{"id":9567,"date":"2018-05-17T21:50:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T04:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=9567"},"modified":"2018-05-17T22:05:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T05:05:49","slug":"preminger-and-garcia-play-chopin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/05\/preminger-and-garcia-play-chopin\/","title":{"rendered":"Preminger And Garcia Play Chopin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Noah Preminger, Rob Garcia<\/strong> <em>Dead Composers Club Chopin Project<\/em> (Connection Works Records)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/N-Preminger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"257\" \/>If I were going to be in New York City tomorrow evening\u00e2\u20ac\u201dalas, I<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9569\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/R-Garcia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"213\" \/> won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI would be at the Cornelia Street Caf\u00c3\u00a9 in Greenwich Village hoping that Preminger&#8217;s and Garcia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Chopin CD release concert would be as fascinating as the album itself. Preminger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tenor saxophone and Garcia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s drumming have support from guitarist Nate Radley and bassist Kim Cass in their interpretations of nine of Frederic Chopin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nocturnes and preludes and his formidable Etude No. 7 in C# Minor.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7UbzNiLRn7I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My guess is that Friedrich Gulda would have approved of Preminger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and Garcia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s adaptation. Gulda was, after all, respected for both his classical and jazz abilities. He and Joe Zawinul (later of Weather Report) were close friends beginning in their teen years in Vienna. Gulda was admired for his composing in both fields. For comparison with the Preminger-Garcia approach, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hear and see Gulda (1930-2000) play the piece as Chopin wrote it. This performance was in 1990 at the Philharmonie in Munich, Germany. You may wish to turn up your volume.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3wgXb_F84PU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Oddly, the Preminger-Garcia Chopin album seems to be not yet listed at Amazon, CD Baby or &#8221;\u00a0other usual online album sources. I hope that it soon will be.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/12\/monday-recommendation-premingers-meditations.html<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noah Preminger, Rob Garcia Dead Composers Club Chopin Project (Connection Works Records) If I were going to be in New York City tomorrow evening\u00e2\u20ac\u201dalas, I won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI would be at the Cornelia Street Caf\u00c3\u00a9 in Greenwich Village hoping that Preminger&#8217;s and Garcia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Chopin CD release concert would be as fascinating as the album itself. Preminger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9568,"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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}