Kentner Anderson News
Simple Composition, performed by brilliant guitarsts Daniel Conant & Kyle Miller, will be released on New Focus with works by Ben Boretz, Kentner Anderson, Kyle Miller -- three composers, each about 30 years apart in age.
I'm pivoting away from meine Gezupfteweltanschauung.
10 or 15 years ago, Robert Pollock, Director of Ebb & Flow Arts, of Maui, together with Shinhee Park, of Veritas Musicae, of Seoul, got me involved in a project to compose for VM's extraordinary musicians in Seoul, performing at Ilshin Hall. No guitars.
I contributed a clarinet trio, a piano trio, and a quartet for cl, vln, and other works. They began modestly and developed for many, many years, making great leaps forward. I'm now working on getting the revised versions performed.
I am working on a glossary of compositional terms to keep some indispensable music compositional principles alive, after noticing that with all the great new things that music is doing, some other powerful things are forgotten. The glossary also touches upon the aftermath of the Rockwell Coup, which, I argue, blurs what was once a hard boundary at 1918, gradually dissolving modernist taboos against crossing that line and connecting with Brahms the progressive. Instead of standing where Boulez stood, critical of Schoenberg and enforcing "Webern or nothing!", I stand where Schoenberg stood, inspired by Brahms the progressive. I stand there without the bridge-burning that Schoenberg needed to do for so many reasons.
Through various collaborations with the Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music, I'm trying to cultivate a healthy diversity of new music in Greenwich Village, Paris, Berlin, Seoul, Salzburg, and Passau.
The Village Trip
Berlin Academy of American Music (BAAM)
Summer Music Aldersbach
Center for the Liberation of Sound and Image (CLSI)
Veritas Musicae
Ekmelic Society of Salzburg
More about these new works on the BLOG.
"...William Anderson’s skills are both mesmerizing and inspiring..."
-- Take Effect
"...the alert guitarist..."
-- NY Times
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From the New Focus Website
Guitarist/composer William Kentner Anderson releases a collection of works ... music is not like anything else, often engaging with simple musical materials-pop songs, folksongs and folk lyrics. He breaks barriers-asking his guitarists to sing backup vocals, incorporating Tibetan overtone singing in his setting of Djuna Barnes' "Paradise", integrating an uillean piper into the Cygnus Ensemble.
Works by Mario Davidovsky, Emil Awad, Jeffrey Nichols, Jose Saldaña, William Anderson, Robert Pollock
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lKSby8N9G-qaPqwSGh7Uz8G_GbAbQvDK0
Matthew Greenbaum is the only composer in New York to be a mentee of both Stefan Wolpe and Mario Davidovsky. Wolpe was one of the many great minds who were forced to our shores by historical circumstances, and arriving here, found that there was interest in what they had to offer. Stravinsky, Hindemith, Krenek, Schoenberg, as well as Stefan Wolpe all tried to put down roots in the Western Hemisphere, with varied success. Or, perhaps it’s more fair to say that their influence is paying off very slowly over a long period of time.
This is Anderson's first solo album.
