Guy Livingston: Don’t Panic! 60 Seconds for Piano

Classical | EAC (APE & CUE) | Wergo (2001) | 2 parts / 189 Mb

“Ensembles that play only new music are plentiful these days, but soloists who play recitals devoted entirely to newly commissioned works are scarce enough to seem heroic or eccentric, or perhaps a bit of both. Guy Livingston, an American pianist who lives in Paris, has assembled a program of recent works that may be quirky enough to appeal to listeners who have doubts about modern musical language” ―The New York Times

Don’t Panic! 60 Seconds for Piano (WER 66492)

Guy Livingston: piano, percussion, tape effects

Guy Livingston opened Solo Flights/ Keyboard Summit with Don’t Panic: 60 seconds for piano, an incomparable one-man show culled from the pianist’s collection of 1-minute works, on 14 February 2003. This is the brilliant new performance created by American pianist Guy Livingston to showcase the endless possibilities of contemporary music. Many of the pieces are amplified or for piano and tape. They use new techniques and range from modern-classical works through virtuosic-serialism to unsettling performance-art. All are premieres written for Livingston. Livingston presents the pieces in sets of 4 or 5 at a time, punctuated by anecdotes about the composers and the genesis of these works. The framework is theatrically exciting and musically innovative: Although one minute seems like an unbelievably short time, it actually offers the composers a good deal of scope. An entire atmosphere can be established (or destroyed) in 60 seconds. The program offers a wide-ranging sampler of new music styles from the most traditional classical up to cutting-edge avant-garde.

Tracklist

Dan Warburton (Manchester): Speed Study 1

Jonathan Katz (Tokyo): WENDIGO

Daniel Landau (Den Haag): Losing it again

Carl Faia (Paris): What if I just said …

Roger Kleier (New York): Step out of the Car

Donal Fox (Boston): The Scream

James Baiye (Regina): Database of Desire

Roberto Andreoni (Milano): “scendi un minuto”

Brian Escriv (Toronto): Mason and Dixon

Annie Gosfield (Brooklyn): Brooklyn, October 5, 1941

Paul Beaudoin (Allston): re: dance (PNMR)

Marek Zebrowski (Los Angeles): Ex tempore

Louis Andriessen (Amsterdam): not [an] anfang

Christopher Culpo (Paris): Spangles

Isak Goldschneider (‘s-Gravenhage): 42 Second Piano

Richard Brooks (Brooklyn): Conflict of Interest

Danielle Baas (Bruxelles): Joke

Charles Shadle (Medford): Cowboy Song

Sophie de Wit (Los Angeles): Who asked you?

Pepe-Tonino Caravaggio (San Diego): EIGHT 8

T.J. Anderson (Chapel Hill): Watermelon Revisited

Paul von Hippel (Columbus): Kodaly Music Box

Eilon Aviram (Ein-Harod Meuhad): NA’OU’RA (the Wedding Dance)

Jonathan Norton (Menlo Park): 59” of Piano

Alan Frederick Shockley (Richmond): cold springs branch, 10 p.m.

Moritz Eggert (München): Hämmerklavier XI

Derek Bermel (New Rochelle): MEDITATION

Tuyet A. Tran (New York): Tonal Imagery

Fritz Lauer (Halifax): Slusha, for C.E.

William Bolcom (Ann Arbor): A 60-second Ballet (for chickens)

Joshua Cody (New York City): Two-Chord Warp

Joanna Bailie (Amsterdam): GIRO 1

Martial Robert (Nantes): 1’ de Tonio Kröger (op. 10)

Patricia Elizabeth Martinez (Buenos Aires): Absolutis-s

Riccardo Vaglini (Pisa): PASSATEMPO

Gene Pritsker (New York): im afraid you might ask for a fragment of my soul

Newt Hinton (Vilnius): Nakano-ku (à S.D.)

Ketty Nez (San Francisco): Moondrunk

Patrick Cahallan (Dublin): xxx.rhapsody

Yoichi Togawa (Osaka): prelude 1

Barbara Engel (Cambridge): Punch and Judy’s Waltz

Joseph Rovan (Tallahassee): Miro Sketch: Mostly Yellow

Frederick Frahm (La Conner): Sonata Moirai

Victor Ekimovsky (Moscow): Jenseits des Guten und des Bösen

Alper Maral (Istanbul): Verschiebung

Stéphane Leach (Paris): Piano Piece for Guy

Ketzel Cotel (New York): piece for paws

Vanessa Lann (Den Haag): DD (Double D)

Walter Haven (Keene): Minute Rice

Giovanni Mancuso (Venezia): Saltarello for Guy

Sergio Pallante (Messina): Polis

D. Andrew Stewart (Toronto): réveil

Elliott Sharp (Manhattan): Snaps

Robert Eidschun (Rochester): Specks

Lionel Sainsbury (Chadlington): Prelude

Richard Carrick (San Diego): Slowness

Walter Sanchez (Lafayette): Thinking

Atsushi Yoshinaka (Tokyo): HARU NO YOI – Miyabi no Uta

Atanasio Khyrsh (München): Parce que je le vaux bien

Lansing D. McLoskey (Cambridge): Theft

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