Andy Costello plays Henry Cowell - The Tides of Manaunaun (1912?)

[gabrieru1983]

TERRIFIC! CONGRATULATIONS!

[flutehappenny]

LOVELY interpretation of the piece, thank you for sharing. One correction however: Cowell himself 'changed' the date of this composition (and multiple others) several times later in his life in order to make himself seem more precocious. The piece was actually composed as a prelude to the opera The Building of Bamba, which was written in 1922. Thus, Manaunaun was written about the same time, with the earliest likely date being 1917.

[mynameisandycostello]

@flutehappenny Thank you for the comment!! Can you point me in the direction of your sources? I'd be curious to read about this to be better informed! Thanks, Andy

[flutehappenny]

@mynameisandycostello Cowell, Henry. American Composers on American Music: A Symposium. Stanford University Press. 1962.

Cowell, Henry; Higgins, Dick; Gann, Kyle. Essential Cowell. McPherson and Company. 2002.

Cowell, Henry. New Musical Resources. Cambridge University Press. 1996.

Cowell, Henry. Piano Music: Volume Two. New York: Associated Music Publishers, 1982

Hicks, Michael “The Imprisonment of Henry Cowell”. Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Spring, 1991) 92-119

[flutehappenny]

@mynameisandycostello I hope that helps you a little bit :)

[origamimadness]

Really great job-- the clusters on that piece are so difficult to do without overwhelming the melody! Any chance you might get around to recording the rest of the suite?

[BBArtandMusic]

That composition was pre----tty!!

[StewieSwan]

Spock plays Henry Cowell

[mynameisandycostello]

@StewieSwan Dear Stewie, I've gone through great great pain to clarify that mynameisandycostello. Although I appreciate the comparison, I would like to make this clear: mynameisandycostelloandnotspoc­k(althoughIsometimeswishitwas)­.

[sfzNotes]

@StewieSwan Even a half-vulcan cannot play as well as andycostellothehuman. quite extraordinary and with depth. too bad the camera angle hides your hands.....

[witoldzio]

Great playing. Thanks!

[Damuse8191]

I don't really like most contemporary music, but this is beautiful :D

[DiatonicSoul]

I love this, great job

[Topographic0ceans]

Thanks dude, this is one of my new favourite songs

[potvi19]

Crazy to think that Cowell was like 15 when he wrote this!

[radicaljungle]

@potvi19 17 I think. We had this piece last week at university in improvisation on the piano. By the way really lovely ;-)

[berndschumannsvideos]

Well done! I am amazed in how many distinguished ways even a cluster can be played...

[robotkarel]

I love clusters!

[petezilla]

thank you!

p.s. ever heard Monk use his forearm ?

[maxflam]

Una intensa interpretazione di un brano "contemporaneo" per pianoforte in cui il tema melodico contrasta con un' armonizzazione in cui prevalgono i CLUSTERS (gruppi di note eseguite simultaneamente con l'avambraccio) ....

[steeeeevve]

A very romantic composition which relies heavily on the change Tonic to Supertonic minor= C to Dm7.

[joebassplayer]

the left hand/arm sounds like a gong! :)

[tunglour]

I want to improvise

[angelofmusic419]

I very much like your interpretation of this piece. But I think you should have used a different angel so that people could see the note clusters in the left hand, merely for learning purposes but still, it could have had a better angle.

[angelofmusic419]

I very much like your interpretation of this piece. But I think you should have used a different angel so that people could see the note clusters in the left hand, merely for learning purposes but still, it could have had a better angle.

[lucioblanel69]

Great composition (i love Cowell's music) and great performance! Thanks!!

(I write comments sometimes in italian and sometimes in english because my english is very very bad...you can see!!)

[colourmegone]

I don't know much about art but I know what I like and this is it. Rock and roll for the unredeemed. Great performance, thanks for posting this.

[Medsas]

to clarify, I'm not saying the piano playing is bad, because its great, but the filming angle is horrible... for learning we need to see the left hand doing clusters, whats the point of using the reverse angle and covering the keyboard completely.

[Medsas]

shitty film most of the video... most pointless angle you could have for this...

[DevinKell]

hahaha I totally agree! Why wouldn't they show the keyboard?!!

[VIDE0DR0ME]

@Medsas : Throwing out the baby along with the bathwater, are we?

[josephgoodrich]

Wow. That was a great performance!

[stpfan44]

this is the best version of tides of maunaun;

[uriangatobataclan]

i did'nt know Cowell's work... now I love it

[svetadarling]

excellent job andy costello. wow.

[alejhombre]

Is there any similarity between this piece and some compositions in Debussy's "Books of Preludes" , or is it my lack of musical awareness that makes it seem so to me?

At any rate, I find this piece to be wonderful.

[Faenval]

This piece uses some pentatonic scales in the right hand that sound very Debussyan, yes.

[richragsdale]

great piece!

I love cowell

[voxhunden]

Great.

[Strike3721Ben]

just bang your head agest the keys.... it will sound the same!!!

[lurxtlifeson]

Great job. I'm just getting into cowell... I usually like more progressive stuff which is what draws me to cowell. if you like him and you like GOOD pop/rock music, check out Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. They're about as experimental and original as it gets. Nice playing!!!

[philnoll]

This has become one of my favorite pieces. Its powerful, innovative, evocative, but its also got a nice melody and that's important.

[zenrarity]

Without deviation, progress is not possible. Now shut up and go watch your cartoons, Goober.

[lahoradellobo]

bien, che, que inteligente...

[lurxtlifeson]

ignorant, but funny as anything

[Lukecash12]

You definitely have good taste if you are going after Cowell. Do you have video of yourself performing the other two Irish Legends?

I hope you enjoy the play lists on my channel. I've been categorizing a lot of good music on this site.

Where are you learning musicology at? I got a lot of that in at University of Pacific.

[Lukecash12]

I like it, it's got its charm for sure. You seemed a little over eager all throughout though. It didn't really start at pianissimo, and the tempo was a little fast, but it was good, stern interpretation overall. Thank you for the upload.

[amyleeluvr]

This piece has to be one of my top five favorites. I love the way Henry Cowell uses the arms in different ways to make the piano use different sounds. I am learning his piece The Banshee next semester at school.

[Lightandgold]

Very refreshing to hear a piano player deviate from the same old tired Romantic lineup. Kudos to you to a bravura performance.

[dasklavierleben]

@Lightandgold This is actually very romantic, but apparently your head is too far up your ass to notice.

[maizemaniac21]

i love cowell's new kind of piano playing, so unique and such a deviation from traditional piano, great playing, I like it!

[apollonmusagete]

The connection with Debussy's "impressionism" is evident in this interesting early example of tonal modernism. You have quite a flair for twentieth-century piano literature and a vivid musical imagination in your own right.

I'd like to hear you play some of the late Beethoven sonatas--and maybe the Mozart A Minor?

A fine and impressive young talent!

[mynameisandycostello]

I'm planning on a mozart sonata in the next month or so... As far as late Beethoven, I played Op. 110 a long time ago, poorly. Perhaps in the more distant future I'll tackle a project like that. Thanks for the kindness!

[JupiterIV]

Have you ever thought of a duet with a player piano?

[JupiterIV]

@mynameisandycostello What would you say to taking a look at my revisions to the Saint-Saens/Liszt 'Danse Macabre', in which i keep the same atmosphere as the Liszt version, but make it more closer to Saint-Saens' original at the same time?

[cnmaster01]

@apollonmusagete funny i'd like to hear most "great musicians play Berg or Stravinsky

[munchanime]

Nice one I enjoyed it.