BRIDGE MUSIC SEASON 14 BEGINS with NEW SPEAKERS

COMPOSER MASTERCLASS – AN EYE ILLUMINED BY ANOTHER SUN – BERTOLOZZI

Watch the Genesis, Structure and Performance Practice behind this epic work. Not just which mallets to use, but everything from their physical placement to why wearing long sleeve shirts & pants are recommended when performing it. Also covered are extended “flumie” techniques, muting, its general aesthetic, and very importantly for a non-pitched instrument, the reason and structure of phrase-repetitions contrasted with free interstitial sections. Link here [the file is too big for this website]:  https://www.youtube.com/watchv=KeVw5yACMhk&list=PLD0C9789E4FF261CA&index=7

It’s  a companion video to “AN EYE ILLUMINED BY ANOTHER SUN – LIVE IN PA” found at https://josephbertolozzi.com/an-eye-illumined-by-another-sun/

This masterclass took place at Mitch Nur’s 2023 9Way Academia and was filmed by Frederick Noiseux

The diminishing legacy of pipe organs in Beacon, NY

Here’s a  good article about the diminishing legacy of pipe organs in Beacon, NY as well as the few that are actively being maintained.

Joseph Bertolozzi at St. John the Evangelist Church, Beacon NY, September 2024

Photo of Joseph Bertolozzi by Brian Cronin for the Highlands Current.

Here are a couple informal demonstrations: Recessional from my “Suite for a Wedding” and (on the pedals) an excerpt of the hymn “Holy, Holy, Holy,” also shot by Brian Cronin:

TOWER MUSIC & THE PARIS OLYMPICS – 11 of 11

“TOWER MUSIC / MUSIQUE DE LA TOUR” (10:52)

COMPLETE your Olympic experience this year with the ACTUAL SOUNDS of the Eiffel Tower. Opening with dramatic sweep and launching into a series of concussive surges that draws one ever further in, a journey is begun. Vigorous and muscular themes emerge trading blows with the underpinning rhythms. The listener is then delivered to a slow central section where a melody is played and then only suggested by cymbal-like hisses (actually fences and panels). When the earlier energetic material returns it’s as an introduction to an even faster section but interspersed with canonic cat-and mouse chases. A huge climax brings the entire opus and a ten-year-long project to a close.

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TOWER MUSIC & THE PARIS OLYMPICS – 9 of 11

“EVENING HARMONIES / HARMONIES DU SOIR” (4:46)

HEIGHTEN your Olympic experience this year with the ACTUAL SOUNDS of the Eiffel Tower. This work, spread over a dark canvas, is a deeply introspective exploration of the Eiffel Tower’s sounds by themselves, unshackled by any rhythmic or melodic imperative. Where most of the rest of Tower Music springs from existing percussive traditions and instruments, this one designs its own idiom. Upon its ending, it completely clears the palate for the tension that is about to explode with the final movement.

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