{"id":1869,"date":"2011-06-07T16:13:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T20:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2011-06-14T11:38:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T15:38:55","slug":"joshua-feinbergs-contrafactual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/2011\/06\/07\/joshua-feinbergs-contrafactual\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Feinberg&#8217;s Contrafactual: hommage \u00e1 Scelsi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment1876\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment1876\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1876 \" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/files\/2011\/06\/scelsi.jpg\" alt=\"Giacinto Scelsi \" width=\"230\" height=\"279\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment1876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1982)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was pleased to see a good crowd on hand at a concert in the CFA Concert Hall this past Sunday night, which was the culminating event of the <strong>Callithumpian Consort Sprectral Summer Workshop. <\/strong>I fully support this kind of initiative.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A commissioned piece composed by our own Joshua Feinberg was performed: <em>Counterfactual:\u00a0 hommage \u00e1 Scelsi<\/em>.\u00a0 &#8220;The piece&#8230;takes the central gesture of Scelsi&#8217;s trio Okanagon and reimagines a new sound-world out of that gesture, creating a completely new work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Scelsi:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.classical.net\/music\/comp.lst\/acc\/scelsi.php\">Giacinto Scelsi was born on January 8<sup>th<\/sup>, 1905 to an  aristocratic family living on an old estate in the country surrounding  Naples in southern Italy. Though he had little formal musical training,  he is now recognized as one of the most creative composers of our  century.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.classical.net\/music\/comp.lst\/acc\/scelsi.php\">Scelsi&#8217;s mature music is marked by a supreme concentration on  single notes, combined with a masterly sense of form. Scelsi  revolutionized the role of sound in western music \u2013 his best known work  is the Quattro Pezzi per Orchestra,  each on a single note. These single notes are elaborated through  microtonal shadings, harmonic allusions, and variations in timbre and  dynamics. It is impossible to express the immense power of this  apparently simple music in words.<\/a> &#8211;www.classicalnet.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was pleased to see a good crowd on hand at a concert in the CFA Concert Hall this past Sunday night, which was the culminating event of the Callithumpian Consort Sprectral Summer Workshop. I fully support this kind of initiative. A commissioned piece composed by our own Joshua Feinberg was performed: Counterfactual:\u00a0 hommage \u00e1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1872,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}