Composer Joseph Bertolozzi has received permission from the Eiffel Tower administration to pursue his “Tower Music” project. With microphones placed on the tower’s surfaces, he will compose and record original music using only the natural sounds of the Eiffel Tower itself. Further plans call for a series of live concerts during the Tower’s 125th anniversary in 2014. This project is… Read more →
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Considering Eiffel Tower Music
The whole idea for Tower Music began in 2004 when my wife, mimicking the way I play my percussion project The Bronze Collection, took a swing at a poster of the Eiffel Tower as if she was playing one of my gongs. Of course! Everything vibrates! Why not the Eiffel Tower? All one would have to do is locate where… Read more →
Bridge Music’s 3rd season
Joseph Bertolozzi’s Bridge Music Listening Stations were re-installed for their 3rd season. They remain in place at the towers of New York’s Mid Hudson Bridge from April 1 thru Oct 31. The Park Radios play year round on 95.3 FM within the parks that flank the bridge, namely Waryas Park in Poughkeepsie, NY and Johnson-Iorio Park in Highland, NY. While… Read more →
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS AND MUSIC FOR “ECCENTRICITIES”
For the 100th anniversary of the birth of Tennessee Williams this year, here’s the concert suite adapted from my score to his play “The Eccentricities of a Nightingale.” The music (still available for revivals) marked the first professional public performance of my music. The link also offers the reviews and program notes. Read more →
PREMIERE OF TRANCES & VISIONS
French hornist David Lesser premieres Joseph Bertolozzi’s “Trances & Visions” in concerts with the Camerata Winds Saturday, March 5 at Grace Presbyterian Village, Dallas Texas and Sunday March 6 at Zion Lutheran Church, Dallas Texas. He is accompanied by David J. Korevaar on piano. The music’s dark tone suggests the utterances of a seer deep in meditation, a voice emanating… Read more →
Bertolozzi visits Notre Dame de Paris
I was going to be in Paris on Sunday, November 7, so I wrote to both Notre Dame Cathedral and titular organist Olivier Latry’s management company and asked permission to go up to the loft during Mass. I received word back from management that there are 4 titular organists who rotate duties [one from each of the 4 districts in… Read more →
BRIDGE MUSIC AT THE MID HUDSON CHILDREN’S MUSEUM
For the second year in a row the Mid Hudson Children’s Museum has become the winter location of Bridge Music. One of the installation’s Listening Stations is now available for museum-goers to hear. Museum Director Ed Glisson: “Children and parents are always intrigued with the idea of making music from the bridge steelwork. But, they recognize the concept first-hand as… Read more →
BERTOLOZZI & THE POUGHKEEPSIE BOYS CHOIR
I recently found these pictures from my year with the Poughkeepsie Boys Choir. We sang at many locations, including schools, the Mid Hudson Civic Center, the Poughkeepsie Galleria, the Grand Hotel, the Catharine St. Community Center (where we were based) several churches, and even a firehouse as a thank you to the fire fighters who responded to a fire at… Read more →
NY Times references Bertolozzi with Cowell, Harrison & Magnus Lindberg
Here’s an article referencing my musical work in today’s New York Times. The story follows the preparation of a performance of Magnus Lindberg’s work “Kraft.” Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison and myself are listed as composers working in the tradition that draws relationships between percussion and non-traditional instruments. About halfway through the story, reporter Dan Wakin writes “…the use of found… Read more →
Bridge Music Lecture at NYC Barnes & Noble
In conjunction with the Innova release of the anthology The NYFA Collection, 25 years of New York New Music [innova 233], I’ll be delivering a short lecture/demonstration of my processes in developing and composing music for a suspension bridge on Thursday, September 30, at 7:00pm at the Barnes & Noble store on 150 East 86th Street (at Lexington Ave) New… Read more →