George Crumb - Mundus Canis - 1. Tammy

First movement of George Crumb's Mundus Canis, featuring George Crumb on percussion and David Starobin on guitar. This video was filmed with a photo camera (so, I'm sorry for the poor quality) on 01 March 2007 at Riceland Hall, Fowler Center, Arkansas State University.

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Music

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• George
• Crumb
• David
• Starobin
• Mundus
• Canis
• guitar
• percussion

[rhjenkins]

@UAclassico "from where my assessment is coming from." that's funny.

[mouvement715]

i dont know about this piece being genius cant tell from the recording, but black angels most certainly is, Makrokosmos(music for a summer evening), vox banale(voice of the whale), ancient voices of children, his madrigals, all amazing music. With out a doubt one of the best composers of our time, he was asked to do the music for the exorcist and turned it down....total bad ass.

[nkupianist]

In response to your criticism of Crumb: first off, Crumb's music is often incredibly lyrical; there are many moments in "Black Angels" that are as beautiful as any Schubert melody if you have the ears to pick up on that. Secondly, Crumb's use of instruments in different ways has created some of the most interesting timbres that have ever been created in classical music; this video isn't necessarily the best example of this, but when you treat Crumb as a talentless hack, I say do some research.

[j2daonathan]

George crumb's music in my opinion is to create a mood not to be lyrical in anyway I mean put on "black angels(the departure)" by him... full blast in a dark room by yourself I mean your crapping your pants! but anyway I think he's genius in a sense but that's just me! everyone has their opinions I guess it's what you look for in music.....

[j2daonathan]

I'm 16 years old and find george crumb interesting. This piece definately is not pretty music to listen to but to insult it is wrong. I think mr.crumb is bored of sweet melodies and minor chords for creating a dark or sad sound.

[BrucknerEnthusiast]

You're certainly right about the dangers of critising music when relying on a bad recording. I took part in a performance of Crumb's Makrokosmos III (Music for a Music Evening) at the 1987 Edinburgh Festival (broadcast by the BBC) but I was the only performer in the ensemble who had bothered to research what sounds Crumb wanted. I felt that our performance had virtually ZERO poetic value, yet the CD recording supervised by Crumb himself was beautiful.

[xencage]

Im sorry, but you are a total idiot.

[jazzmaster3000]

George would not approve of this online fighting. No sir.

[UAclassico]

How would you know from where my assessment is coming from? I'm not familiar with HUM 101,but if my comment rings in tune with some label that was applied to Crumb in another source, maybe I read it more than a decade ago and it must've stuck--as do most things that are profoundly true. I am familiar with 20th century music theory and history (classes I took 13 years ago), so say what you want, but Mundus Canis is meandering (yet interestingly, repetitious) crap IMO. A total waste of time.

[phenomenonnon]

You're just throwing out regurgitated Humanities 101 crap to sound "intelligent". You have no idea what you're talking about. Your "percussion noisemaker" remark is about as relevant as saying "my house is brick so I hate wood".