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Concerts by Composers: Malcolm Goldstein
Works Performed or Excerpted:
1. “from Center of Rainbow, Sounding” – Malcolm Goldstein (violin)
2. “Excerpt from Marin’s Song, Illuminated” – Malcolm Goldstein (violin and voice), Joseph Celli (English horn and oboe), David Moss (percussion) and Philip Corner (harpsichord)
This program requires special erratum due to some factual mistakes in the original voice over. The first solo violin piece is “from Center of Rainbow, Sounding”, not a “Soundings” as the host says. The difference is significant as the former is an example of Goldman’s structured improvisation composition as opposed to “Soundings” which refers to a completely open improvisation.
In the second work excerpted here, “Marin’s Song, Illuminated”, the composer points out that the scores for the piece are not his son Marin’s drawings as the host says, but “collage/graphic scores that are derived from his [Marin’s] first attempts to write his name. There is a series of these scores projected on the wall that then structures the sequence of musical activities of the musicians.
Malcolm Goldstein
Malcolm Goldstein (b. Brooklyn, New York, United States, March 27, 1936) is a composer, violinist and improviser who has been active in the presentation of new music and dance since the early 1960's. He received an M.A. in music composition from Columbia University in 1960, having studied with Otto Luening. In the 1960's in New York City, he was a co-founder with James Tenney and Philip Corner of the Tone Roads Ensemble and was a participant in the Judson Dance Theater, the New York Festival of the Avant-Garde and the Experimental Intermedia Foundation. Since then, he has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe, with solo concerts as well as with new music and dance ensembles.
His "Soundings" improvisations have received international acclaim for having "reinvented violin playing", extending the range of tonal/sound-texture possibilities of the instrument and revealing new dimensions of expressivity.
Since the mid-1960's he has integrated structured improvisation aspects into his compositions, exploring the rich sound textures of new performance techniques within a variety of instrumental and vocal frameworks. Numerous ensembles such as Essential Music, Relâche, Musical Elements, The New Performance Group of Cornish Institute, L'Art pour l'art, Quatuor Bozzini and Klangforum Wien have performed his music, as well as the Ensemble for New Music/Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt, of which he was the director in the 1990's. His music has been performed at several New Music America festivals, Meet the Moderns/Brooklyn Philharmonic, Pro Musica Nova Bremen, Acustica International/WDR Cologne, Invention '89 Berlin, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, De Ijsbreker Amsterdam, Maerz Music Berlin, Cologne Triennale, Sound Culture Tokyo, Neue Horizonte and Ton Art Bern, and Musique Action Nancy.
He has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts/Inter-Arts (USA), the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, the Canada Council for the Arts, and Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec, as well as numerous commissions from Studio Akustische Kunst/WDR Cologne. In 1994 he received the Prix International award for his acoustic art/radio work "between (two) spaces".
He has written extensively on improvisation as in his book Sounding the Full Circle. His critical edition of Charles Ives's "Second String Quartet", which was commissioned by the Charles Ives Society, is now being prepared for publication.
He now resides in Sheffield, Vermont, USA and Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Malcolm Goldstein on the Experimental Intermedia Series
“Experimental Intermedia: a place to try out whatever was new, the casual ambiance open for possibilities unheard before.
My Soundings were performed there often, as well as other violin/voice pieces, with open & structured improvisation settings, including some ensemble compositions like "Marin's Song, Illuminated".
After leaving the music/art scene of NYC, soon to live in Vermont in the 1970s, I returned occasionally to Experimental Intermedia to offer my music. One of these performances received a very nice review from Tom Johnson in the Village Voice that, along with my self-produced LP recording "Soundings for Solo Violin", helped to launch me back into the business of music making, with concert tours in Europe beginning in 1978 and on & on until 2010.” – Malcolm Goldstein 2011
Malcolm Goldstein in DRAM
http://www.dramonline.org/composers/goldstein-malcolm
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