No grief without joy
- Authors: Fourie, William
- Date: 2024
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/484393 , vital:78902 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298223000785"
- Description: How does grief unfold and refold after the death of a loved one? How does it bend and diffract through the prism of loss? What are the possibilities of feeling or even love in the wake of bereavement? These questions linger as I listen to Lise Morrison's No grief without joy, released in July 2023 on Sawyer Editions. The debut portrait album comprises five works written between 2016 and 2019 in a time of feverish artistic growth while she was studying composition at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. Yet, as Morrison writes in the liner notes, this was also a ‘period that echoes, in part, the grief after [her] mother's passing at the end of 2015’.
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- Date Issued: 2024
- Authors: Fourie, William
- Date: 2024
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/484393 , vital:78902 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298223000785"
- Description: How does grief unfold and refold after the death of a loved one? How does it bend and diffract through the prism of loss? What are the possibilities of feeling or even love in the wake of bereavement? These questions linger as I listen to Lise Morrison's No grief without joy, released in July 2023 on Sawyer Editions. The debut portrait album comprises five works written between 2016 and 2019 in a time of feverish artistic growth while she was studying composition at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. Yet, as Morrison writes in the liner notes, this was also a ‘period that echoes, in part, the grief after [her] mother's passing at the end of 2015’.
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- Date Issued: 2024
Morton Feldman-Morton Feldman, Morton Feldman Piano. Philip Thomas
- Authors: Fourie, William
- Date: 2021
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/484405 , vital:78903 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298220000741"
- Description: ‘The scale of what is actually being represented, whether it be of the whole or of the part, is a phenomenon unto itself.’ Feldman’s words from his famous 1981 essay, ‘Crippled Symmetry’, echoed in my ears as I sat down to listen to Philip Thomas’s monumental new record of the composer’s piano music. It spans over four decades of the composer’s singular creative engagement with the instrument and has a total run-time of nearly six hours. The five-disc box set also contains a rich 52-page essay on Feldman’s piano music, which broaches a wide range of issues ranging from abstract, interpretative ideas regarding touch and decay to more practical discussions around notation.
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- Date Issued: 2021
- Authors: Fourie, William
- Date: 2021
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/484405 , vital:78903 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298220000741"
- Description: ‘The scale of what is actually being represented, whether it be of the whole or of the part, is a phenomenon unto itself.’ Feldman’s words from his famous 1981 essay, ‘Crippled Symmetry’, echoed in my ears as I sat down to listen to Philip Thomas’s monumental new record of the composer’s piano music. It spans over four decades of the composer’s singular creative engagement with the instrument and has a total run-time of nearly six hours. The five-disc box set also contains a rich 52-page essay on Feldman’s piano music, which broaches a wide range of issues ranging from abstract, interpretative ideas regarding touch and decay to more practical discussions around notation.
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- Date Issued: 2021
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