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April 21, 2015 Favoriting
Fred Rzewski, you are a treasure
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Artist Selection Album    (Label / Recording date)
Theme Music:
 James Brown  		Cold Sweat (pt. 1)   Favoriting b/w Cold Sweat (pt. 2)
(King 1967)

Musica Elettronica Viva  What Is Freedom?   Favoriting United Patchwork
(Horo 1977)
Steve Lacy  Shambles   Favoriting Threads
(Horo 1977)
Ursula Oppens & Frederic Rzewski  7inC   Favoriting Creative Music Studio (Archive Selections, Vol. 1)
(Innova 1978)

Talkover Music:
 Blackearth Percussion Group  		Les Moutons de Panurge   Favoriting Frederic Rzewski: Coming Together
(Opus One 1969)

Frederic Rzewski  Struggle   Favoriting New American Music, Volume 3
(Folkways 1974)
Frederic Rzewski  Lullaby: God to a Hungry Child   Favoriting New American Music, Volume 3
(Folkways 1974)

Talkover Music:
 Blackearth Percussion Group  		Les Moutons de Panurge   Favoriting Frederic Rzewski: Coming Together
(Opus One 1969)

Frederic Rzewski  Coming Together   Favoriting Coming Together
(Opus One 1972)

Closing Theme:
 Specks Williams  		We Gave the Drummer Some   Favoriting b/w Specks Blues
(Jax 196?)

Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:41pm Gary:

This is the guy you saw in Pittsburgh?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:45pm Doug Schulkind:

Yes, Gary, yes!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:46pm Doug Schulkind:

My friends, please avail yourselves of many wonderful compositions, performances and interviews with Fred Rzewski here at Ubuweb: www.ubu.com...
Avatar 6:00pm ndbob:

hello Doug Gary et al
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:01pm Doug Schulkind:

Yo, ndbob!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:05pm Doug Schulkind:

Rzewski formed this group with Alvin Curran and Richard Teitelbaum. All three appear on this recording along with...

Karl Berger ~ vibes, piano, melodion
Steve Lacy ~ soprano sax
Garrett List ~ trombone
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:09pm Doug Schulkind:

Next up, a Steve Lacy LP probably recorded within days of this Musica Elettronica Viva session.
Avatar 6:09pm glenn:

so not an hour of the fall?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:11pm Doug Schulkind:

Pride goeth before The Fall, glenn.
  6:12pm Maricôt:

wow. this song's amazing!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:13pm Doug Schulkind:

Greetings, Maricôt!
Avatar 6:13pm glenn:

well, if there's a band called pride, they should open for the fall.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:15pm Doug Schulkind:

Rzewski is on piano here. Alvin Curran is playing flügelhorn, synthesizer and small percussion. Lacy is wrassling the soprano sax.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:20pm dave:

Hi Doug and everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:21pm Doug Schulkind:

Hello, Dave. Glad you're here!

This piece 7inC was composed by Karl Berger.
  6:22pm Maricôt:

Evening and thanks for introducing me to Steve Lacy, Doug. I'm in love!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:23pm dave:

This is almost hypnotic.
Avatar 6:27pm Carmichael:

Good day Doug and netsters. I'm getting my royal Irish arse kicked at work right about now.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:31pm Doug Schulkind:

Hello, Carmichael's arse!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:34pm Doug Schulkind:

Here are Frederick Douglass's words from the poster that hung on the walls of my childhood:

"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation…want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:35pm Doug Schulkind:

@Maricôt
You are in luck. Steve Lacy was one of the most prolific musicians of the 20th century. He must've recorded 200 albums. Every one of them a gem!
Avatar 6:36pm Carmichael:

Am I deaf or is this recorded/produced at a low level? I usually only have to adjust volume for Bryce's show.
  6:36pm Maricôt:

I've been to a Rzewski concert here in 2013 by Percorso Ensemble. "To the earth" was stuck in the back of my head. The event: http://www.cpflcultura.com.br/wp/evento/musica-erudita-contemporanea-uma-noite-com-a-musica-radical-de-frederic-rzewski/
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:37pm Doug Schulkind:

It is pretty quiet, Carmichael. I just downloaded it from the Folkways website this afternoon (my vinyl copy is too clickypoppy).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:38pm Doug Schulkind:

How wonderful, Maricôt!
Avatar 6:40pm Carmichael:

Dat's cool. It's only when the next song comes booming in that my office mates give me the stink eye.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:41pm Doug Schulkind:

Like that, Carmichael, you mean?!
  6:43pm jessie:

for some reason I'm getting this tremendous craving for fish . . . .
Avatar 6:45pm Andy in Berlin:

Coming Together is such a great piece! Thanks for playing it!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:45pm Doug Schulkind:

Ha! Jessie!

So much my pleasure, Andy in Berlin!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:48pm Doug Schulkind:

This collection of Rzewski performances, compositions and interviews at Ubuweb presents another wonderful version of "Coming Together."

The narrator on this version is the Living Theatre stalwart Steven Ben Israel. (R.I.P. Judy Molina.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:49pm Doug Schulkind:

GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO PROGRAMMING ALERT...
Jesse Kaminsky's wunnerful radio show, Kaminsky Kamoutsky, kommences here on the Drummer Stream immediately following this show. Tune in and follow the action via the playlist here: wfmu.org...
Avatar 6:51pm Andy in Berlin:

Mine too!
What? There's ANOTHER version?!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:53pm Doug Schulkind:

On this performance:

Karl Berger ~ vibes
Alvin Curran ~ synth
Jon Gibson ~ alto sax
Joan Kalisch ~ viola
Garrett List ~ trombone
Richard Youngstein ~ bass
Steven Ben Israel ~ voice

Frederic Rzewski ~ piano
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:53pm Parq:

I am in tolerable physical and emotional health. (By "tolerable", of course, I mean "will probably not collapse onto the floor in the next 20 minutes".) But I am better for hearing this piece.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:54pm Doug Schulkind:

@Andy in Berlin
In 1980 Rzewski performed "Coming Together" with the Hungarian Ensemble Group 180.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:55pm Doug Schulkind:

This piece is so reminiscent of the great Monk's work. Meredith Monk, that is.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:56pm Doug Schulkind:

I wish you many, many noncollapses, Parq.
Avatar 6:57pm ndbob:

excellent show Doug!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:57pm Doug Schulkind:

This is one of two different pieces commenting on the atrocity at Attica by Maestro Rzewski.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:58pm Parq:

Thanks, Doug. Yeah, this is very Monkish. It needs an accompanying dance piece, or maybe an aerialist presentation.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:59pm Doug Schulkind:

Aerialist = a realist ? !
  6:59pm doca:

Hey, @Doug, this has been a great show. Thanks for introducing me to Rzweski's work.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm Doug Schulkind:

Oh wow, doca, it makes me so happy to do so!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm Doug Schulkind:

I have barely scratched the surface with Rzewski here. I enthusiastically urge you all to explore more here: www.ubu.com...
  7:02pm doca:

Bookmarked already! I was intending to watch a movie, but couldn't turn off the radio (a thing I do often here on the FMU-land)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm Doug Schulkind:

Sorry about scuttling your movie plans, doca. (No I'm not!)
  10:54am George from Bristol UK:

Great photo of Fred Rz.
Avatar 10:55am George from Bristol UK:

Great photo of Fred Rz.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:57am Doug Schulkind:

Agreed! Agreed!
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