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Author: JellyJazz
Date: 2003-05-23 18:52
has anyone ever played a swing version of this?! i'm playing it in an orchestra and its great fun!
Jelly Jazz
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Author: Micaela
Date: 2003-05-24 00:14
A swing version? Sounds, um, interesting. There is a solo clarinet version that I've played through. It's very difficult and the fugue part, unsurprisingly, doesn't work very well. My teacher claims that it sounds "really cool" on bass clarinet, though. I admit to liking the Stokowski arrangement as well- I know it's all schmaltz and inauthentic but, darn it, it's effective. There's Vanessa-Mae (electric violinist)'s techno version as well.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2003-05-24 00:44
Ever since Wendy(Walter) Carlos, BWV 565 has never been the same for me...GBK
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Author: Sarah
Date: 2003-05-24 04:42
For my 20th Century Music History class I did a little oral report on synthesized music and played Wendy Carlos' version of this. It was...interesting, and a little frightening.
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Author: JellyJazz
Date: 2003-05-24 09:31
i can't say that i've heard of Wendy Carlos but by what you lot have been saying i think i should be very afraid!!!!Sarah wrote:
Jelly Jazz
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Author: BobD
Date: 2003-05-24 13:51
Walter's never been the same either......but I say this with much respect for this great artist and innovator. At the end of "Clockwork Orange" is a short piece that I've never found anywhere else.
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Author: Jim E.
Date: 2003-05-25 05:26
Nothing scary about the music of Walter/ Wendy Carlos. It was in 1968 that Walter Carlos released his recording of "Switched On Bach" . It sold an unpredented number of copies for a classical alblum. This consisted of a number of Bach favorites played by Carlos on the recently developed Moog synthesizer. Carlos followed with a sequel, "Switched On Bach II" as well as "The Well Tempered Synthizer" and others. Carlos also recorded some of the music for Clockwork Orange.
It was controversial at the time, and judging from the above comments, it still is. It certianally is not an authentic presentation of the works, but to my ear there is an awesome amount of musicality represented in these performances.
Walter Carlos reportedly had a sex change operation in the early 1970s. All of the more recent recordings and re-releases of the old ones now list Wendy Carlos as the performer. Wendy gives a diferent explanation of the name change on her somewhat eclectic but quite interesting web site.
http://www.wendycarlos.com/
Wendy is in the process of re-mastering the old recordings and releasing them on CD. Try to get a hold of some of this and listen to it with an open mind.
An aside, the Moog instrument featured on the cover of Switched On Bach, which was not the one Carlos used, is now in the possession of Drew University in Madison NJ. I did 2 years of grad work at Drew in the 70s, the Moog was donated to Drew sometime after that. Interesting in that Drew is not much of a music school, and does not offer a music major.
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Author: diz
Date: 2003-05-25 22:51
Sounds positively awful - I'm not a purist by any stretch of the imagination and would rather hear this wonder organ work played by a clarinet choir.
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Author: David
Date: 2003-05-25 23:07
I've played a concert band arrangement (by Ray Parr?) version that is not quite swing. The intro is completely straight, then suddenly it bangs into what one might term an "Ahem" kickass rockin' groove that holds right on to a massive finish.
I also have a CD of the Royal Marines Band playing it in what must be the 1970s with a set of those Simmons / Syndrums. Ahh... that takes me right back.
The ultimate encore piece.
David
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Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2003-05-27 02:36
Considering BWV 565 played by a swing band makes me imagine Rhapsody in Blue played on a really superb organ. In my view it didn't sound so great on a synthesizer manned (or womanned) by Carlos.
Regards,
John
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