{"id":430,"date":"2016-01-14T13:36:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T18:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/szsolomon.com\/percdb\/?p=430"},"modified":"2016-01-15T09:40:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T14:40:42","slug":"salkind-pearl-everything-at-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/salkind-pearl-everything-at-once\/","title":{"rendered":"Salkind-Pearl – Everything at Once"},"content":{"rendered":"
Composer’s Name: Mischa Salkind-Pearl<\/p>\n
Title of Piece: Everything All At Once (2010)<\/p>\n
Number of Percussion Players: 2<\/p>\n
Total Number of Players: 2<\/p>\n
Instrumentation: Player I: bass drum, kick drum, snare drum, 2 congas, hi-hat, sizzle cymbal, ratchet, 1 crotale, wood block, meditation chime, mixing bowl; Player II: marimba (5-oct.), kick drum, snare drum, 2 toms, hi-hat, wood block, mixing bowl<\/p>\n
Approximate length: 12 min.<\/p>\n
Program Note:<\/p>\n
\u201cI wrote Everything All At Once at a time when I felt the freedom of contemporary composition to be too dogmatic. \u00a0There is an unspoken list of permissibly modern effects one may write, and if the composer avoids these, he<\/p>\n
gets thrown in some “Romantic” camp or another. \u00a0The resulting music is as much a response to this unfortunate fact of life as to a wholly different source of inspiration. \u00a0Several years ago I lived in Spain and had the chance to see<\/p>\n
many of the ancient towns. \u00a0As I began to form this piece, the notion of stylistic multiplicity and contradictions brought me once again to memories of some of Spain’s most striking towns.<\/p>\n
C\u00e1ceres is a small city in southwestern Extremadura, a poor state known for its cork trees. \u00a0C\u00e1ceres is suffering a lengthy economic recession, and modernization is spotty- within a small area one can see the old town with the cathedral, the tourist strip, the mall, the business district, and so on. \u00a0There is a feeling of reluctant compromise between all elements of this city, and despite its beauty I couldn’t help but experience the culture as self-contradictory.<\/p>\n
Salamanca, in Castilla la Mancha in central Spain, is a town where the modern has thoroughly meshed with the ancient. \u00a0Alongside the Plaza Mayor and the university (one of the world’s oldest), sit trendy clothing stores and<\/p>\n
nightclubs. \u00a0What I loved most was that Salamanca gave off no air of contradiction; instead, it felt like I was simultaneously visiting two different times. \u00a0The notions of contradictions, multiplicity, and unity form the basis of this piece.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Everything All At Once was written for\u00a0<\/span>Karli Mason<\/a>\u00a0and Matt Sharrock\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n – Mischa Salkind-Pearl<\/p>\n Categories: Percussion Ensemble<\/p>\n