{"id":12117,"date":"2014-03-01T11:06:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T16:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=12117"},"modified":"2014-03-01T11:14:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T16:14:12","slug":"music-for-organ-with-encore-for-two-bosendorfer-pianos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2014\/03\/music-for-organ-with-encore-for-two-bosendorfer-pianos.html","title":{"rendered":"Music for Organ, With Encore for Bosendorfer Pianos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_12140\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Puck-Charlemagne320usethis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12140\" data-attachment-id=\"12140\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2014\/03\/music-for-organ-with-encore-for-two-bosendorfer-pianos.html\/puck-charlemagne320usethis\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Puck-Charlemagne320usethis.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"320,357\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 5s&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1391293110&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.12&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Puck &amp;#038; Charlemagne Palestine\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Puck on the left, with Charlemagne Palestine&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Puck-Charlemagne320usethis-268x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Puck-Charlemagne320usethis.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Puck-Charlemagne320usethis.jpg\" alt title=\"Puck, on the left, with Charlemagne Palestine\" width=\"320\" height=\"357\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Puck-Charlemagne320usethis.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Puck-Charlemagne320usethis-268x300.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Puck, on the left, with Charlemagne Palestine<\/p><\/div> A friend of mine, Ben Schot, sent a photo he recently took of the Brooklyn-born minimalist composer and performance artist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charlemagne_Palestine\">Charlemagne Palestine<\/a> (born Chaim Moshe Tzadik Palestine, or Charles Martin) and his daughter Puck, a student at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kabk.nl\/index.php\">Royal Academy of Art, The Hague<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He used to live in Rotterdam for a couple of years in the &#8217;90s,&#8221; Ben wrote. &#8220;We met then and have been in touch since. He lives in Belgium now but performs in Holland every now and then. I wanted Puck to meet him, after having introduced her to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fpMGbyrXhro\">his work<\/a>. [&#8230;] It was great meeting him again. [&#8230;] I fell in love with Charlemagne\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mo7R4iFoGgg\">Island Song\u201d<\/a> (but maybe that\u2019s because I grew up on an island).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center>+ + +<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Ben also sent me a link to Palestine&#8217;s live performance, in 2010, of the complete \u201cSchlingen Bl\u00e4ngen.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><center>Charlemagne Palestine&#8217;s &#8220;Schlingen Bl\u00e4ngen&#8221;<\/center><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"44\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NQGKzmXiOd4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, Kyle Gann posted an item, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/postclassic\/2014\/02\/my-own-secret-drone-program.html\">My Own Secret Drone Program<\/a>, about a piece he wrote for organ. &#8220;As much as I love a lot of music that uses drones,&#8221; he wrote, &#8220;I had never come up with a good strategy for employing drones myself, and the organ\u2019s capacity for endless ones tempted me too far, so that I was in danger of trying to write a piece that was basically all one chord.&#8221; But a recent invitation changed his mind.<\/p>\n<p><center>Kyle Gann&#8217;s &#8220;Summer Serenade&#8221; (loud version)<\/center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kylegann.com\/SummerSerenade-ff.mp3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12128\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2014\/03\/music-for-organ-with-encore-for-two-bosendorfer-pianos.html\/organ-gann-480\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/organ-gann-480.png\" data-orig-size=\"480,44\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"&amp;#8216;Summer Serenade&amp;#8217; by Kyle Gann\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/organ-gann-480-300x27.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/organ-gann-480.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/organ-gann-480.png\" alt=\"&#039;Summer Serenade&#039; by Kyle Gann [loud version]\" width=\"480\" height=\"44\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/organ-gann-480.png 480w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/organ-gann-480-300x27.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And now for an encore, here is Palestine&#8217;s &#8220;Strumming Music&#8221; performed on two Bosendorfer pianos.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"44\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bulibjyaQ0s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine, Ben Schot, sent a photo he recently took of the Brooklyn-born minimalist composer and performance artist Charlemagne Palestine (born Chaim Moshe Tzadik Palestine, or Charles Martin) and his daughter Puck, a student at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. &#8220;He used to live in Rotterdam for a couple of years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Puck-Charlemagne320usethis.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-39r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}