Joanna Bruzdowicz, the Polish-French composer whose wide-reaching work included several collaborations with Agnès Varda, has died at the age of 78.
Her family confirmed to Deadline that Bruzdowicz had passed away peacefully at her music studio in the French Pyrenees.
“The shock of her departure is so great and so sudden, it seems impossible to process our loss as a family,” her son Jörg Tittel commented. “We can take some comfort in knowing that she will continue talking to us through her music. I hope that her untimely departure will lead to more people discovering her seminal work.”
Born in Warsaw, Bruzdowicz was a child prodigy and wrote her first concerto at age 6. She studied at the Warsaw Music High School, at the State Higher School of Music, and earned her M.A. in 1966.
Receiving a scholarship from the French government, she continued her studies in Paris and became a student of Nadia Boulanger,...
Her family confirmed to Deadline that Bruzdowicz had passed away peacefully at her music studio in the French Pyrenees.
“The shock of her departure is so great and so sudden, it seems impossible to process our loss as a family,” her son Jörg Tittel commented. “We can take some comfort in knowing that she will continue talking to us through her music. I hope that her untimely departure will lead to more people discovering her seminal work.”
Born in Warsaw, Bruzdowicz was a child prodigy and wrote her first concerto at age 6. She studied at the Warsaw Music High School, at the State Higher School of Music, and earned her M.A. in 1966.
Receiving a scholarship from the French government, she continued her studies in Paris and became a student of Nadia Boulanger,...
- 11/9/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Collecting Masters of Cinema spine numbers 52 to 59 this new box set features eight films from the late period in Kenji Mizoguchi’s career, the years 1951-1956. Mizoguchi passed away in 1956 and this selection of films represent a wonderful selection of Mizoguchi’s most widely acclaimed work.
Each film is given its own disc and there are four highly detailed booklets offering information and essays on the films. Each film also has an introduction by the respected critic Tony Rayns and an accompanying trailer. The introductions are informative and offer a good introduction to the significance of each film but are perhaps best viewed after the film rather than before (if you have not already seen the film in question) as they tend to reveal a lot of details about the plots.
The transfers are mixed but all impressive considering the difficulty in acquiring pristine prints of some of these films.
Each film is given its own disc and there are four highly detailed booklets offering information and essays on the films. Each film also has an introduction by the respected critic Tony Rayns and an accompanying trailer. The introductions are informative and offer a good introduction to the significance of each film but are perhaps best viewed after the film rather than before (if you have not already seen the film in question) as they tend to reveal a lot of details about the plots.
The transfers are mixed but all impressive considering the difficulty in acquiring pristine prints of some of these films.
- 2/7/2011
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
26. Fennesz: Endless Summer (Mego, 2001)
Finally, an album the Futurists would approve of! Arguably the first masterpiece of glitch electronica, which perturbs ambient flow with interjections of what sound like electronic mishaps (“glitches”), Endless Summer is mellow yet disturbing, a milestone in '00s’ electronica’s greater acceptance of more abstract, non-dance-oriented music that’s as avant-garde in intent and sound as anything the classical avant-garde has created (though often modern electronica artists are strongly influenced by the old-guard avant-gardists such as Pierre Schaeffer, Bernard Parmegiani, and Tod Dockstader). There’s actually a lot of variety on this album, ranging from the manipulated solo keyboard of “Before I Leave” (its vibrato beating quickly) to looped soft rock calling to mind the Beach Boys to looped drones that highlight the glitches’ rhythmic pattern in a quiet way. This particular Fennesz album is listed here because it was such a trendsetter, but I...
Finally, an album the Futurists would approve of! Arguably the first masterpiece of glitch electronica, which perturbs ambient flow with interjections of what sound like electronic mishaps (“glitches”), Endless Summer is mellow yet disturbing, a milestone in '00s’ electronica’s greater acceptance of more abstract, non-dance-oriented music that’s as avant-garde in intent and sound as anything the classical avant-garde has created (though often modern electronica artists are strongly influenced by the old-guard avant-gardists such as Pierre Schaeffer, Bernard Parmegiani, and Tod Dockstader). There’s actually a lot of variety on this album, ranging from the manipulated solo keyboard of “Before I Leave” (its vibrato beating quickly) to looped soft rock calling to mind the Beach Boys to looped drones that highlight the glitches’ rhythmic pattern in a quiet way. This particular Fennesz album is listed here because it was such a trendsetter, but I...
- 1/8/2010
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
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