| In The Snowy Margins Violon Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Violin SKU: PR.114418750 Composed by Michael Hersch. Sws. P...(+)
Chamber Music Violin
SKU: PR.114418750
Composed by Michael
Hersch. Sws. Performance
Score. 8 pages. Duration
11 minutes. Theodore
Presser Company
#114-41875. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114418750). ISBN
9781491129524. UPC:
680160655489. 9 x 12
inches. The
seven-movement in the
snowy margins might be
considered a sort of
atomic suite, as each
movement is succinct, yet
a microcosmic powerhouse
inspired by “The
Comet,” by Polish
writer and Holocaust
victim Bruno Schulz.
Hersch’s intensity is
expressed through
dramatically captivating
violin gestures, pushing
the boundaries of
texture, technique, and
emotion. Michael
Hersch’s in the snowy
margins was written in
2010. Like much of his
work, it is grounded in
literature and art. The
title is drawn from a
short story, The Comet by
Polish writer, poet, and
artist, Bruno Schulz
(1892-1942). This forms
the last of his
collection The Street of
Crocodiles, published in
1934. Schulz was shot by
a Nazi officer in
1942.Both the title of
Hersch’s work, and the
‘motto’ found on the
composer’s manuscript
(‘Thus far and no
further. But what has
become of the end of the
world…’) are to be
found in The Comet.
It’s interesting that
in in the snowy margins,
unlike his earlier
Fourteen Pieces which
were inspired by the
poetry of Primo Levi,
Hersch chose to not title
each individual movement
with a quote. However his
choices of text are
applied, there is a clear
quality of distillation.
In every case, the texts
which the composer has
chosen to eschew lie
beneath the music, akin
to the greater mass of an
iceberg, submerged, but
imminent.Hersch also has
very particular taste in
visual art, and there
seems to be common ground
between the intensely
expressionist drawing of
Schulz, and those of
Michael Mazur, which
inspired his string
quartet Images from a
Closed Ward. The
parallels between these
artists reflect common
traits shared between
these two pieces, which
provide a window on how
the music should be
approached, expressively
and technically. I would
argue, that from a
violinist’s point of
view, this pertains
directly to how bow and
left hand should approach
the string: the febrile
vibrancy of both Mazur
and Schulz’s pencil and
charcoal strokes, perhaps
what T.S. Eliot called
the ‘circulation of the
lymph’, in every
gesture, speaks to the
intense experience,
physically and
emotionally, of playing
(and hearing) this music.
There is an intense sense
of ‘truth to
materials’ at every
moment, the sense that
every note sings on the
edge of, or even beyond,
total collapse.— Peter
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| Unleashing the Potential of the Musician's Body GIA Publications
SKU: GI.G-10856 Timani: Anatomy and Exercises for Healthy Playing and ...(+)
SKU: GI.G-10856
Timani: Anatomy and
Exercises for Healthy
Playing and Singing.
Composed by Tina
Margareta Nilssen. Music
Education. 332 pages. GIA
Publications #10856.
Published by GIA
Publications
(GI.G-10856). ISBN
9781622777303. Unle
ashing the Potential of
the Musician’s
Body offers clear and
practical tools for music
professionals, students,
educators, movement
specialists, and
therapists working with
musicians. You’ll
learn about relevant
anatomy—in
particular, joints,
muscles, and
fascia—and get
information on how the
brain and movement are
linked together.
You’ll find dozens
of illustrated
performance-targeted
exercises for all parts
of the body, with
specific instructions for
different types of
instruments as well as
for singers. The
exercises are designed to
optimize movement and
make playing or singing
more effortless and
expressive—and
through this, access more
musical potential. This
book also touches on
subjects such as
warm-ups, pain, healthy
living, and self-care
tips. Tina Margareta
Nilssen is a pianist,
creator of the Timani
movement system for
musicians, and the
founder of
Musicians’ Health
and Movement Institute.
She lives in Oslo,
Norway, teaches at
various universities, and
gives lectures and
workshops to professional
musicians and music
students around the
world. She has taught
thousands of musicians
from more than 20
countries how to access
more potential in their
bodies while playing or
singing. Learn more at
unleashingthepotential.co
m. Tina Margareta Nilssen
takes you on an exciting
journey through the
musician’s
instrument: your body and
your brain. She shares
her abundance of
anatomical knowledge,
presented in a way that
is engaging and easy to
understand. I highly
recommend this book to
both students and
experienced performers
looking for a deeper
understanding of our
functionality, not only
to avoid pain and injury,
but also for exploring
our potential for greater
artistic freedom.
—Tuva Semmingsen
  Opera Singer
  Associate
Professor at the Grieg
Academy in Bergen This
book should be required
reading for every music
educator, student, and
professional. Through
this information,
musicians will be
empowered to take their
education to the next
level. —Hannah
Murray  Â
Violinist and Co-founder
of Corpßonore A
must-read for all
musicians, and for health
professionals and
therapists working with
musicians! Tina Margareta
Nilssen has managed to
fuse the musical world
and body science.
—Karen van der
Starre  Â
Psychomotor
physiotherapist at the
Norwegian Academy of
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