tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post5836285145141269145..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Best music of any late-20th century composer?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-49716286894138433052007-08-10T18:14:00.000+01:002007-08-10T18:14:00.000+01:00I seem to recall attending an Alice Tully Hall, Ne...I seem to recall attending an Alice Tully Hall, New York, concert in which the American pianist/arranger/commissioner Yvar Mikhashoff (d. 1993) played his own one and two piano arrangements of some of Nancarrow's Player Piano Studies. I recall that he rushed to the concert from another, almost concurrent gig across town.<BR/><BR/>Gann also lists Yvar Mikhashoff as having arranged Nancarrow's Studies 1, 2, 3c, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 14, 18, and 19 for small emsemble. Last season, the American emsemble Alarm Will Sound toured chamber arrangements of Nancarrow by Mikhashoff, Gavin Chuck, and Derek Bermel:<BR/><BR/>http://alarmwillsound.com/events/current.htmlGarth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-85214538546045741132007-08-10T14:37:00.000+01:002007-08-10T14:37:00.000+01:00Nice link from Sequenza21 with some useful discuss...Nice <A HREF="http://www.sequenza21.com/index.php/518" REL="nofollow">link from Sequenza21</A> with some useful discussion of Nancarrow's real status.<BR/><BR/>More musical trivia for August 10. Alexander Glazunov was also born on this day, in 1865.<BR/><BR/>And non-musical trivia. On this day in 2003 the highest temperature ever was recorded in the UK - 38.5 degreesC (101.3F). And on this day in 2005 Lee Seung Seop died from exhaustion in South Korea after playing the computer game <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarCraft" REL="nofollow">StarCraft</A> continuously for 49 hours.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com