Rendering 13. Music

The article “Maria Schneider takes a furtherstep towards ‘classical’ discipline on her new double album” was published by Ivan” on May, 28 2013. It discussed Maria Schneider's new double album.

            Speaking of this article, it’s necessary to say that Maria Schneider is a jazz musician who works on an orchestral. Also she is a master orchestrators whose handling of a big-band palette is as sophisticated as anything you’ll find in composers who write for standard orchestras.

            In addition, on her new double-album she’s taken a further step towards ‘classical’ discipline – though as she’s quick to point out, the music is still strongly informed by a jazz sensibility. Each CD offers what is in effect a "classical" song-cycle, for mezzo-soprano Dawn Upshaw and chamber orchestra. One sets poems by the Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, the other poems from the collection Winter Morning Walks by the American poet Ted Kooser.

            It’s important to point, the thing that about her music that challenged classics is that some of the songs have a groove, a driving forward that might come from jazz or a flamenco rhythm like the buleria.

            She really believes that in music colleges all classical musicians should have to take a course in time, meaning that they should have to play along with grooves played by tabla or whatever. Getting classical musicians to play in the groove was one big challenge; an even bigger one was raising the $200,000 needed to record two song-cycles with a star singer and two different orchestras. She couldn’t do it without the support of the Artistshare web-site, which started the whole crowd-sharing phenomenon. She dicided to build up a fan-base through the web-site which helped her to contribute big sums.

             To sum up, the result is something subtle and polished and suggestive. Winter Morning Walks is the gentler of the two, reflecting the rural quiet of Ted Kooser’s poems. The other cycle catches the very different mood of Drummond de Andrade’s songs.

            To conclude this article, I can say that this talented person like Maria Schneider is the person of her business. She wanted to realize her plans and she did the best things for that.