McDonagh has collaborated with artists from different disciplines. Composers Lisa Scola Prosek www.scolavox.com and the late Gerhard Samuel. Pianist Ric Louchard. Director Zack successfully translated his poem for three speaking voices " touch and go " to the stage. Actors Sophie Holman premiered his "Sight Unseen -- a theatre piece for one performer "at New York's www.bowerypoetryclub.com, and Hermann Eppert and McDonagh did a film version in Berlin which can be seen on HERMPERT GOOGLE +. He has done tow limited edition books with painter www.garybukvnik.com . And he worked with 3 ace videographers -- Donovan Bauer, Peter Hibdon, and Jose Luis Garcia Nava -- on his first film ALEX NORTH VIVA ZAPATA! 2010 which he wrote and directed, and which premiered 3 May 2010 in Puebla, Mexico, with www.onixensamble.com playing live to it..
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Musical transcriptions have been around for millenia, even before the medieval, baroque, classical, romantic, modernist and postmodernist periods of the all hallowed western tradition which means both its European and its American incarnations. But do we ...
MusicNew York,
A WORD FROM THE AUTHOR: Please excuse the lateness of this piece but three versions of it that I wrote which were in "Draft " disappeared thrice so I had to re-write it thrice and re-think ...
Music
Much has been made of the stylistic freedom composers now enjoy. The Gordian knot of the 12-note system has been cut and few composers save those in the academy seem even tempted to write in the 12-note ...
MusicBerkeley,
The Philharmonia has been called one of the best orchestras in the world and its principal conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen may be one of our top living ones, so pairing a master work by the Russian Igor ...
MusicBerkeley,
Pianists and violinists are the prime donne of classical music so where does that leave Damascus, Syria-born clarinetist Kinan Azmeh who makes his instrument sing with his own breath? One doesn't think of clarinetists as ...
MusicSan Francisco,
Piano reductions of symphonies were a hard sell in the twentieth century and still are in our twenty-first century but that wasn't the case in the nineteenth century when reductions of symphonies ...
MusicSan Francisco,
We like to that think music is easy as pie. Composers hear it in their heads, write it down, have it played, and all the audience has to do is listen. ...
MusicBerkeley,
Politics is everywhere these days. Make one "false" step and you're tarred and feathered without getting even a nanosecond to defend yourself. Jordi Savall and company stepped into this corrosive environment like a breath of fresh air with their ...
MusicBerkeley,
What do we expect when we go to hear two repertory pieces played live, and is that expectation heightened when the musicians in Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra are Israeli and Arab? Do their complex histories and conflicting narratives affect ...
