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Jonathan Elliott: Szellem

from Inventions, Interludes and Interjections by Duo Montagnard

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The music of Jonathan Elliott is embraced by audiences, performers, presenters. Notable for its communicative power and originality, Elliott’s works are performed and broadcast internationally. Elliott has received numerous awards and honors including fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the Ragdale Foundation, the New State Council on the Arts, the International Festival of New Music at Darmstadt, Centre Acanthes, the Aspen Music Festival, and the W.K. Rose Trust. He has won prizes from BMI, ASCAP, the Chicago Symphony, the American Composers Forum, Forum 91/UNESCO, and has been a nominee for the American Academy of Arts and Letters Music Awards. Elliott has been commissioned by leading concert artists and presenting organizations include PS 122, the Poetry Project at Saint Marks, the American Liszt Society, the American Composers Forum, the Jerome Foundation, the Monadnock Music Festival, the Center for Experimental Theater at Vassar College, among others. His music is published by Lux Nova Press and PBP Music and recorded on Koch International Classics and Centaur Records. A native of Philadelphia, Elliott studied with Annea Lockwood at Vassar and subsequently on a University Fellowship with Ralph Shapey and Shulamit Ran at the University of Chicago. He has lived in Brooklyn, NY, since 1988, where he is also active as a visual artist and is composer in residence and co-chair of the music department at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn Heights.

After successfully performing FRISS numerous times, Matt and Joe requested a companion piece. After much tinkering, I resurrected some remnants of material that I had written for FRISS and later set aside. SZELLEM is Hungarian for “ghosts.” In this short piece, fragments of melody appear as illusions and allusions, ghosts inspiring the atmospheric music that eventually morphs into a stumbling, off-kilter dance. Thanks to my family I have heard the rhythms and sounds of spoken and sung Hungarian since my earliest days. Some of my earliest musical memories involve these sounds. Thus this music creeps into my work easily, and I find it a rich source of fascination.

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from Inventions, Interludes and Interjections, released March 20, 2013

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Duo Montagnard (Joe Murphy, saxophone and Matt Slotkin, guitar) was formed in 2002 and has performed over 300 concerts in 50 states, eight Canadian provinces, and twenty countries on six continents. The duo has commissioned, premiered and recorded more than thirty works for guitar and saxophone. ... more

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