December 2020 Virtual Concert Series
EARL HOWARD (New
York)
Sunday, December 6
The Program: Curtis 2019 -
Kurzweill 2600 synthesizer, Live performance - 46 minutes and The
Cold Hard Tooth 2020 - Alto- saxophone / composer and performer-Live
Performance 25 minutes; Notes about Curtis; It is often the case
that music is defined by the development of thematic elements which
tell a story; the sound of the music is a part of the elaboration of
a story, whether in atonal, linear or nonlinear music; Curtis has no
themes, but there are many stories; these are not statements in
themselves - they are components of their environments; sound does
not only sing or harmonize - it is the substance and location of
place, mass, and flow - for the sound elements, representing field
recordings from an imaginary world