Webernian Row in Bach BWV 996
I resisted for a while, and I know others who still resist.
"....a quasi-orchestral pallete of coloristic effects...deftly realized by Anderson as he shaped each entry with epigrammatic concentration." – Thomas May, The Washington Post
"Reconcile sounds that modernists exclude with sounds that minimalists exclude, as well as sounds that both exclude; on the technical plane, divorce a technique from the sound world of the technique's first use. These are, broadly, the principles that keep my music from falling into any currently entrenched circle."
– William Kentner Anderson
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A Twisted Pearl in BWV 995
Opening of Sarabande-- Fwiw--this is a complete augmented scale-- The next note is D, which breaks the scale. I suspect agumented scale awareness. [I'm using the guitar versions in A minor. Bach's version is in G …
David Loeb Gaunkyo
Gaunkyo [smplayer tag=Loebgaunkyo=bar-ui bar-ui=full-width] for sho and viol quartet In Gaunkyo David Loeb combines the Japanese shō with archaic Western string instruments--viols. Likewise, modal melodies and harmonies …
Latest Discography
William Kentner Anderson Der Weg ins Freie
2019, Furious Artisans (facd6819)Works
- Afterlight (For Dottie)
- Apple Variations
- Djuna Barnes Settings
- Grüne Heinrich
- J'Entends le moulin a new song cycle for the Bowers/Fader Duo
- My Morphine
- Of Course
- Poema harmónico
- The Job of Journeywork
- Various Roses
From the New Focus Website
Guitarist/composer William Kentner Anderson releases a collection of works ... music is not like anything else, often engaging with simple musical materials-pop songs, folksongs and folk lyrics. He breaks barriers-asking his guitarists to sing backup vocals, incorporating Tibetan overtone singing in his setting of Djuna Barnes' "Paradise", integrating an uillean piper into the Cygnus Ensemble.
Camerata 21, Vol. 04
2018, Marsyas ProductionsWorks by Mario Davidovsky, Emil Awad, Jeffrey Nichols, Jose Saldaña, William Anderson, Robert Pollock
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Nameless: Works by Matthew Greenbaum
2015, Furious Artisans (FACD6812)Matthew Greenbaum is the only composer in New York to be a mentee of both Stefan Wolpe and Mario Davidovsky. Wolpe was one of the many great minds who were forced to our shores by historical circumstances, and arriving here, found that there was interest in what they had to offer. Stravinsky, Hindemith, Krenek, Schoenberg, as well as Stefan Wolpe all tried to put down roots in the Western Hemisphere, with varied success. Or, perhaps it’s more fair to say that their influence is paying off very slowly over a long period of time.
Le Cirque: Anderson-Fader Duo
2011, Furious Artisans (FACD6811)Works
Scott Johnson - Bowery Haunt (electric guitar duo)
Charles Wuorinen - Dodecadactyl
Martin Rokeach - Fantasy on 12 Strings
Chester Biscardi - Resisting Stillness
Sidney Corbet - Le Cirque, after Chagall (title track, with soprano Elizabeth Farnum)
Robert Pollock - Entertwined
David Lang - Warmth (electric guitar duo)
Frank Brickle - Genius Loci (guitar and mandolin)
William Anderson/Gillian Welch - My Morphine