‘Shambling Emerge – after after party’ by Aart Strootman performed by Kluster5

Описание: ‘Shambling Emerge – after after party’ by Aart Strootman (1987, NLD) - Winner Gaudeamus Award 2017

Recorded live during Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2017 – TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht 8 September 2017

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The title Shambling Emerge is an anagram for the name of the famous Dutch composer Misha Mengelberg, who died on 3 March 2017. He was a composer, pianist, improviser and co-founder of the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra. He made his name primarily in the field of free improvisation, but he was also a creditable composer: he won the Gaudeamus Award in 1961 for his work Musica Per 17 Instrumenti.

Fifty-six years later, Aart Strootman has written Shambling Emerge. He based the piece on a short film about Mengelberg made by Bas Andriessen. After a concert in the Bimhuis on 1 June 2014, Misha, dressed in an orange jacket and black cap, sits down at the piano in the café. After about a minute, Emily Glerum, the daughter of ICP bass player Ernst Glerum, joins him at the piano, and an extraordinary duet ensues.

The duet is an example of informal music, such as Mengelberg heard in the late 1940s during the interval of a Duke Ellington concert in the Concertgebouw. Ellington’s totally spontaneous way of making music and the fact that it was possible to make music so informally made a deep impression on the young Misha Mengelberg.

The ‘afterparty’ film in turn made a deep impression on Strootman: ‘This duet, involving an old man consumed by Alzheimer’s and a young, playful, innocent girl, was for me the purest music I’d heard in years.’ The title is not only a reference to Mengelberg, but also to the figure of Emily ‘shambling’ shyly towards the piano.

Watch the video ‘Mengelberg Afterparty’:    • "AFTERPARTY" by MISHA MENGELBERG & EMILY G...  

Aart Strootman on the process of composing ‘Shambling Emerge – after after party’:    • Young Music Pioneer Aart Strootman on the ...  

Sheet music available by Deuss Music: https://www.deussmusic.com/

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