Elliot Carter's 'Luimen' at Tanglewood

Performance of Elliot Carter's 'Luimen' at Tanglewood, 7/20/08. Joseph Brent, mandolin; Oren Fader, guitar; Megan Levin, harp; Steven Merrill, vibes; Patrick Pfister, trombone; Chris Coletti, trumpet; Christoph Altstaedt, conducting. Watch through the end for an appearance by Mr. Carter himself.

Joseph Brent is available for lessons in classical and improv mandolin. Find out more by contacting the Mannes School of Music Extension Division at 212-580-0210 ex 4802. Long-distance lessons available and welcome with a high speed internet connection and a webcam.

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[OrchestradiMandolini]

Excellent! Great music and very well performed. Thanks for posting.

[jo3br3nt]

Thank you, Alex!

[TheBlackPage1]

Yes, I would love to know that also.

Wonderful piece, wonderful performance. Elliott Carter is a genius in the truest sense of the word, and we're lucky to blessed with his music.

[jo3br3nt]

A friend of mine is one of the developers for Microsoft Silverlight, a Flash competitor. I pointed him to the link on the BSO site, and in a minute or so he was able not only to download the entire embedded .flv file, but edit it down to just the Luimen for me as well. This fellow, I don't need to say, is a pretty smart fellow.

[jo3br3nt]

Thank you musicsignifica and TheBlackPage1 for the kind words, I often feel blessed to not only be able to play this incredible music, but to share it with such exceptional musicians.

[tedskes]

Absolutely wonderful and great to play it in presence of the composer.

[jo3br3nt]

Thank you, Tom! I have played this piece for Mr. Carter many times now, and it is always an honor.

[nuguymart]

sweet

[MrChirpsky]

It saddens me to see classical music on it's way out -demographically. All the musicians are in the 20s or 30s while the audience is invariably made up of a handful of retirees. Where is tomorrows audience? Unless each of us who value this contemporary "experimental" music actively promote it while we are still alive, there will be no future audience, and then classical music really will be a thing of the past.

[PiscaCPT]

Bravo! Cheers from Brazil

[unRompecabezas]

I was at this performance at Ozawa Hall that day. You and the other musicians did a superb job.

[SparcoC4]

WTF IS THIS?!

[dannyboyrocker]

Here's my word to describe this elaborate work: STARTLING!!! In the most positive sense of the word of course!!

[joebassplayer]

@dubwesa it's actually one of his most listenable pieces!

[dubwesa]

this is very hard to listen to

[jmcgann00]

Great work from all, this ain't no "Louie Louie" ...everyone here "puts eyebrows on it" to quote F. Zappa!