Dorian K Bandy
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Assoc Prof @mcgillu @schulichmusic / Musician, writer, lecturer / Thoughts on art, aesthetics, epistemology / author, MOZART THE PERFORMER @UChicagoPress
Montréal
Joined November 2015
I'm so happy to see this CD out in the world, just in time for Mozart's birthday. An experimental take on his String Duos inspired by my book. Featuring ornaments, historical arrangements, and @catherinecosbey Link below! @MozartCircleCN @schulichmusic @UChicagoPress @mcgillu
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"The single most important thing for a violinist to keep in mind while playing Beethoven's Violin Sonatas: we are, for much of the time, accompanying the piano." @mcgillu #violin professor Dorian Bandy explores Beethoven's Violin Sonatas. https://t.co/uJnzrSjAI6
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A few weekends ago, I attended a marathon performance of all of Beethoven's violin sonatas in a single concert, organized by one of my McGill colleagues as a studio project. Each of her students...
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New release! Mozart String Duos album featuring MSA Board member @DorianKBandy, with liner notes by MSA President Laurel Zeiss. Includes premieres of newly discovered K. 305 arrangements & La clemenza di Tito arias! Available now on all streaming platforms & CD via Leaf Music.
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Mozart's string duos are among his most inventive chamber works, and we try to play them as he might have wanted, with a degree of improvisation and ornamentation rarely heard today in his string music. I wrote about our interpretations for @violinist : https://t.co/GFlaw3fzan
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I've been a Mozart fanatic for as long as I can remember, and his music is absolutely central to my life -- outside my career as a violinist, that is. I've conducted his operas, symphonies, and...
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I'm happy to announce that my new Mozart recording, with the wonderful @catherinecosbey , can now be pre-saved on Spotify and Apple! https://t.co/Vsmo5HJjEZ The disc features the brilliant violin-viola duos as well as two premieres and lots of embellishments. Out in January!
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Listen to Mozart: String Duos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Dorian Komanoff Bandy, Catherine Cosbey.
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Martin Amis: "Money" In my early 20s it seemed like pure slapstick and farce; in my mid 30s I discovered that after the first hundred or so pages it becomes one of the most profound, poetic, redemptive artworks I've ever encountered.
What’s a book you love that was even better at second reading?
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With the great composers, especially Beethoven, my standing assumption is always that he's so *astronomically* smarter than I am, that things that look to me like possible mistakes are really just cases where I failed to figure out the actual thing he's after.
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Yes, if his goal is to do a simple sequence, a deviation is wrong. But what if his goal is to set up a sequence and then deviate? Empiricism is false; the artwork doesn't give an answer itself. 2/
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It's true in theory that if Beethoven can be wrong, there must be objective aesthetic criteria of some kind. I love @ernsterlanson 's argument. But in practice it's complicated Finding a 'mistake' in Beethoven could just mean that we misunderstood what he's up to. 1/
In Beethoven's sonata, opus 2 no. 1, there is a mistake in most editions in bar 76. The first note should be a Bb flat instead of Db flat. Otherwise, it violates the sequence that is set up starting from bar 73.
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Academic writing was livelier and so much more fun half a century ago. A hilarious (and true) paragraph by Robin Winks, c.1969, on evidence, observation, and the philosophy of history:
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It's sale week at @UChicagoPress , and this means that with the code EBOOK75, the e-edition of my Mozart book is just $10! https://t.co/AXuz5aZfed
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An innovative study of the ways performance influenced Mozart’s compositional style. We know Mozart as one of history’s greatest composers. But his contemporaries revered him as a multi-instrumen...
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How playful, how irreverent, how mercurial do you like your Mozart? Violinist @DorianKBandy explores this question and more in this delightful and engagin analysis (yes!) of Mozart’s Duos for #Violin and #Viola. @schulichmusic
https://t.co/PPxiq9Ybds
violinist.com
I've been a Mozart fanatic for as long as I can remember, and his music is absolutely central to my life -- outside my career as a violinist, that is. I've conducted his operas, symphonies, and...
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And although there's a fair amount of theory and analysis in this book, I try to keep the text accessible and engaging by focusing not only on how Mozart's music works, but on ways of *hearing* it with performance and theatricality firmly in mind.
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@UChicagoPress The text is structured like a theme and variations, with each chapter examining a different way in which Mozart's experience and priorities as a performer helped shape his written music.
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It's hard to believe that this moment has arrived...but my book on Mozart is now available for pre-order! @UChicagoPress
https://t.co/OCUfYvQ3EM
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We know Mozart as one of history’s greatest composers. But his contemporaries revered him as a multi-instrumentalist, a dazzling improviser, and the foremost keyboard virtuoso of his time. When he...
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And I just finished the most fun, most humane style guide I've ever read. (Though the third/fourth editions of Richard Lanham's "Revising Prose" are a very close runner-up!)
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(But I'll admit that I was annoyed by the novel's politics, and the way they detracted from the actual matters at hand--regret, friendship, the forking paths of life, etc. I enjoyed the book *despite*, rather than because, of the stance it takes on the outside world.)
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