I found the David Banks "Problem of Excess Genius" article - the key is that it was 'really called' "Clusters of Talent". #scenius
https://web.archive.org/web/20041221200029/http://www.pitt.edu/~csna/news/csna.news48.html

If you’ve done any reading about your favorite artist, you will have noticed a peculiar thing: all the cool kids seemed to know each other. #scenius (p. 101) #Audience

If you’ve done any reading about your favorite artist, you will have noticed a peculiar thing: all the cool kids seemed to know each other. #scenius (p. 101) #Audience

If you’ve done any reading about your favorite artist, you will have noticed a peculiar thing: all the cool kids seemed to know each other. #scenius (p. 101) #Audience

If you’ve done any reading about your favorite artist, you will have noticed a peculiar thing: all the cool kids seemed to know each other. #scenius (p. 101) #Audience

If you’ve done any reading about your favorite artist, you will have noticed a peculiar thing: all the cool kids seemed to know each other. #scenius (p. 101) #Audience

If you’ve done any reading about your favorite artist, you will have noticed a peculiar thing: all the cool kids seemed to know each other. #scenius (p. 101) #Audience

#NowListening

“From the New World”

Dvorák Symphony No. 9

Such incredible top notch director working with an student orchestra all the augmentation and diminution difficulties of this symphony into a masterful #scenius performance

Marin Alsop with
Peabody Symphony Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFRwTpRL3R4

0:00 I Adagio
8:50 II Largo
19:30 III Scherzo: Molto vivace
26:50 IV Finale: Allegro con fuoco

#ClassicalMusic #Dvorak #MarinAlsop #pso

#timbre #texture #tone string & wind #Scenius exchanges

Iván Fischer w/ Concertgebouworkest
#Beethoven 7

https://youtu.be/-4788Tmz9Zo

w/ Fischer commentary

https://www.concertgebouworkest.nl/nl/video/beethoven-symfonie-nr-7-1

14:44 2nd Allegretto

»Masterwork of simplicity
..
One of most beautiful tones B has ever written«

34:07 4th Allegro con brio

»I call it XIX century rock music
..
I think the whole rock generation can give it now, what they will invent after this?
..
If this music doesn't get you up from your seat, then nothing will«

#NowListening

Powerful and up to the speed rendition –within 35min: Beethoven — Symphony No. 5

Iván Fischer with
Concertgebouworkest

https://youtu.be/a9UApyClFKA

Same version with Iván Fischer commentary

» This is probably the most well known start of a symphony, the four notes that everybody knows...«

https://platform.vixyvideo.com/index.php/extwidget/preview/partner_id/344/uiconf_id/23451465/entry_id/0_54atvloo/embed/dynamic

#ClassicalMusic #Beethoven #Scenius #musicality

#NowListening

#Scenius altogether progression of #timbre #texture and #tone
Unique and singular version of Maurice Ravel — Bolero:

Alondra de la Parra with
WDR Symphony Orchestra

https://youtu.be/cmNEvSFWftc

#ravel #ClassicalMusic #orchestra #musicality

Reznor & Ross have the same kind of dynamic weight in modern #film #soundtracks as Cave & Ellis. I think of it as a new breed, or new #scenius

https://composer.spitfireaudio.com/en/articles/trent-reznor-and-atticus-ross-on-emotively-scoring-bones-and-all?__s=p3rmj7ipgqdkm5yst2o6&utm_source=drip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Trent+Reznor+%26+Atticus+Ross+on+%27Bones+and+All%27&utm_content=Composer+Magazine+Third+Anniversary+Cover+

#composer

Some Saturday blogging about #scenius, small groups, peer support and ambitions (delusions?) of improving the world http://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/archives/thinking/small_groups_and_the_does_liverpool_salon.html