It is a glorious afternoon in Rome. The sun bathes the old buildings in a suffused light. Together with my brother I’m climbing a long, narrow marble staircase in an ancient palace. When we arrive at the top, an open door leads us into an elegant apartment overlooking the roofs of the city. There is a black upright piano by the French doors. Swallows dart across the blue sky. Igor Stravinsky is at the piano, waiting for us. We sit next to him and listen, while he tells us about the music he’s writing. Then he plays softly an unusual sequence of chords, thirds in both hands. I am overwhelmed by these sounds. He talks some more, his hands waving in the air. After a while we leave, and the beautiful, pungent harmony is forever etched in my mind.
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Tags
AGON
Azio Corghi
BCMG
beauty
Colombia
composition
contemporary music
creative process
David Purser
e e cummings
Enrica Colusso
Gyorgy Ligeti
Igor Stravinsky
Integra Live
Integra project
IRCAM
Jamie Bullock
Jonathan Green
Jonathan Harvey
Julian Anderson
Kogi
live electronics
Luca Francesconi
Luciano Berio
Luigi Nono
MaxMSP
music technology
narrator
Nicola Campogrande
opera
orchestra
piano
public
RAI
ritual
Rivka Golani
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Sebastian Schloessingk
soundtrack
sustainability
Tempo Reale
transcription
usability
viola
voice
Zbigniew Herbert
Beautiful, pungent harmony – a nice metaphor. I hope you have a chance to listen to our video ”South Kensington Part 2”, which can be found under the Videos section of our website. I look forward to meeting you in Birmingham when I start my course in less than a month!