Bridge Music, Joseph Bertolozzi’s music installation celebrating the iconic Mid Hudson Bridge (and sister project to Tower Music at the Eiffel Tower in Paris) opens its 17th season April 1. Free and open to the public, this sound-art installation is located at each of the bridge’s towers, accessed from the Mid Hudson Bridge’s pedestrian sidewalks near 34 Gerald Dr., Poughkeepsie… Read more →
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CONTEMPLATION IN MESA
Last chance to hear Joseph Bertolozzi’s The Contemplation of Bravery on tour with the US Army Field Band. Master Sergeant JG Miller solos on horn at the Mesa Arts Center. Tix here. Can’t make it? Listen to the recording here on Spotify Read more →
SOLD OUT – “CONTEMPLATION” WITH THE US ARMY FIELD BAND
SOLD OUT!! The Tour continues Sat Feb 28 in La Mirada, CA. Hope you got your tix to hear “The Contemplation of Bravery” with the The United States Army Field Band. Master Sgt. JG Miller solos once again. THIS is how I honor my country. You can hear the commercial rcording on Spotify, Apple Music, etc. Read more →
Spring Tour-US Army Field Band with “Contemplation”
JG Miller plays my “Contemplation of Bravery” with the US Army Field Band, The Musical Ambassadors of the US Army, Friday Feb 20 on their spring tour. I am honored to represent my country this way. Originally written for the 200th anniversary of West Point – The U.S. Military Academy, and premiered by the West Point Band with Harry Ditzel… Read more →
GONGS: VOYAGE OF THE ANCIENTS #4 – RELENTLESS:TOWARD THE HORIZON
The Bronze Collection, Joseph Bertolozzi‘s solo percussion project for gongs, cymbals and drums is heard here in this live performance by the composer from The Howland Center in Beacon, NY, May 2004. “Relentless: Toward the Horizon” is the 4th movement from “Voyage of the Ancients,” a vibrant suite evocative of mythical times when heroic mariners sailed to the horizon and through… Read more →
THE CONTEMPLATION OF BRAVERY AT PENN STATE
JG Miller performs my “Contemplation of Bravery” at Penn State University, Jan 24 at 10am as part of The International Horn Society‘s Northeast Workshop with Jaime Lee Namminga accompanying on piano. Tix are free. For details go to https://northeasthornworkshop.weebly.com/ Originally composed for the West Point Band, this version will be the first public performance of my arrangement of it for… Read more →
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… Read more →
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… Read more →
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… Read more →
TOWER MUSIC & THE PARIS OLYMPICS – 8 of 11
“GLASS FLOOR RHYTHMS / RYTHMES SUR LE PLANCHER DE VERRE” (2:48) BOOST your Olympic experience this year with the ACTUAL SOUNDS of the Eiffel Tower. Some intrepidly approach the glass floors installed in 2014, others hesitate…each have their own rhythm. On YouTube, Spotify, or anywhere actually, you pick! Share it if you like it! #towermusic, #Bertolozzi, #Olympics Read more →