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Eric Malmquist - Concerto for Six

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Perhaps unknown to many people, classical composers
often commit outright theft in writing their music. Ele-
ments ranging from single chords to orchestrations to
entire folk songs can be lifted and inserted into a piece.
Composers are apt to reuse good ideas when they come
across them, even if they didn’t come up with it in the first
place. While not exactly frowned upon, it’s hardly endear-
ing to find that a highly regarded composer plays fast and
loose with another’s music.

In the jazz world, something similar occurs, but in a re-
markably different context. Here, composers and impro-
visers will frequently quote parts of famous melodies and
solos by the Greats in their own works and improvisa-
tions. This is less theft than tribute.

I took my cue for Concerto for Six from the latter sen-
timents. In this piece I have borrowed both music and
concepts liberally, basically those that are my favorites.
Among the famous examples are hints of Stravinsky (who
is himself reputed to be the master thief among compos-
ers) and an entire organ prelude by J.S. Bach, Ich Ruf Zu
Dir, Herr Jesu. Less well known examples are bits of mu-
sic by my friends.

Among the concepts, I borrowed both from the baroque
and from jazz, especially the idea of a baroque concer-
to, not necessarily featuring soloists as setting different
groups of musicians against each other, and “trading 4’s”
with the drums and rest of the ensemble bantering with
each other in groups of four measures.

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from Physics for Listeners, track released October 20, 2010
Cello: Jill Kaeding
Piano: Alex Rowney
Violin: Ellen McSweeney
B flat Clarinet: James Falzone
Drums, Percussion: Frank Rosaly
Contrabass and Bass Clarinet: Keefe Jackson

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