Manafonistas

DER NORDEN
 

Edvard Grieg – Slåtter op.72 (Knut Buen, Hardingfele / Einar Steen-Nøkleberg, Piano)
Ingfrid Breie Nyhus – Slåttepiano
Knut Hamre / Steve Tibbetts – Å
Nils Økland Band – Lysning
Erlend Apneseth Trio – Åra
Agnes Buen Garnås / Jan Garbarek – Rosensfole
 
 

JAPANESE AND OTHER JEWELS
 

Midori Takada – Through The Looking Glass
MKWAJU ensemble – KI-Motion
MKWAJU ensemble – MKWAJU
Joey Baron / Robyn Schulkowski – Now You Hear Me
Erik Griswold – Yokohama Flowers
 
 

DIGITAL CONCERT HALLS
 

Ricardo Descalzo – contemporary piano video library
Ju-Ping Song – music in motion
 
 

ECM CORNER
 

Shai Maestro – The Dream Thief
Steve Tibbetts – Life Of
Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin – Awase
Trio Mediaeval / Arve Henriksen – Rimur
Keith Jarrett – Solo Concerts Bremen/Lausanne
 
 

PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, MANFRED HONECK
 

Ludwig van Beethoven – Sinfonie No.3 „Eroica“, Op. 55
Antonin Dvořák – Sinfonie No. 8, Op. 88
 
 

AARON PARKS
 

Little Big
 
 

continued and richly supplemented in the following comment

„To fully understand poetry (…) ask two questions. One: How artfully has the objective of the poem been rendered? And, two, how important is that objective? Question one rates the poem´s perfection. Question two rates its importance. And once these questions have been answered determining a poem´s greatness becomes a relatively simple matter. If the poem´s score for perfection is plottet on the horizontal of a graph and its importance is plottet on the vertical, then calculating the total area of the poem yields the measure of its greatness. A sonnet by Byron might score high on the vertical, but only average on the horizontal. A Shakespearean sonnet, on the other hand would score high both horizontally and vertically yielding a massive total area thereby revealing the poem to be truly great.“

This is the beginning of the preface of a textbook by Dr. J. Evans Pritchard, Ph.D. In Dead Poets Society the new English teacher John Keating assigns the boys at the boarding school to rip out the entire page. He develops his own method of getting the pupils to write poems themselves. This is one of the central scenes. Let it fill your soul.