Boston Modern Orchestra Project & Gil Rose – Gail Kubik: Symphony Concertante (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Boston Modern Orchestra Project & Gil Rose – Gail Kubik: Symphony Concertante (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:09:16 minutes | 630 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMOP – sound

Tom [ Scherman, of the Little Orchestra Society ] came to me and said, “Hey Kubik, I’m being pestered all the time by the pianist in my orchestra, Frank Glazer, for a solo appearance, and by Bob Nagel, my trumpet player, and the principal violist [ Theodore Israel ] .” And so Tom, figuring to kill three birds with one stone said, “Can’t you write me a piece for piano, viola, trumpet, and orchestra, and I’ll have my three players do the solo parts and they’ll get off of my back?” I said, “Sure.” And since it came within a month or so after I’d finished recording the score to the film C-Man, which had exactly those three solo instruments, I just re-wrote it as the Symphony Concertante. Don’t do that thinking that you’re going to save time. It’s twice as hard, it’s ten times as hard, than to just write a new piece.

Because Gerald McBoing Boing’s producers were insistent that the musical score should function as equal partner with animation and writing in the film’s production, the usual cartoon-making procedures were reversed: the score was composed first; the music served as a blueprint for animation, and not, as is usual, as imitative “super sound effects” to accompany the animation. In short, music functioned as music. To transfer Gerald’s score, therefore, from motion picture screen to concert stage was simple, indeed, and was accomplished without alteration or loss of a single note.

The basic difference between film and abstract music is one of architecture; a film score being, of course, required to follow the architecture of the film, whereas abstract music follows a purely musical and self-sufficient structure. Abstract music needs no film to accompany it in order to be a totally satisfying aesthetic experience. [ The film Transatlantic ] reflects an over-all light-hearted mood, with only a moderate effort at precise synchronization. The sections of the score therefore take on, for the most part, fairly clear-cut formal structures which made their later use in my Divertimento for thirteen instruments not too difficult.

Tracklist:
01. Boston Modern Orchestra Project – Divertimento No. 1: I. Overture (02:37)
02. Boston Modern Orchestra Project – Divertimento No. 1: II. Humoresque (02:52)
03. Boston Modern Orchestra Project – Divertimento No. 1: III. Scene Change (01:08)
04. Boston Modern Orchestra Project – Divertimento No. 1: IV. Seascape (04:28)
05. Boston Modern Orchestra Project – Divertimento No. 1: V. Burlesque (04:34)
06. Boston Modern Orchestra Project – Gerald McBoing Boing (13:42)
07. Boston Modern Orchestra Project – Divertimento No. 2: I. Overture (01:39)
08. Boston Modern Orchestra Project – Divertimento No. 2: II. Pastorale I (01:51)
09. Boston Modern Orchestra Project – Divertimento No. 2: III. Pastorale II (01:24)
10. Boston Modern Orchestra Project – Divertimento No. 2: IV. Scherzino (Puppet Show) (01:43)
11. Boston Modern Orchestra Project – Divertimento No. 2: V. Dialogue (02:13)
12. Boston Modern Orchestra Project – Divertimento No. 2: VI. Dance Toccata (01:37)
13. Boston Modern Orchestra Project – Symphony Concertante: I. Fast, vigorously (09:48)
14. Boston Modern Orchestra Project – Symphony Concertante: II. Quietly (08:56)
15. Boston Modern Orchestra Project – Symphony Concertante: III. Fast, with energy (10:38)

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