DAVID SALMINEN – in concert Sunday, March 30, 2014, 3 pm
Portland Piano Company, 711 SW 14th Ave. Portland, OR 97205
http://www.portlandpianocompany.com
cosmic piano improvisations exploring…
Experiences in Synchronicity
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“Unconstrained by concepts of necessary harmony, repetitions or fixed rhythms, the music swells into the space, forming a matrix for an intense experience of group meditation. We, the listeners, become the music.” Cheryl Kolander, author/artist, Aurora Silk
related ideas and resonance: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/imagine/201004/cosmic-convergences-einstein-talks-about-music-improvisation-rabindranath-tagore
3/20/2014 Apropos equinox, earlier today a friend of mine reminded me of the now “classic” electronic music album “Equinoxe” – released in 1978 by the French musician Jean Michel Jarre… and I found myself remembering the first time I had heard the album… I hope you don’t mind a little anecdote… When I was studying classical piano performance up in Alaska in the 1970’s with the French-born maestro Jean-Paul Billaud, he would sometimes invited the piano “master class” up to his house in the foothills of the Chugach Mountains to listen to music on a good stereo – and to help us develop our musical friendships, I suppose. Sometimes he would have us play a game of “drop the needle”, where he would put some obscure piano concerto or sonata on the record player, and then “drop the needle” somewhere in the middle… and have us guess at the composer and work… it was a fun musical “detective” game. And it was a great way to begin to be able to identify “markers” of the different stylistic eras, composers, and even the life phases of a particular composer. And in terms of Equinoxe – at the end of one of these sessions, Jean-Paul introduced us to the music of the then young Jarre, and the brand-new-at-that-time Equinoxe recording. I had to run out to the record store later and get my own copy. I still have it, and it’s still one of my favorites! Who doesn’t love “the seasons” of our changes, individually, collectively, and cosmically!
David Salminen 