Stretching across up two full CDs and accompanied by a 10-page booklet with new liner notes by Mary Jane Leach, these performances are absolutely stunning and impossible to recommend enough.ĭuring his tragically brief life, Julius Eastman burned like a wild fire. High among these is Sub Rosa’s latest, Three Extended Pieces for Four Pianos, featuring brand new recording of three seminal works composed by Eastman between 19 - Evil N*gger (1979), Gay Guerilla (1980) and Crazy N*gger (1980), realized live in 2019 by Nicolas Horvath, Melaine Dalibert, Stephane Ginsburgh, and Wilhem Latchoumia, at the Festival Musica in Strasbourg, France. Within this gathering momentum, numerous ensembles at the vanguard of contemporary experimental music - Wild Up, So Percussion, Kukuruz Quartet, Apartment House - have recently begun issuing albums of new and exciting interpretations of the composer’s work. attention has finally come his way, placing him at the centre of the consciousness of a new generation of listeners. Largely thanks to a series of archival releases attending to his work - New World Records' Unjust Malaise and The Zürich Concert, Frozen Reeds' Femenine, Blume Editions' The N*gger Series, etc. A celebrated figure within the New York experimental music scene during the 1970s and '80s, over the years following his untimely death in 1990 he and his work drifted into sinful neglect. Ensemble, Tim Griffin of the Kitchen, Paul Tai of New World Records, the Bowerbird team (Heather Mease, Colin Manjoney, Angus MacDonald, Kyle Blessing), Arin Ahlum Hanson, and countless others that contributed in some many ways to this project.Over the last decade and a half, it’s been incredible to witness the ascending star of the composer Julius Eastman. Thank you to Gina Renzi and the staff of The Rotunda, Aaron Levy and the team at Slought, to Petr Kotik of the S.E.M.
Thank you to the all of the participants in our October 2015 workshop: Thomas, Choinacky, Renee Levine Packer, Ryan Wayne Dohoney, Kyle Gann, Mary Jane Leach, Jace Clayton, Tracie Morris,Kimberly Drew, Jerrell Jackson, James Ijames, chukwumaa, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, André Carrington, Chris McIntyre, Kyle Austin, and Stanford Thompson.
John Bewley, music librarian and archivist at the University of Buffalo (SUNY) music library, who's tireless work with the Eastman archive ensures that generations will have access to this extraordinary artist. We look forward to working with you for years to come.Īnd an enormous thank you to Dr. Thank you to Gerry Eastman and Peter Thall of the Eastman Estate for believing in the work we are doing and allowing us unparalleled access to research and source materials. Thank you to Jan Williams for his insights into the music and showing us around Buffalo.
Thank you to Reneé Levine Packer for the deeply researched biography and the personal accounts of Julius in Buffalo. Thank you to Mary Jane Leach for leading the search for Eastman's lost work, and for generous sharing of time and information as we continue in her footsteps. Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental is a project of Bowerbird, a Philadelphia based non profit dedicated to presenting experimental music and related art forms. That Which Is Fundamental is the first comprehensive examination of Eastman's legacy to work alongside the Eastman Estate, an organization led by Gerry Eastman to gather together, organize, preserve, disseminate, and generally further the work of his brother, Julius. Events include four major concerts - including several modern “premieres” of recently recovered works - and a multi-disciplinary exhibition featuring archival materials and work by ten contemporary artists who engage with Eastman and the fragmented nature of his legacy. The culmination of more than three years of research, this first iteration of this project will take place in Philadelphia in May 2017. Julius Eastman: That Which is Fundamental is an interdisciplinary, multi-artist project that examines the life, work, and resurgent influence of Julius Eastman, a gay African American composer and performer who was active internationally in the 1970s and 80s, but who died homeless at the age of 49, leaving an incomplete but compelling collection of scores and recordings.
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