounds of the cymbal set for the last section of the piece. | ||
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| - | Bravo! | ||
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