For Morton Feldman (2017), by Thomas Oboe Lee

For Morton Feldman (2017)

by Thomas Oboe Lee

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While browsing Amazon I stumbled upon a number of CD recordings of Morton Feldman’s 60-minute-plus work for solo piano, “For Bunita Marcus.” So I decided to give the music a listen. The experience of listening to the music was quite a revelation.

Confession: I have been for decades an admirer of Feldman’s “minimalist” music - the spare, lingering, and gorgeous sonorities.

I had just finished a Horn Trio for Irina Muresanu and was not yet ready to embark on a song cycle with text by the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello. So I said to myself why not write a “morton feldman-like" solo piano piece, just for the hell of it?

So, I said to myself, why not? Then I thought the idea of using “chance” in the style of John Cage would be appropriate to a Morton Feldman piece. In my case, I used a deck of cards.

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released January 31, 2018

For Morton Feldan (2017) can be divided in four segments.

Segment I @ 0:00
Segment 2 @ 9:48
Segment 3 @ 14:54
Segment 4 @ 17:32

Jenny Lin, piano

Music by Thomas Oboe Lee

Recorded in the Fraser Studio @ WGBH
December 14, 2017

Antonio Oliart, audio engineer and editor

© Departed Feathers Music, Inc. - BMI - 2017

Photo credit: Thomas Oboe Lee

YouTube link: youtu.be/vCGAIBz2SMY

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Thomas Oboe Lee Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thomas Oboe Lee was born in China in 1945. He lived in São Paulo, Brazil, for six years before coming to the United States in 1966. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, he studied composition at the New England Conservatory and Harvard University. He has been a member of the music faculty at Boston College since 1990. ... more

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