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Chorus at The Corner - A Joyfull Noise

by Philip Corner (IDA 054 - 2023)

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Halleluja! 03:51
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I love you 02:57
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Crucifixion 02:32
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Philip Corner

CHORUS AT THE CORNER - A Joyfull Noise
Music for Choir and Children Choir


CORO ARCANTO
with
PICCOLO CORO ANGELICO
CORO PER FUTILI MOTIVI
SAN GIORGIO IN CORO

conducted by
Giovanna Giovannini


music and lyrics by
Philip Corner

except

- track 3 and 12 traditional Italian folk song

- track 6 and 9 (Scultura sonora) music by Giovanna Giovannini

- track 14 music by Barnabas McKyes (1775-1835), lyrics by Samuel Wesley Sr. (1662-1735)

- track 16 deconstructed by Massimo Simonini


world premiere recording

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CORO ARCANTO

Marta Abatematteo, Marisa Anconelli, Lidia Atti, Paola Benni, Valerio Bertozzi, Alfredo Gustavo Boz, Mauro Caldari, Daniele Cavallo, Antonella Cecchetto, Micaela Cecchetto, Cristina Cipriani, Lucia Cutti, Franca Chiesa, Bruna De Nisi, Giorgio Franceschi, Doriana Gallina, Simonetta Gamberini, Nadia Giogoli, Gloria Giovannini, Gloria Guerra, Simona Iacono, Kim Mane, Anna Mele, Elisabetta Miranda, Rita Paradisi, Sonia Piccinini, Garina Piscitello, Anastasia Reabcovschi, Milli Rubbi, Cinzia Russillo, Silvia Salfi, Fabio Santachiara, Antonella Schiassi -
soloists: Marta Abatematteo, Marisa Anconelli, Silvia Salfi, Anna Mele, Anastasia Reabcovschi

PICCOLO CORO ANGELICO (Children Choir)
Elvira Apolito, Giulia Brugnoli, Greta Bünger Gadale, Amalia Giuditta Cantaluppi, Olga Cau, Agata Celli, Marco D’Ercole, Mara Limpens, Miro Montanari, Bianca Moruzzi, Luigi Moruzzi, Lorenzo Salvage, Sofia Schembri, Romeo Celeste Simonini, Alice Tubertini, Elisa Zerbo

CORO PER FUTILI MOTIVI
Stephanie Chenevel, Anna Cominardi, Laura Comuzzi, Rita Levoni Bemposti, Veronica Mormile, Daniela Preziuso, Alice Restani, Marta Serrani, Emma Troude, Dora Vedova, Giulia Villani

SAN GIORGIO IN CORO
Renzo Arsani, Grazia Campana, Fiorenzo Cinti, Sandra Orsoni, Nadia Poggi, Iolanda Scudu, Maria Grazia Sivieri, Fabrizio Vianale

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40 pages booklet with photos and texts (in english and italian) by Philip Corner

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made with the support of the Emilia-Romagna Region within the scope of the Music Law L.R. 2/2018 - year 2023

realizzato con il sostegno della Regione Emilia-Romagna nell’ambito della Legge Musica L.R. 2/2018 - anno 2023


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Produced by Massimo Simonini


Recorded by Roberto Salvati at AngelicA | Centro di Ricerca Musicale - Teatro San Leonardo, April 12 and 13, 2018, during the “Season 2017>2018 - fourth year”, Bologna, Italy

Mixed in April and May 2023 and Mastered in November 2023 by Bob Drake at Studio Midi-Pyrénées, La Borde Basse, Caudeval, France


Music and editorial coordination: Silvia Tarozzi

Editorial research and supervision: Walter Rovere


Design: Massimo Golfieri, Concetta Nasone


i dischi di angelica (IDA 054 - 2023)


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Born in 1933, with a career spanning over 65 years, the American composer Philip Corner has explored the most diverse artistic and musical expressions: as a pianist and trombonist, he performed historic and contemporary authors such as Ives, Cage, Cacioppo, Hellerman (in 1963 he also took part in the first integral performance of Vexations by Satie curated by Cage in New York).

As a composer and performer, he was a member of Fluxus (defining with his Piano Activities the most iconic performance of the movement, albeit in the “over the top” rendition by Maciunas, Williams, Vostell, Paik, Higgins, Patterson and Knowles in Wiesbaden in 1962); but also (between 1962 and 1965) of Judson Dance Theatre, composing music for dance and theatre pieces by Lucinda Childs, Yvonne Rainer, Living Theatre, etc;
in 1963 he co-founded the Tone Roads Chamber Ensemble with Malcolm Goldstein and James Tenney; in 1972, with Julie Winter, the ensemble Sounds out of Silent Spaces (at whose performances took part Annea Lockwood, Alison Knowles, Ruth Anderson, Tom Johnson...); and in 1975, with Barbara Benary and Daniel Goode, the Gamelan Son of Lion.

He experimented with both “action music” and “meditative music”, electronic or concrete montages, proto-plunderphonic collages, graphic scores, verbal philosophical/poetic instructions, contemporary gamelans, extreme minimalism (in 1977 in New York his Elementals lasted 123 uninterrupted hours on a single note, played in turn by guests spanning from Beth Anderson, to Cage to Paik); but he also composed for string quartets, chamber music ensembles, orchestras…

As a visual artist he created countless assemblages, calligraphies, collages, drawings, paintings and objects made of various materials, showcased in museums and collections around the world.

Corner has been living in Italy since 1992, and he presented several projects at AngelicA (amongst which an unprecedented trio with Joan La Barbara and Alvin Curran paying homage to Cage), but perhaps the most peculiar one has been Chorus at the Corner – A Joyfull Noise, a commission entirely dedicated to his compositions for choir.

A concert made possible by the availability of two “resident” choirs at the festival:

Arcanto, a group that has worked for AngelicA since 2004 on projects with Giovanna Marini (such as the cd releases Te Deum per un amico and Le ceneri di Gramsci), Alvin Curran and John Duncan - expanded in this occasion by two guest choirs, Coro per Futili Motivi and San Giorgio in Coro; and Piccolo Coro Angelico, a children’s choir devoted to vocal and artistic research founded in 2012, for which several musicians have composed over the years, such as Alvin Curran, Malcolm Goldstein and Philip Corner.

Regarding one of his compositions from 1962 significantly titled Lovely Music, Corner stated that he always had a predilection for the “beauty of sounds”, never having believed that musical forms need to identify with deliberately harsh, chaotic and disjointed sounds in order to be considered advanced.

In his liner notes, the author expresses his admiration for the “American primitives” at the turn of the 19th century as the main inspiration for the pieces performed at the AngelicA concert (dating between 1970 and 2018): like Barnabas McKyes, whose Crucifixion (“a unique masterpiece”) is performed here by Arcanto, or The Sacred Harp, a collection of sacred songs from New England dating back to 1844 - pieces whose “open fifths, strong rather than primitive, and occasionally going parallel in violation of one of the most basic rules of academic theory, brings this music, technically, expressively, spiritually, close to our own modernisms.”

Techniques that the composer also borrowed to harmonise “in old American style” an old Tyrolean folk song, “In cima ai monticelli” (performed in both the Italian and English version).

Even his choral pieces revisit “in slightly new ways” the simplest forms of canon such as the rounds; Corner’s research on this project was focused on the “unsurpassed”, “perfect and suggestive simplicity” of Catch that Catch Can (a collection of “catches, rounds and canons” by John Hilton dating back to 1652) or of the 1800s nursery rhyme Row Row Row Your Boat; and on a social dimension of making music, “sessions where all can learn ‘by ear’ and spontaneously sing-along” - as the subheading for Social Harmony, the collection of scores from 1798 containing the above-mentioned Crucifixion, stated already: “Social Harmony, Containing First, The Rudiments of Psalmody Made Easy. Second, A Collection of Modern Music, Calculated for the Use of Singing Schools and Worshiping Assemblies”.

Although started very late (the first LP under his name was released in 1983, when he was 50), the documentation on record of Corner’s work has seen an exponential growth in the new millennium, but, thanks to its content, this latest cd represents a unique example amongst his production, which amounts today to over 70 titles.


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Classe 1933, l'americano Philip Corner ha esplorato nel corso di 65 anni di carriera le espressioni artistiche e musicali più diverse: come pianista e trombonista, ha interpretato autori storici o suoi contemporanei, come Ives, Cage, Cacioppo, Hellerman (nel '63 fu anche tra gli esecutori della prima performance integrale delle Vexations di Satie curata da Cage a New York).

Come compositore e performer, ha fatto parte di Fluxus (firmando con le sue Piano Activities la performance più iconica del movimento, nell'esecuzione "sopra le righe" di Maciunas, Williams, Vostell, Paik, Higgins, Patterson e Knowles a Wiesbaden nel '62); ma anche (tra '62 e '65) del Judson Dance Theatre, componendo musiche per la danza ed il teatro di Lucinda Childs, Yvonne Rainer, Living Theatre, ecc; nel '63 ha co-fondato inoltre il Tone Roads Chamber Ensemble con Malcolm Goldstein e James Tenney; nel '72, con Julie Winter, l’ensemble Sounds out of Silent Spaces (alle cui performance parteciparono Annea Lockwood, Alison Knowles, Ruth Anderson, Tom Johnson...); e nel '75, con Barbara Benary e Daniel Goode, i Gamelan Son of Lion.

Ha sperimentato "musica d'azione" o meditativa, montaggi elettronici o concreti, collage proto-plunderphonici, partiture grafiche, istruzioni verbali filosofico/poetiche, gamelan contemporanei, minimalismo estremo (la sua Elementals del '77 a New York durò 123 ore ininterrotte su una sola nota, suonata a turno da ospiti che andavano da Beth Anderson a Cage e Paik); ma ha scritto anche per quartetti d'archi, ensemble da camera, orchestra...

E come artista visivo, ha creato moltissimi assemblaggi, calligrafie, collage, disegni, dipinti e oggetti in materiali diversi, conservati in musei e collezioni in tutto il mondo.

Dal 1992 Corner risiede in Italia, e ha presentato diversi progetti ad AngelicA (tra cui un inedito trio con Joan La Barbara e Alvin Curran in omaggio a Cage), ma forse il più particolare tra questi è stato Chorus at the Corner – A Joyfull Noise, commissione interamente dedicata alle sue composizioni per coro.

Un concerto reso possibile dalla disponibilità di due cori "residenti" del festival:

Arcanto, formazione che fin dal 2004 ha lavorato per AngelicA a progetti realizzati con Giovanna Marini (vedi i cd Te Deum per un amico e Le ceneri di Gramsci), Alvin Curran e John Duncan – e per questa occasione aumentato da due cori ospiti, Coro per Futili Motivi e San Giorgio in Coro; e il Piccolo Coro Angelico, un coro infantile indirizzato alla ricerca vocale e artistica fondato nel 2012, per il quale hanno scritto negli anni numerosi compositori, tra cui Alvin Curran, Malcolm Goldstein e Philip Corner.

A proposito di una sua composizione del ’62 significativamente intitolata Lovely Music, Corner commentò di avere sempre avuto una predilezione per la “bellezza dei suoni”, non avendo mai ritenuto che le forme musicali per essere avanzate dovessero identificarsi con sonorità programmaticamente aspre, caotiche, e disordinate.

Nelle note di copertina, l’autore cita come ispirazione preminente per i brani eseguiti nel concerto di AngelicA (datati tra 1970 e 2018), la sua ammirazione per i “primitivi americani” a cavallo dell’800: come Barnabas McKyes, la cui Crucifixion (“un capolavoro unico”) è qui eseguita da Arcanto, o The Sacred Harp, raccolta di canti sacri del New England del 1844 - brani le cui “caratteristiche quinte aperte, forti piuttosto che primitive, e occasionalmente parallele, in violazione di una delle regole più basilari della teoria musicale accademica, avvicinano questa musica, tecnicamente, espressivamente e spiritualmente, ai nostri modernismi”.

Tecniche che il compositore ha preso in prestito anche per armonizzare “in vecchio stile americano” una vecchia canzone folk tirolese, “In cima ai monticelli” (eseguita in due versioni, italiana e inglese).

Anche i brani corali a sua firma rivisitano “in modi leggermente nuovi” le forme di canone più semplici come i rounds; la ricerca di Corner si è diretta in questo progetto verso l’“insuperabile”, “perfetta e suggestiva semplicità” di Catch that Catch Can (una collezione di “catches, rounds and canons” di John Hilton del 1652) o della filastrocca per bambini ottocentesca Row Row Row Your Boat; e di una dimensione sociale del far musica, “incontri in cui tutti possono imparare a orecchio, e cantare subito assieme spontaneamente” - come diceva già il sottotitolo di Social Harmony, la raccolta di spartiti del 1798 contenente anche la citata Crucifixion: “Armonia sociale, contenente, in primo luogo, i rudimenti della salmodia resi facili. Secondo, una collezione di musica moderna, progettata per l'uso delle scuole di canto e delle assemblee di culto.”

Anche se iniziata con grande ritardo (il primo LP uscito a suo nome risale al 1983, quando aveva 50 anni), la documentazione discografia di Corner ha avuto un’esplosione nel nuovo millennio, ma questo cd si presenta, per i suoi contenuti, come un autentico unicum tra le sue produzioni, che hanno superato ad oggi i 70 titoli.


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Label : "i dischi di angelica” IDA 054 - 2023

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released December 13, 2023

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