Heard this tonight in car as I was flicking through stations. I'd just come out of someones house doing a women's circle, my first time. So this relaxing music was lerfect for after...I thiught i was a bell or bowl lol

“Eastman’s stated aim with Femenine was to please listeners, saying of the piece that ‘the end sounds like the angels opening up heaven . . . should we say euphoria?’” -Mary Jane Leach

This is one of the greatest compositions of the 20th century. And the 21st for that matter.

glorious. I've watched this many times over the past months and I've kind of become obsessed with it. One of the greatest works from that period in late 20th century American music. I saw Julius with Meredith Monk several times but in that era I never realized he was such a great composer. I'm so grateful to these stellar musicians for making the music available on KZread. Thank You!!!

Beautiful yes, recalling hot nights and thousands of cicadas chirruping.

Stay on it and it gets better!

ipnotico, travolgente, mille colori insieme, musica celestiale, immensa!!

Beautiful

Superb piece, wonderfully well performed. Great post. Thank you.

heck yeah this is beautiful

this is music for our souls

@vivianbobka5239

Жыл бұрын

i love Minimalism in art and music. these strikes me as post minimalism, an early seventies moment

Amazing.

I was there! Thanks so much for posting.

My introduction to Eastman was his rendering of Maxwell Davies "Eight Songs for a Mad King": he truly set the standard for that work. Then his work with Meredith Monk. I would have loved this back then (and now). So regretful we can't hear how his music would have evolved with time. Thanks for posting. Though not really minimalism, MC Maguire has a really interesting work in progress posted here on YT that might be interesting to folk who like this.

killer performance

Stunning

This is so beautiful, thank you for sharing!

What a treat and even better now I have so much more to discover. Thank you

Just the right freqnecy, always good to hear this one gain and again

Excellent.

wow, really beautiful! a good companion to steve reich's music for eighteen musicians.

Great piece and performance

At 52:30, the pianist starts playing the Irish folk song Slane, known in many hymnals as "Be Thou my vision" or "Lord of all hopefulness". Not sure what the meaning is, but fits the pentatonic scales used in this section well. Overall, this is one of the best performances I've heard. I'd have loved to hear it live.

@bluetv6386

3 жыл бұрын

It is the moment when he thought "Fuck it!! I need a TUNE!!!"

@philnovack-gottshall5138

3 жыл бұрын

@@bluetv6386 Not an expert on Eastman's notation, but the score (e.g. issuu.com/scoresondemand/docs/femenine_57875 ) only provides a general outline of the work. Nearly all of what's played is improvised by the players. So I'm pretty sure the pianist is the one who decided to play the hymn. (The score at 55:50 does seem to encourage a "melody" around this moment in "key" of E-flat6, but there's no melody notated.)

@bluetv6386

3 жыл бұрын

@@philnovack-gottshall5138 thanks for the link Phil. My post was meant as a (poor, no doubt to some) joke but reading the score it seems I may unwittingly have had a point. Jury still out on this one for me. Thanks again.

@robbyr9286

3 жыл бұрын

@@philnovack-gottshall5138 Thanks for the resource!

@nicorion-m9j

2 жыл бұрын

@@philnovack-gottshall5138 ive heard people break into that in every performance ive heard of this piece

i think this is really good

I remember Julius when he played in and conducted the Brooklyn Philharmonia's CETA Orchestra, as part of the Cultural Council Foundation Artists Project, which was funded through the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.

@mikechilds4085

3 жыл бұрын

Did you get to meet with him?

@virginiamaksymowicz9325

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikechilds4085 I only met him in passing at concerts or on payday. However, my husband was on the CCF documentation team and he met Julius, and photographed him.

@christophermcintyre8814

2 жыл бұрын

O how the NYC musician community would benefit from a new CETA program!

the slow pans across the stage so smooth the whole piece could be composed of these though that might be hard to cut

Somehow failed to come across this for way too many years. A rival to Music for 18 Musicians as my favorite 20th century composition.

Great piece, this composer must be put again in music history!

This is proper minimalism.

THE APPLAUDS AT THE END STARTLED THE LIVING BEBUS OUTTA ME BUt otherwise well done

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0:42 10:10

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Sedative,really really awful.

@mobith

3 ай бұрын

lol

Amazing performance and piece but also the guy playing vibraphone 😳

@doggydog_superpuppyboy

10 ай бұрын

And the guy playing cello😋