Yes, 'Spillane' and 'Godard' were performed live onstage in their entirety
during the September 1993 Zorn 40th birthday month at the old Knit. The
pieces came off without a hitch, with the exception of one moment in which a
sampler (I forget if it was David Weinstein's or David Shea's) failed to
function. The music came to a brief complete halt, during which Zorn
pointed at the offender and encouraged the audience to applaud.
Steve Smith
ssmith36@sprynet.com
(who also saw Naked City - twice - Pain Killer, News for Lulu with Curtis
Fowlkes subbing for George Lewis who forgot to show up, and the Sonny Clark
Memorial Quartet during that wild month...)
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From: Steve Smith <ssmith36@sprynet.com>
> things live. Same goes for hearing 'Spillane' and 'Godard' live - the
> pieces were played virtually note-for-note, but damn was it astonishing to
> hear them play those pieces.
You mean that those pieces were played live?!
Marcin Gokieli
marcin.gokieli@mospan.pl marcingokieli@go2.pl
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are working on, tell him to go climb a tree - Jerry Fodor
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 09:38:21 -0500
From: Stephen Drury <stevedrury@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: dead ringer
At 12:40 AM 3/24/01 -0700, David wrote:
>I recently attended a marvelous piano recital by Mia Chung, at Merkin Hall in
>New York City. She included a very short piano piece by John Zorn entitled
>"Dead Ringer." ...
>On another subject, is there a published score for "Sebastopol?"
oddly enough, the 2 are closely related. around about 1990 i asked zorn if
he had any music for piano, and he pulled out the early game piece
Sebastopol, for 3 trios: jazz, noise/rock, and classical (harp, oboe,
piano). one feature of the piece is a group of "ringers" - written out
fragments for the instruments, including one 2-minute ringer for piano solo.
the name "Dead Ringer" came a little later (think Jeremy Irons and
Cronenberg). i started programming it just before Carny for solo piano was
written. it's been recorded under the title "XIV" by Tomoko Mukaiyama on a
dutch label (BHVaast?)
- --steve
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