Endless Shout: Piano Solo
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Endless Shout: Piano Solo
By George Lewis
Level: Intermediate
Item: 98-EP68678
$22.95
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Endless Shout is part of an open-ended, striated network of sonic codes that announce membership in what literary theorist Houston A. Baker Jr. calls the "blues matrix." Baker's notion of "blues utterance" presents a living, mutable, mobile, noisy, unstable, vibrant--and ultimately infinite set of possibilities. The work pays homage to the great stride and boogie-woogie pianists: James P. Johnson, Luckey Roberts, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Thomas "Fats" Waller, Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis, Dorothy Donegan, and Winifred Atwell. Endless Shout is dedicated to Muhal Richard Abrams (1930-2018), whose passion for the music of these brilliant artists led me to a deeper understanding of their impact on world culture, while provoking me to reinterpret blues utterance in the light of my own present-day experience. The piece was commissioned by the pianist Frederic Rzewski, who gave the first performance at the Ijsbreker (Amsterdam) in March, 1994. The work is organized in four movements, performed with suitable short pauses between them.
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