In this case bits SHOULD just be bits to a downloader. As a computer guy, that makes zero sense. Curiously, each time the fix appeared to be downloading a new downloader, or at least that's what support tells me to do (a day after I email), and then it works fine. Most frequently, a couple tracks in an album, or an entire album, fails download. But playing a few at a time, as one might sample sweets on a dessert cart, can serve as a reminder that, despite the headlines of the present day, joy can prevail. You may not wish to listen to all 16 rags consecutively, in one sitting.
In a very different vein is "The Serpent's Kiss," a very silent film traversal that includes a pouncing bite, devious turns, and strange percussive effects. I loved Old Adam from The Garden of Eden, and thought the opening hilarious. Estela: Rag Latino has been described as Bolcom meets Bernstein on the West Side, and is inventive as all get out.Įveryone will have their favorites in this representative sampling. I found it so energizing that I ceased my note-taking and, instead of ducking from the blows, jumped up to dance. Moving closer to the 21st century, Knockout: A Rag includes literal knocking on the piano. Whether you know what that means, you will certainly recognize the intentional old-time melodramatic feel of Dream Shadows, which the late pianist, Paul Jacobs, describes as a "white telephone rag" that would not sound out of place in a Joan Crawford flick. Bolcom describes it as an exploration of nearly every "frozen" appoggiatura and substitution in the harmonic book. The early Poltergeist, one of Bolcom's three Ghost Rags, is a major tease. Inspired by Joplin's ragtime opera, Treemonisha, the work includes a surprising slowdown where you'd least expect it.įrom there on, it's one rhythmic and harmonic surprise after the other. The inventive twists and turns first appear in the second rag on the 16-rag recording, Glad Rag from Bolcom's first three-rag collection, Classic Rags. He immediately began to compose rags of his own, at one point even trading rags by mail with the late composer/pianist William Albright.įrom Bolcom's first rags, the Three Classical Rags, to his latest efforts, Estela: Rag Latino, Knockout: A Rag," and The Brooklyn Dodge, which were completed by 1998, it is clear that the form inspires his mind to fire on all cylinders. In Jed Distler's too-short liner notesI wish they had given this eloquent piano expert more space, but the CD issue doesn't even mention that all but two tracks on the recording were captured in 24/192 at Sono Luminus Studios in Boyce, VAwe learn that Bolcom first discovered the rags of Scott Joplin and others in 1967, when he was a 29-year old faculty member at Queens College, CUNY. Also available as a hi-rez download, Myer's delightful takes on Bolcom's rags dispel any notion that the rag is a predictable but ultimately limited art form. Ragtime Reflections: Three Dedications 4:43 21.Hankering for recorded music that is witty, engaging, and filled with surprisesmusic written with a twinkle in the eye? Check out the Spencer Myer's new Steinway & Sons recording of the Piano Rags of William Bolcom (b.
Ragtime Reflections: Drama, Dissonance, and the Influence of Bach 7:12 20. Ragtime Reflections: William Bolcom, Improvisation, and Breaking the "Rules" of Ragtime 6:27 19. Ragtime Reflections: Swing Rhythm, Swing Feel - Beethoven vs. Ragtime Reflections: Levels of Syncopation 4:24 17. Ragtime Reflections: America's Original Mashup 3:39 16. Ragtime Reflections: Rifkin, Rolls, and Rediscovering Ragtime 1:21 15. Ragtime Reflections: The Journey 0:40 14. Kinhaven Sonata Finale (For Clarinet and Piano) 3:52 12.
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