Hi friends, You may remember in 2022 I worked with the Vanaver Caravan to bring the Bridge Music Dance Project to life in a live performance and then on the silver screen. Well now I’m in development with the Vanaver Caravan once again to present the Tower Music Dance Project (or “le projet dansant Musique de la Tour“) in Paris… Read more →
Author: Joseph Bertolozzi
Celebrate my 65th birthday on Classical WMHT
Celebrate my 65th birthday on Classical WMHT as they air my “Suite Poughkeepsie” this Sunday Feb 4 at 11:40am ET. Listen at 89.1 FM in New York’s Capital Region and 88.7 FM in Poughkeepsie, NY. It can also be heard live on the internet on https://www.wmht.org/player/ This tribute to my hometown was premiered by the Hudson Valley Philharmonic in 1999… Read more →
20 years on…
20 years apart: composer Joseph Bertolozzi with Chief Engineer (retired) Bill Moreau of the New York State Bridge Authority. Without his approval & oversight there would’ve been no Bridge Music and subsequently no Tower Music, its sister project in Paris. It all began here #bridgemusic #towermusic Read more →
BUSY WEEK IN MIDDLETOWN & POUGHKEEPSIE
Big weekend coming up! ON SATURDAY 11/18 at 2pm come to my multimedia presentation on Bridge Music and Tower Music at the Thrall Library, 11 Depot Street, Middletown, NY 10940. Admission is free. Journey onto the Eiffel Tower and New York’s Mid Hudson Bridge as I explain the process of recording and creating my two Top-Twenty Billboard charting albums from these monuments. Q&A to follow. At the end the audience… Read more →
Harmonious World podcast on Tower Music
My latest interview about #TowerMusic from Harmonious World coming from merry old England! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-discussion-of-tower-music-with/id1514804118?i=1000631776925 Read more →
Today on NPR’s Tones & Drones podcast with Jason Miller
Today at 1pm ET/noon CT, I’ll be on NPR’s Tones & Drones podcast with Jason Miller from the the studios of 91.3 FM KVLU Public Radio (www.kvlu.org) hear it on Spotify, Apple, Google, iHeart, NPROne and others. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tonesanddrones/episodes/Tones–Drones-w-Joseph-Bertolozzi-e2a5tes Read more →
Tower Music Dance Project takes a step forward
Here are Livia Vanaver and I at the French Embassy, taking the next steps toward bringing the Tower Music Dance Project to fruition. The plan is to convene the The Vanaver Caravan and percussive dancer extraordinaire Joel Hanna with several French dance companies & choreographers to present Tower Music in Paris as a public dance event much like last year’s… Read more →
“…an eye illumined by another sun…”
Featured artist Joseph Bertolozzi performs “…an eye illumined by another sun…” on the solo gong at the 9ways Academia Gong Conference in Perkasie, PA, July 10, 2023. Program Notes “…an eye illumined by another sun…” takes its formal structure from biblical Hebrew poetry using thought-based parallelism, primarily synthetic: a rhythmic and or timbral premise is proposed, and a variation of… Read more →
Solo Gong performance & discussion
Joseph Bertolozzi presents his work for solo gong: “…an eye illumined by another sun…” at the 9Ways Academia in Perkasie, PA., on July 10, 2023, performing and discussing his composition & techniques for the solo gong. All spots are sold out. #gong #bronze collection #bertolozzi #mitchnur Read more →
Bridge Music & Joseph Bertolozzi win Chronogrammies!
Joseph Bertolozzi was recognized twice in Chronogram magazine with two 2023 Readers’ Choice Awards, known as Chronogrammies. The first category was for Public Art for the “Bridge Music” sound art installation in Poughkeepsie, now in its 14th season, and also for Local Band/Musician. #bridgemusic Read more →