Post by isaacs on Jul 1, 2007 16:03:01 GMT 10
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Today I had some fun being involved in the pre-recording of the second hour of next Saturday's "The Music Show" on Radio National. It's the 75th anniversary of the ABC today (founded 1932) and its Sydney Ultimo studios were open to the public and the Music Show segment was taped in front of a live audience in the Eugene Goossens Hall. The producers' idea was to do songs from that year. I accompanied Katie Noonan in Night and Day (the most famous song of that year) and Robyne Dunn in Mad About the Boy. I played Try a Little Tenderness solo. The show's producers also invited me to do a solo piano "deconstruction" of Night and Day. I was going to improvise it, but decided at the last minute to through-compose it in full. It occurred to me that in 1932 German Expressionism was alive and well, in particular that of the Second Viennese School so I wrote in homage to Alban Berg and called the piece Nacht und Tag, as you do.
Today I had some fun being involved in the pre-recording of the second hour of next Saturday's "The Music Show" on Radio National. It's the 75th anniversary of the ABC today (founded 1932) and its Sydney Ultimo studios were open to the public and the Music Show segment was taped in front of a live audience in the Eugene Goossens Hall. The producers' idea was to do songs from that year. I accompanied Katie Noonan in Night and Day (the most famous song of that year) and Robyne Dunn in Mad About the Boy. I played Try a Little Tenderness solo. The show's producers also invited me to do a solo piano "deconstruction" of Night and Day. I was going to improvise it, but decided at the last minute to through-compose it in full. It occurred to me that in 1932 German Expressionism was alive and well, in particular that of the Second Viennese School so I wrote in homage to Alban Berg and called the piece Nacht und Tag, as you do.