Morton_Feldman-Rothko_Chapel_Why_Patterns-(New_Albion_Records)-WEB-1991-BOSS

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|   |  Artist   : Morton Feldman                                          |   |
|   |  Album    : Rothko Chapel; Why Patterns?                            |   |
|   |  Label    : New Albion Records                 Source : WEB MP3     |   |
|   |  Cat. No. : NA039                              Size   : 122.92 MB   |   |
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|   |  UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus;                                        |   |
|   |  David Abel, viola;                                                 |   |
|   |  Karen Rosenak, celeste;                                            |   |
|   |  William Winant, percussion;                                        |   |
|   |  California EAR Unit                                                |   |
|   |                                                                     |   |
|   |  The Rothko Chapel is a spiritual environment created by the        |   |
|   |  American painter Mark Rothko (1903-1970) as a place for            |   |
|   |  contemplation where men and women of all faiths, or of none, may   |   |
|   |  meditate in silence, in solitude or celebration together. For      |   |
|   |  this chapel, built in 1971 by the MΘnil Foundation in Houston,     |   |
|   |  Texas, Rothko painted fourteen large canvasses.                    |   |
|   |                                                                     |   |
|   |  While I was in Houston for the opening ceremonies of the Rothko    |   |
|   |  Chapel, my friends John and Dominique de MΘnil asked me to write   |   |
|   |  a composition as a tribute to Rothko to be performed in the        |   |
|   |  chapel the following year.                                         |   |
|   |                                                                     |   |
|   |  To a large degree, my choice of instruments (in terms of forces    |   |
|   |  used, balance and timbre) was affected by the space of the chapel  |   |
|   |  as well as the paintings. Rothko's imagery goes right to the edge  |   |
|   |  of his canvas, and I wanted the same effect with the music - that  |   |
|   |  it should permeate the whole octagonal-shaped room and not be      |   |
|   |  heard from a certain distance. The result is very much what you    |   |
|   |  have in a recording - the sound is closer, more physically with    |   |
|   |  you than in a concert hall.                                        |   |
|   |                                                                     |   |
|   |  The total rhythm of the paintings as Rothko arranged them created  |   |
|   |  an unbroken continuity. While it was possible with the paintings   |   |
|   |  to reiterate color and scale and still retain dramatic interest,   |   |
|   |  I felt that the music called for a series of highly contrasted     |   |
|   |  merging sections. I envisioned an immobile procession not unlike   |   |
|   |  the friezes on Greek temples.                                      |   |
|   |                                                                     |   |
|   |  These sections could be characterized as follows: 1. a longish     |   |
|   |  declamatory opening; 2. a more stationary "abstract" section for   |   |
|   |  chorus and chimes; 3. motivic interlude for soprano, viola and     |   |
|   |  tympani; 4. a lyric ending for viola with vibraphone               |   |
|   |  accompaniment, later joined by the chorus in a collage effect.     |   |
|   |                                                                     |   |
|   |  There are a few personal references in Rothko Chapel. The soprano  |   |
|   |  melody, for example, was written on the day of Stravinsky's        |   |
|   |  funeral service in New York. The quasi-Hebraic melody played by    |   |
|   |  the viola at the end was written when I was fifteen. Certain       |   |
|   |  intervals throughout the work have the ring of the synagogue.      |   |
|   |                                                                     |   |
|   |  There were other references which I have now forgotten.            |   |
|   |                                                                     |   |
|   |  --Morton Feldman                                                   |   |
|   |                                                                     |   |
|   |  Tracklisting:                                                      |   |
|   |                                                                     |   |
|   |  01. Rothko Chapel 1                                         9:06   |   |
|   |  02. Rothko Chapel 2                                         4:35   |   |
|   |  03. Rothko Chapel 3                                         2:56   |   |
|   |  04. Rothko Chapel 4                                         4:38   |   |
|   |  05. Rothko Chapel 5                                         2:52   |   |
|   |  06. Why Patterns?                                          29:29   |   |
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01-morton_feldman-rothko_chapel_1.mp320,87 MB
02-morton_feldman-rothko_chapel_2.mp310,51 MB
03-morton_feldman-rothko_chapel_3.mp36,77 MB
04-morton_feldman-rothko_chapel_4.mp310,64 MB
05-morton_feldman-rothko_chapel_5.mp36,61 MB
06-morton_feldman-why_patterns.mp367,53 MB