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| Music Review: Kerwin Williamson Studio Phoenix Blogspot Peri Mauer DUTCHESS STARLIGHT REVISITED Composers Concordance Festival 2012 DROM, NYC January 29, 2012 Dutchess Starlight Revisited by Peri Mauer/cello, with Elliott Sharp/guitar and Art Baron/trombone, was a beautiful piece that exuded a sharp tenderness matched only by its near perfect arrangement. The combination of the three musicians brought out the joy and heartache of the composition, its notes reverberating in the air like ripples on the surface of a pond. Peri's playing was superb, her cello hummed with the gentle yet powerful vibration of her soul. http://studiophoenix.blogspot.com/2012/02/composers-concordance-festival-part_11.html  DUTCHESS STARLIGHT REVISITED Peri Mauer, composer and cellist Elliott Sharp. guitar Art Baron - trombone _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ MUSIC REVIEW (excerpt) NYTimes.com Standard Fare Upended, to Reinvent and Explore By STEVE SMITH Published: September 4, 2011  Moran Katz, clarinet, Peri Mauer, composer, Alexandra Joan, piano, after final performance of Peri Mauer's RHAPSODANCE at Bargemusic Labor Day Festival Sept. 1-4, 2011________________________________________________________________________________________ Music Review: Mark Greenfest, freelance contributor New Music Connoisseur Peri Mauer BLOGARHYTHM Music With a View 2011 April 5, 2011  Blogarhythm, composed and conducted by Peri Mauer, opened the Music With a View program, Mad Chatters, at the Flea Theater, Friday, April 1, 2011 at 7 pm. Curated by Kathleen Supove, the festival featured different themes - this piece was an entirely acoustic piece, commenting on the wired electronic age, and the composition, Blogarhythm, had its own ensemble, with 24 professional musicians, all volunteering, including contralto Christina Ascher, flutists Pamela Sklar, Hugh Williams, and Michael Laderman, clarinetist Gwen Appel, Ms. Supove as pianist, and other noted and talented performers, including five cellists.
The piece opened with an enormous wavelike crescendo, arching together the polyrthyms of multiple musical lines, in one energetic gesture - Ms. Mauer said that this was inspired by walking through the Times Square subway station at rush hour. The powerful opening was quite exhilarating and raucous, yet it was amazing how articulate it was, and the lines held together (much like a Mahler ending, except more so). This wave was repeated throughout the piece, in gentler and rhythmically appealing form; and, it alternated with lyrical solo and other passages that were lovely, and which showcased the fine musicianship of the individual performers.
The effect was both energetic and mesmerizing - the rhythmic 'blog' wave of the complex urban world in contrast to the beautiful voices of the individual instruments. The contralto, Ms. Ascher, had a verbal vocalise that mirrored the chat world of the modern internet and contrasted with the lyricism and the wave.
(Ms. Mauer's notes explain the piece and its origins in greater detail, and all 24 of the volunteering pros deserve kudos for a most memorable performance.)
This piece, like Terry Riley's In C, has potential to expand, because in between the vigorous and fun wave, there is such a wonderful and lovely exposition of the individual voices. I hope the musicians had as much fun as the audience had, and it looked like they did!
_________________________________________________________________________________________ Music Review: La Folia Online Music Review (excerpt) May 2010
Peri Mauer, composer, with clarinetists Ismail Lumanovski and Vasko Dukovski ~ La Folia Online Music Review May 2010
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