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	Frederic Rzewski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frederic Anthony Rzewski (born April 13, 1938) is an American composer and virtuoso pianist.
		In 1977 Rzewski became Professor of Composition at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique in Liège, Belgium.
		Most of Rzewski's works are overtly political (see: music and politics) and feature improvisational elements.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frederic_Rzewski (464 words)

	DRAM - View Note for Frederic Rzewski - Database of Recorded American Music
		Carol Plantamura and Frederic Rzewski met in 1965 when they were both at the Center for the Creative and Performing Arts at the State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo.
		In setting this text Rzewski made a political statement that was particularly meaningful for the turbulant period of the late 1960s and that remains pertinent for all times.
		Rzewski's early friendships with Christian Wolff and David Behrman, and (through Wolff) his acquaintance with John Cage and David Tudor strongly influenced his development in both composition and performance.
	dram.nyu.edu /dram/note.cgi?id=8676 (2303 words)

	Guardian \| Frederic Rzewski: Piano Works, 1975-1999
		Frederic Rzewski, born in Massachusetts in 1938, is a fascinating, unclassifiable figure.
		Rzewski was always a formidable pianist, as well as a composer, and gave the first performance of Stockhausen's monumental Tenth Piano Piece in 1962, but his musical sympathies have never been doctrinaire.
		It shows Rzewski's fondness for building large-scale compositions out of a mosaic of smaller pieces, whether they are sets of variations as in The People United.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4536303-110760,00.html (597 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Composer Rzewski Performs Three Personal, Searching Pieces
		Rzewski performed three piano pieces he has written in the last two years, demonstrating both a rich creative arsenal and uncompromising keyboard virtuosity.
		Rzewski accompanied one passage by slapping himself and drumming his fingers on the closed piano lid, another (about the imperfections of governments) with the squeaking of a toy horn.
		Frederic Rzewski has one of the most uninhibitedly creative musical minds around, and he is a spectacular pianist.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=222620 (835 words)

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		Rzewski has not given evidence of such a strength of personality, and so his extreme stylistic diversity might be interpreted as a lack of compositional sureness, a failure of confidence in any of his chosen idioms.
		Neither he nor Rzewski nor Christian Wolff has, to my knowledge, made much of an impact on the working classes, or on the third-world masses, or on China, or whomever it is they are ostensibly celebrating in their music.
		Rzewski's political convictions indicate a strong moral sense, and he has great musical talent, too - one reason he is so stylistically restless may be his too easy mastery of everything he attempts.
	www.muw.edu /frc/dilemma.htm (3615 words)

	Encyclopedia: Frederic Rzewski
		Composer Alvin Curran (born 13 December 1938 in Providence, Rhode Island) is the co-founder, with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, of Musica Elettronica Viva, and a former student of Elliott Carter.
		Sospeso presents the world premiere of the celebrated American composer and pianist Frederic Rzewski's homage to Elliott Carter, Ninety-Six, a work written for Sospeso, on Friday, January 30, 2004.
		Rzewski studied with Randall Thompson (counterpoint) and Walter Piston (orchestration) at Harvard University (BA 1958) and with Roger Sessions and Milton Babbitt at Princeton University (MFA 1960), where he also attended courses in philosophy and Greek.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Frederic-Rzewski (1088 words)

	Rzewski blazes a unique piano path - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Living / Arts - News
		Frederic Rzewski is one of the major figures writing for piano in our time, and securing him as composer-in-residence was a major coup for New England Conservatory's annual Summer Institute for Contemporary Piano Performance.
		Rzewski began with Beethoven's music, really moving it along, and with sharp rhythmic edges softened occasionally by ornaments in baroque style.
		Rzewski has progenitors -- Ives, Ruggles, John Cage -- but like them, he is an original, an American maverick, whose way of looking at the world makes us see it differently too.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2005/06/22/rzewski_blazes_a_unique_piano_path (532 words)

	Guardian \| Frederic Rzewski
		Frederic Rzewski is one of the more singular figures of American contemporary music.
		Rzewski's performance encompassed furious virtuosity with passages in which he whistled a haunting melody over a stark, denuded accompaniment.
		It began and ended with ghostly knocking sounds, as Rzewski slapped, tapped, and stroked the outside of the instrument, and these mysterious passages framed music of lyrical and obsessive intensity.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4799444-110430,00.html (318 words)

	Frederic Rzewski
		Frederic Rzewski (born Westfield, Massachusetts, 1938) studied music first with Charles Mackey of Springfield, and subsequently with Walter Piston, Roger Sessions, and Milton Babbitt at Harvard and Princeton Universities.
		He went to Italy in 1960, where he studied with Luigi Dallapiccola and met Severino Gazzelloni, with whom he performed in a number of concerts, thus beginning a career as a performer of new piano music.
		The experience of MEV can be felt in Frederic Rzewski's compositions of the late sixties and early seventies, which combine elements derived equally from the worlds of written and improvised music.
	www.otherminds.org /shtml/Rzewski.shtml (305 words)

	Cantaloupe Music: Child (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Written for a virtuosic pianist who also sings, shouts, and declaims, Rzewski's masterpiece is given a gripping re-interpretation by the fiery Moore, who brings a new character to the work through her passionate piano performance and compelling voice.
		Rzewski's 'De Profundis' (1992) for speaking pianist could be described as a melodramatic oratorio in which eight sections are preceded by eight instrumental preludes.
		Rzewski's largest-scale work to date is The Triumph of Death (1987-8), a two-hour oratorio based on texts adapted from Peter Weiss's 1995 play Die Ermittlung (The Investigation).
	www.cantaloupemusic.com /CA21014.html (1198 words)

	Frederic Rzewski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Born in Westfield, Massachusetts in 1938, Frederic Rzewski studied with Walter Piston, Roger Sessions and Milton Babbitt at Harvard and Princeton Universities.
		The experience of MEV can be felt in Rzewski's compositions of the late sixties and early seventies, which combine elements derived equally from the worlds of written and improvised music (Les Moutons de Panurge, Coming Together).
		Rzewski's largest-scale work to date is The Triumph of Death (1987-8), a two-hour oratorio.
	www.ccm.uc.edu /MusicX/Bios/rzewski.html (322 words)

	Frederic Rzewski : The People United Will Never Be Defeated (1987) (HatArt) - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		As of 2002, Rzewski's masterpiece, The People United Will Never Be Defeated, had been recorded at least four times, but this release, with the composer himself at the piano, surpasses all others.
		Rzewski took the Chilean work song "El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!" as his starting point (a very lovely one) and wrote 36 variations webbed together in a complex formula of exposition and reiteration that, in the course of about an hour, traverses an enormous amount of territory and unearths tremendous richness, depth, and beauty.
		The sheer scope of the music is astounding, not to mention the arcane reiterative structure utilized by Rzewski wherein each of the 36 variations is recapitulated every sixth one and each of those recapitulations are themselves integrated into a final summing up.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,197647,00.html (480 words)

	Rzewski is given his due / Composer's unique oeuvre collected in set
		For nearly three decades, Rzewski (pronounced "ZHEV-ski"), who is based in Belgium, has been writing and performing magnificent piano works that combine the structural clarity of the writing desk with the improvisatory freedom of live performance.
		Beethoven, in fact, is Rzewski's most direct artistic forebear, in both style and temperament: His work combines the flashy improvisatory facility of the young virtuoso with the intellectual restlessness of the mature composer.
		Rzewski is particularly fond of establishing fixed formal structures for his music -- the 36 variations of "The People United," for instance, proceed in six groups of six, and each movement of the "Sonata" (1991) is plotted on a fiercely regular time grid that governs events.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/10/13/PK45734.DTL (1001 words)

	Art of the States: Frederic Rzewski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Born in Westfield, Massachusetts, Rzewski studied music first with Charles Mackey of Springfield, and subsequently with Walter Piston, Roger Sessions, and Milton Babbitt at Harvard and Princeton Universities.
		In 1960 he went to Italy, where he studied with Luigi Dallapiccola and met Severino Gazzelloni, with whom he performed in a number of concerts, beginning a career as a performer of new piano music.
		Since 1983 Rzewski has been Professor of Composition at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique in Liege, Belgium, and has taught at many universities in the United States.
	www.artofthestates.org /cgi-bin/compbio.pl?compname=rzewskifrederic (262 words)

	American Composers Orchestra - November 2, 1997 Concert
		Frederic Rzewski, an experimental expatriate American composer and avant-garde pianist-dynamo who The Boston Globe calls “one of the most interesting and enigmatic figures on the musical scene,” will be featured composer and soloist with the American Composers Orchestra in its performance Sunday, November 2, 1997 at 3pm in Carnegie Hall.
		Frederic Rzewski now lives in Brussels, and his eclectic background runs the gamut from serialism to performance art theatrics to Cagean aleatory.
		As both composer and performer, Rzewski draws on a seemingly limitless supply of styles and techniques, which he is a master at distilling, varying and connecting into extended compositions which often include vocalization, gestural and percussive effects.
	www.americancomposers.org /release1.htm (1213 words)

	Sleeve Notes - Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated!
		Rzewski's reputation as a new-music pianist and avant-garde experimentalist grew.
		Similarly, Rzewski's variations were written at white heat during September and October of 1975, in response to a commission from pianist Ursula Oppens for a work to complement Beethoven's 'Diabelli' Variations in a recital at the Kennedy Center.
		More than anything, Frederic Rzewski's piano music from the seventies cogently demonstrates that one could be a radical in the grand manner, that innovation and accessibility were plausible bedfellows.
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /notes/67077.html (1588 words)

	Biography - Frederic Rzewski
		Rzewski's early friendship with Christian Wolff and David Behrman, and (through Wolff) his acquaintance with John Cage and David Tudor strongly influenced his development in bath composition and performance.
		Rzewski's largest-scale work to date is The Triumph of Death (1987-8), a two-hour oratorio based on texts adapted from Peter Weiss' 1995 play Die Ermittlung (The Investigation).
		Rzewski has recorded The People United; North American Ballads, and Squares; and the Sonata and De Profundis on hat ART records (CD 6066, 6089, & 6134); Four Pieces on Vanguard; and Bumps, Andante con Moto, andThe Turtle and the Crane for Newport Classic.
	www.ocnmh.cz /biographies_rzewski.htm (454 words)

	Guest Pianist At UI Will Perform Music By Frederic Rzewski Nov. 9
		Pianist Jessica Johnson will perform Frederic Rzewski's 36 Variations on "The People United Will Never Be Defeated!" as a guest of the University of Iowa School of Music at 8 p.m.
		A professor of composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Liege, Belgium, Rzewski is one of the American composers associated with the post-war avant-garde in Europe.
		Rzewski wrote, "I first heard Sergio Ortega's song at a concert given by the Chilean group Inti-Illimani at Hunter College in the fall of 1974, which Ursula and I both attended.
	www.uiowa.edu /~ournews/2005/october/102805johnson.html (677 words)

	Classical Net Review - Rzewski - Piano Works (1975-1999)
		As a pianist, Rzewski is comprehensively equipped, effortlessly virtuosic, favouring clarity with minimal pedal.
		Rzewski and Ursula Oppens were together at a concert in 1974 where they heard the song and afterwards 'walked out into the street singing the melody, and it never left us from that time on'; both pianists have recorded Rzewski's variations, as too has Marc Hamelin.
		Caine and Rzewski are composer pianists to be compared with the great and famous of earlier generations, and this box is as absorbing and thought provoking as the other.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/n/non79623a.html (766 words)

	Musica Elettronica Viva - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV) is a live acoustic/electronic improvisational group formed in Rome in 1966 by Alvin Curran, Richard Teitelbaum, Frederic Rzewski, Allan Bryant, Carol Plantamura, Ivan Vandor, and Jon Phetteplace.
		The first CD is a studio recording in a joint session in England on April 30, 2004 featuring MEV's Curran, Teitelbaum and Rzewski with the three members of AMM.
		This is the first occasion that the two ensembles have performed together, but not the first time they have shared a split release - each outfit filled a side of the LP Live Electronic Music Improvised, released on a US label in 1968.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Musica_Elettronica_Viva (216 words)

	Frederic Rzewski
		Rzewski studied music privately with Charles Mackey in Springfield as a child and studied composition with Walter Piston and Roger Sessions, counterpoint with Randall Thompson and orchestration with Claudio Spies at Harvard University from 1954-58.
		Frederic Rzewski, c/o Esther Freifeld, EGF EPRC, rue de l'Aqueduc 104, Bte.
		Frederic Anthony Rzewski, Frederic A. ewski, Frederick Anthony Rzewski, Frederick A. ewski, Fredrick Anthony Rzewski, Fredrick A. ewski, Frédéric Rzewski, F.A. ewski
	composers21.com /compdocs/rzewskif.htm (634 words)

	Warsaw Autumn 2002 - Performers
		In collaboration with composers representing the 'serious' and jazz avantgarde (such as Anthony Braxton and Steve Lacy) mev has developed a method of creating music as a spontaneous, collective effort, an approach that was taken up by other experimental groups at the time.
		In the 70s Rzewski continued to experiment, treating style and language as structural elements.
		Since 1977 Frederic Rzewski has been a professor of composition at the Royal Conservatory in Liège.
	www.warsaw-autumn.art.pl /02/composers/c26.html (318 words)

	aworks :: "new" american classical music: rzewski, frederic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Is "Shefsky" a mistakenly inserted phonetic pronunciation of Rzewski?
		Frederic Rzewski has written not one, but two works based on letters written by controversial prisoners.
		Rzewski's work may in fact be beautiful but the text clearly conveys a moral tone about struggling against persecution.
	rgable.typepad.com /aworks/rzewski_frederic (1235 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The work has often been compared with Beethoven's great variations, but though Rzewski puts himself through pianistic hoops, he does not stray far from the theme and lacks a comparable genius to subvert and elevate a trite tune as happens with Diabelli's little minuet (or he does not seek to do so).
		Freed from that four-square tonal strait-jacket, Rzewski's creative imagination took wing in his pianistic response to the bombing of Iraq in March this year; depicting how normal life went on alongside his conviction that it was essential to "Stop the War - or it will Stop Us".
		A profound social comment upon the politics of sexuality, his text from Oscar Wilde's letter from Reading Gaol benefitted hugely from state of the art sound diffusion with perfect balance between piano and voice, so that not a word was lost and the music never diminished the resonances of the text.
	www.musicalpointers.co.uk /reviews/liveevents/rzewski_nov03.htm (388 words)

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