George Crumb: The Method Behind the Magic

🎶 Support the channel:   / classicalnerd   0:00 I: The Family Orchestra 3:45 II: An Overnight Flowering 17:54 III: “Extended” Techniques 32:40 IV: The Lorca Connection 39:34 V: The Theater of Music 43:40 VI: A Little Eye-Music 47:42 VII: Crumb Within the Tradition 📚 Sources/further reading: “George Crumb: Profile of a Composer,” ed. Don Gillespie (Peters, 1986) “George Crumb and the Alchemy of Sound: Essays on His Music,” ed. Steven Bruns and Ofer Ben-Amots (Colorado College Press, 2005) “The Influence of Bartók on Crumb’s ‘Music For A Summer Evening’” by Michael G. Kingan (Percussive Notes, August 2002): https://www.vapmedia.com/uploads/8/1/... “‘In Tempore Belli:’ Reflections on the Sense of the Universal in George Crumb’s Music of the Vietnam War” by Victor J. Rodriguez and Ang-Cheng Kris Ho (Journal of Literature and Art Studies, July 2015, Vol. 5, No. 7): https://www.davidpublisher.com/Public... “Direct Quotation in the Music of George Crumb” by Wut Tai Ming (MPhil thesis, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004): https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/48533... “Between Romanticism and Modernism and Postmodernism: George Crumb’s ‘Black Angels’” by Blair Johnston (Music Theory Online, Volume 18, Number 2, June 2012): https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.12.18.2... “‘Black Angels (Thirteen Images from the Dark Land)’—The New York String Quartet (1972)” by Victoria Adamenko: https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/n... “Opus Focus” by Carlton Wilkinson (Brunswick Review, Spring 2016): https://www.brunswickgroup.com/media/...    • Conversation with George Crumb & David Sta...      • Vox Hominis - with George Crumb      • George Crumb Interview   https://www.cavanaghfuneralhome.com/o... ---------- Music (all by Crumb unless noted): Thomas Little: Dance! #2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette Ancient Voices of Children, performed by Sophia Burgos, Johannes Rempp, and the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Teodor Currentzis:    • Crumb - Ancient Voices of Children | Teodo...   Variazioni, performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy:    • George Crumb: Variazioni. Philadelphia Orc...   Five Pieces for Piano, performed by Hoi Kei Chen:    • George Crumb - Five Pieces for Piano   Echoes of Time and the River (Echoes II), performed by the Louisville Orchestra conducted by Jorge Mester:    • George Crumb: Echoes of Time and the River...   Night Music I, performed by Amirtha Kidambi, Vasudevan Panicker, Cory Bracken, and Frederick Trumpy:    • George Crumb's "Night Music I (1), movemen...   Eleven Echoes of Autumn, 1965, performed by Helen Vidovich, Heather Roche, Patrick Dawkins, and Zubin Kanga:    • George Crumb - Eleven Echoes of Autumn   Vox Balaenae, performed by Trio Kijura (Hanna Vigren, Simone Seales, and Emi See):    • George Crumb: Vox Balaenae (1971)   Lux Aeterna, performed by Nelly Lee, Pavel Sedov and the USSR Bolshoi Theater Orchestra Soloists Ensemble conducted by Alexander Lazarev:    • George Crumb - Ancient Voices of Children ...   Night of the Four Moons, performed by Gliah Yaron and an unknown ensemble conducted by (I believe) Luis Gorelik:    • G. Crumb (born 1929) - Night of the four M...   Black Angels, performed by Jeanne Marie Conquer, Hae Sun Kang, Christophe Desjardins, and Pierre Strauch:    • George Crumb, Black Angels - Ensemble inte...   Zeitgeist, performed by some duo of Qing Jiang, Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, Alice Xu, Abigail Sin, Anna Han, Chaeyoung Park, Sophiko Simsive:    • Crumb: Zeitgeist, Six Tableaux for Two Amp...   Madrigals, Book 1, performed by Sharon Harms, Susan Cahill, and John Kinzie:    • Crumb - Madrigals, Book 1 / Sharon Harms /...   Federico's Little Songs for Children, performed by the Damselfly Trio (Chelsea Czuchra, Lindsay Buffington, and Liz Pearse):    • George Crumb - Federico’s Little Songs for...   “Crucifixus” from Makrokosmos, Vol. I, performed by Barış Büyükyıldırım:    • George Crumb Makrokosmos Volume I 4  Cruci...   “Dream Images (Love-Death Music)” from Makrokosmos, Vol. I, performed by Fabrizio Chiovetta:    • Crumb - Dream Images (Love-Death-Music) - ...   “Kronos - Kryptos,” performed by Eli Geruschat, Jeff Sagurton, Michael Rogers, Danial Kukuk, and Ross Jarrell:    • George Crumb, Kronos - Kryptos   ---------- Contact Information: Questions and comments can be directed to: nerdofclassical [at] gmail.com Facebook:   / classicalnerd   Instagram:   / the_classical_nerd   ---------- All images and audio in this video are for educational purposes only and are not intended as copyright infringement. If you have a copyright concern, please contact me using the above information.