Malcolm Goldstein

Malcolm Goldstein in 2007

Malcolm Goldstein (born March 27, 1936 in Brooklyn / New York ) is an American composer, violinist and improvisation musician.

Live and act

Goldstein studied from 1952 to 1959 at Columbia University , where he was Otto Luening's composition student . In the mid-1960s he took private violin lessons with Antonio Miranda in New York City. From 1962 to 1964 he was a violinist at the Judson Dance Theater in New York. He also performed at the New York Festival of the Avant Garde and the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in the 1960s . He then worked mainly as a soloist and toured Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA.

In 1963 he founded the Tone Roads Chamber Ensemble with Philip Corner and James Tenney , a new music group that was active until 1970. In the 1970s he was head of the New Music Ensemble of Dartmouth College in the 1990s, he regularly led the members of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony existing Ensemble for New Music at Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt.

In addition, Goldstein was active as a teacher, u. a. at Columbia University (1961-65), the New School for Social Research (1963-65 and 1967-69), the New England Conservatory of Music (1965-67), Dickinson College in Carlisle (1969-71), the Goddard College in Plainfield (1972-74), Dartmouth College (1976-78) and Bowdoin College in Brunswick (1978-82).

Commissioned by the Charles Ives Society , he worked on the critical edition of the composer's Second Symphony and the Second String Quartet.

"Espace ouvert" (2007) is a 90-minute documentary by Thierry Collins about Malcolm Goldstein and his music.

In recent years Goldstein has worked with the Chinese Pipa soloist Liu Fang and then in 2010 produced a double CD entitled "Along the Way".

Works

• Majority - 1964 for violin, viola, cello and piano, 1964
• Illuminations from Fantastic Gardens (text by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Louise Varèse ) for three to five-part mixed choir, 1964
• Overture to Fantastic Gardens (vocalise) for mixed choir and piano, 1964
• death: act or fact of dying for mixed choir and speaker, 1967
• State of the Nation , sound installation for tape and audience, 1967
• frog pond at dusk for instrumentalists, 1970
• upon the string, within the bow ... breathing for strings, 1972
• Yosha's Morning Song , Vokalize , 1973
• Yosha's Morning Song Extended for instrumentalists, 1974
• Hues of the Golden Ascending for flutes, 1979
• Marin's Song, Illuminated , stage work for voices and instrumentalists (also for violin, metal objects, tapes and slide projections), 1979–81
• a breaking of vessels, becoming song , concert for flute and orchestra, 1981
• The Seasons: Vermont for instrumentalists and tape, 1980–82
• Jade Mountain Soundings for a string instrument, 1983
• Of Sky Bright Mushrooms Bursting in My Head for three wind instruments, violin, piano and percussion, 1983
• Cascades of the Brook: Bachwasserfall , Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, 1984
• my feet is tired but my soul is rested for violin, 1985
• ... that hung like fire on heaven for English horn, bass clarinet, alto and tenor saxophone, horn, trombone, cello, double bass, piano, drums and tape, 1985
• Soweto Stomp for instrumentalists, 1985
• The Edges of Sound within , radio production, 1985
• qernerâq: our breath as bones for violin and voice, 1986
• The Life Cycles of Stones , visual-acoustic installation, 1987
• Ishi / timechangingspaces , radio production, 1988
• Sounding the Fragility of Line (in memoriam Morton Feldman) for violin, 1988
• Ishi / 'man waxati' , 1988
• through deserts of time , string quartet, 1990
• Topography of a Sound Mind , radio production, 1991
• gentle rain preceding mushrooms (in memoriam John Cage ), Vokalize for violin and voice, 1992
• Violin Solos the (Whole) World Plays, or the 'Third' World within Us , visual-acoustic installation, 1992
• Aparición con vida , play by Marjorie Agosin for violin and voice, 1993
• between (two) spaces , Rundfunkproduktion, 1993
• a convergence of distances for dancers and players, 1994
• ... out of changes: Keeping Still / Mountain , Vokalise for voice and instrumentalists, 1994
• an enactment of absence for violin and piano, 1995
• Configurations in Darkness (improvisations on a folksong from Bosnia and Hercegovina) for ensemble, 1995
• as it were for violin, double bass and percussion, 1996
• Attempt at a thorough violin school , radio production, 1996
• Regarding the Tower of Babel for instrumentalists, 1997
• Divisions of Ground for three wind or string instruments, piano and two percussionists, 1998
• it were another for violin and voice, 1998
• as it were, another , broadcast production, 1998
• Hardscrabble Songs for Violin and Voice, 2000
• A New Song of many faces for In These Times , string quartet, 2002
• where are we going when we're standing still, looking backwards ?! for violin, 2002
• Two Silences for instrumentalists, 2003
• Two Silences , 2003
• what can be said of our differences? for eight to 20 instrumentalists, 2005
• a cultivation of field (for Morton Feldman ) for orchestra, 2005
• a meditation / responses to Charles Ives' 'Unanswered Question' (texts from the questions “why is life like this” ?, “pourquoi est-ce que la vie comme ça”?) for violin and voice, 2006

Discography

• The Seasons: Vermont (Folkways, 1982)
• Joe Morris , Lowell Davidson , Malcolm Goldstein, Butch Morris Graffiti in Two Parts ( RogueArt , 1985, ed. 2012)
• Sounding the New Violin (What Next? Recordings, 1991)
• d'c 2 - Goldstein plays Goldstein ( Dacapo Bremen, 1993)
• Malcolm Goldstein / Philippe Micol / Franz Aeschbacher Live in Montreal and Toronto (Arche Z, 1996)
• Live at fire in the valley , 1997
• Malcolm Goldstein / Peter Niklas Wilson : Monsun (True Muze, 1998)
• John Cage (Performers: Malcolm Goldstein, Matthias Kaul ) Variations II Eight Whiskus Music For Two Ryoanji ( WERGO , 1999)
• Christian Wolff (Performers: Malcolm Goldstein, Matthias Kaul) Bread and Roses (WERGO, 2003)
• Hardscrabble Songs (In Situ, 2004)
• A Sounding of Sources ( New World Records 2008; with Radu Malfatti , Philippe Micol, Philippe Racine, Beat Schneider)
• Barre Phillips / Catherine Jauniaux / Malcolm Goldstein Birds Abide (Victo 2010)
• Malcolm Goldstein / Liu Fang Along the Way , 2010
• Joe Morris, Lowell Davidson, Butch Morris and Malcolm Goldstein Graffiti in Two Parts (RogueART, 2012)
• Full Circle Sounding (Kye, 2015)

Web links

• Malcolm Goldstein's website
• Malcolm Goldstein at the Living Composers Project

Individual evidence

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