“Composing is a battle for me.” - John Corigliano
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2018
- Living the Classical Life: Episode 60
Winner of four Grammy Awards, an Oscar, and the Pulitzer Prize, American composer John Corigliano has one of the most diverse and prolific musical outputs of his generation. In an exclusive and emotionally revealing feature, John Corigliano opens up about his influences and inspirations, his difficult relationship with his father who was concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, the loss of over 100 friends to the AIDS epidemic and its influence on his works, and the tortured nature of his compositional process. He discusses whether composers endure a specific type of stage fright, and if student composers can be taught an individual voice.
I had the privilege to be one of his students. That was 17 years ago, I was much younger and not fully aware of what a gift it was to sit in his composing class. I hope he is still doing well.
Awesome interview...and huge props to the interviewer for the concise but very incisive questions
One of the best interviews of any kind that I've listened to. The interviewer is fantastic; he performs brilliantly himself. And John C. is as sincere and forthcoming as possible. One learns immeasurably from session like this.
M.Corigliano, your contacf-person sent me a CD of your aids-Symphony, when I worked for Festival van Vlaanderen-Mechelen. I don't like modern music but that work is "wow". Thanks a lot.
Thank you for a very good interview. The title: "Composing is a battle" drew me in.
I met John Corigliano when he was in San Francisco for a performance of his Symphony #1, the AIDS Symphony. He signed the CD I bought at the event.
Very inspiring interview! I'm a big fan of Maestro Corigliano.
Thanks for watching, Emilio Kauderer!
great interview, well thought out questions, answered even better by Corigliano. Fantastic. Thankyou!
And then he wrote a new Opera... The Lord of Cries. He is actually one of the few true and complete Composers of our era.
John Corigliano is one of my music heroes. This was a wonderful video and fulfilled my time this morning.
Glad you enjoyed it, Austin Schlichting!
Ever since purchasing a performance of Corigliano's Piano Concerto on LP in the late 1970s, I have enjoyed his music. Thanks for posting this. 😊
It boggles me that he didn't become famous for that.
@@psijicassassin7166 Agreed. In my view his is possibly the greatest American piano concerto ever written.
Extraordinary. I love this composer. Thank you!
Going to see the World Premier of Corigliano’s “The Lord of Cries” at the Santa Fe Opera next month 😊😊😊😊😊😊
Thank you for this episode. As a visual artist, I hope you do more with composers. The similarities and differences of creating work are quite illuminating.
Wow An insightful interview beautifully articulated…Thank You!!
@21:36 Not just you, man, not just you. I get it. But yeah, this man came my college and gave an amazing talk many years ago. I had to work, and to this day I've hated my job for me missing it. Even my theory professor was upset. Thanks for making this video.
Fantastic interview!
Wonderful interview! So informative and interesting!
Very interesting interview. Thanks.
Great intreview, just love the insight into a composer's mind.
Enjoyed listening to your interview. My dissertation is based on his stylistic features from The Red Violin and had the privilege to interview him at his NYC home.
Where do you live? My son is a composer in L.A.; and my wife and I had the pleasure to meet John and his husband in Costa Rica. They were very gracious.
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Host Zsolt Bognár has the voice to do a good vocal impression of actor Paul Giamatti.
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26:55 - 27:25 This segment here.
how can one be a composer without being proficient on an instrument??
I also find this difficult to understand and I wish the interviewer had spent a little time on this question because it's fascinating ...
Being the son of the concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic would help with your perspective and incentive, I'd imagine.
There are absolutely ways to write music without having any instrumental training yourself. When you’re a composer you have to learn about most instruments anyways so you can know all the techniques, ranges, and capabilities of every instrument you will write for but not have to know how to play them yourself. John Corigliano and John Mackey are 2 of the most prime examples of brilliant composers who never had instrumental training.
Hector Berlioz was no master of an instrument though he played Guitar. Listen to his music! William Walton, was similar I think. There are plenty of contemporary musicians with have little theoretical knowledge that compose great music examples such as Elton John, The Beatles. Chet Baker didn't read music but what a player. In a way nowadays with sound libraries and chord generators almost anyone can have a dabble including rude reviewers who can't write without using profanity. In my humble opinion the more you know about the various instruments and music theory the better you will write. Who do you think helped the Beatles in their formative years., yes their manager. Having said that would Berlioz have been less audacious in his unorthodox harmonic shifts and orchestrarion if he had more of a musical grounding? Sometimes too much learning can hinder as it could stifle your artistic side due to the rules.
@@MrKeithterrett what the fu** are you talking about Elton John or the Beatles? Laughing