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Noah Creshevsky

January 01, 1970

Noah Creshevsky (January 31, 1945 – December 3, 2020) was a composer and electronic musician born in Rochester, New York. He used the term hyperrealism to describe his work.[1]

Biography edit

Noah Creshevsky was born Gary Cohen in Rochester, New York, to Joseph and Sylvia Cohen. He changed his surname to Creshevsky in order to honor his maternal grandparents. At the same time he also changed his first name because, he said, "I never felt like a Gary."[2] He studied in the preparatory division of the Eastman School of Music from the age of 6 until 1961, then earned a B.F.A. degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1966, studying with Lukas Foss.[2]

Trained in composition by Nadia Boulanger in Paris and Luciano Berio at the Juilliard School (earning a master's degree in 1968),[2] Creshevsky lived and worked in New York beginning in 1966.[3] There, he founded the New York Improvisation Ensemble.[2] He taught at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York for 31 years, serving as Director of the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music (BC-CCM) from 1994 to 1999.[4] He also served on the faculties of Juilliard and Hunter College, and was a visiting professor at Princeton University during the 1984 academic year.[2]

Creshevsky began composing electronic music in 1971. His musical vocabulary used bits of words, songs, and instrumental sounds. By fusing opposites—such as music and noise, comprehensible and incomprehensible vocal sources–Creshevsky attempted to make music that sounded both Western and non-Western, ancient and modern, familiar and unfamiliar.[5]

This alliance of opposites is heard both in his text-sound compositions (1973-1986)—Pop Art works in which extreme and unpredictable juxtapositions of iconographic sonic materials establish links between music and society [6] —and in later pieces, in which the integration of electronic and acoustic sources and processes “creates virtual ‘superperformers’ by using the sounds of traditional instruments pushed past the capacities of human performance.” [7] Creshevsky’s most recent compositions are examples of "Hyperrealism", a term he uses to describe an electroacoustic language constructed from sounds found in our shared environment that he handles in ways that are exaggerated or intense.

Collections of Creshevsky's scores and sound recordings are held at the music libraries of Northwestern University.[8] and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts[9]

Creshevsky, who died of bladder cancer, was interred on Hart Island at his own request. Usually burials on Hart Island are for the homeless or poor and unclaimed bodies. According to his husband David Sachs (a teacher and book editor who lived with Creshevsky for 42 years), Creshevsky intended to protest the trappings and cost of traditional funerals.[10][11]

Discography edit

CDs edit

Man & Superman (1992) Centaur Records CRC 2126

  • Variations (1987)
  • Electric String Quartet (1988)
  • Memento Mori (1989)
  • Electric Partita (1990)
  • Talea (1991)

Who (1993) Centaur Records CRC 2476

  • Fanfare (1998)
  • Sha (1996)
  • Twice (1993)
  • Who (1995)
  • et puis (1998)
  • Gone Now (1995)
  • Breathless (1997)
  • Nude Ascending (1999)

Auxesis Electronic Music by Charles Amirkhanian and Noah Creshevsky (1995) Centaur Records CRC 2194

  • Politics as Usual (Amirkhanian)
  • Borrowed Time (Creshevsky—1992)
  • Private Lives (Creshevsky—1993)
  • Coup d'état (Creshevsky—1994)

Hyperrealism (2003) Mutable Music Mutable 17516-2

  • Canto di Malavita (2002)
  • Jacob’s Ladder (1999)
  • Vol-au-vent (2002)
  • Hoodlum Priest (2002)
  • Novella (2000)
  • Ossi di morte (1997)
  • Jubilate (2001)
  • Born Again (2003)

The Tape Music of Noah Creshevsky, 1971-1992 (2004) EM Records (Japan) EM 1042CD

  • Strategic Defense Initiative (1986)
  • Highway (1979)
  • Circuit (1971)
  • Drummer (1985)
  • Great Performances (1978)
  • Sonata (1980)
  • In Other Words (Portrait of John Cage) (1976)
  • Cantiga (1992)

To Know and Not to Know (2007) Tzadik Tzadik-8036

  • Red Carpet (2007)
  • Psalmus XXIII (2003)
  • To Know and Not to Know (2005)
  • Once (2004)
  • Chamber Concerto (1998)
  • Jubilate (2001)
  • Sequenza (for trombone) (2004)
  • Independence Day (1997)
  • Free Speech (2006)

Favorite Encores, Music of Noah Creshevsky and If, Bwana, (2008) Pogus Pogus 21049-2

  • Mari Kimura Redux (Creshevsky)
  • Xyloxings (If, Bwana)
  • Shadow of a Doubt (Creshevsky)
  • Scraping Scrafide (If, Bwana)
  • Intrada (Creshevsky)
  • Cicada #4: Version Barnard (If, Bwana)
  • Favorite Encores (Creshevsky)

The Twilight of the Gods (2010) Tzadik Tzadik-8069

  • Götterdämmerung
  • Omaggio
  • Three Minute Waltzes
  • Brother Tom
  • Estancia
  • I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
  • La Belle Dame Sans Merci
  • Happy Ending

Rounded With A Sleep (2011) Pogus Pogus 21063-2

  • Rounded With A Sleep
  • La Sonnambula
  • Lisa Barnard Redux
  • What If
  • Tomomi Adachi Redux II
  • The Kindness of Strangers
  • In Memoriam

The Four Seasons (2013) Tzadik Tzadik-8097

  • i. summer
  • ii. interlude 1
  • iii. autumn
  • iv. interlude 2
  • v. winter
  • vi. interlude 3
  • vii. spring

Hyperrealist Music, 2011-2015 (2015) EM Records (Japan) EM 1140CD

  • 1. Pulp Fiction (2014)
  • 2. Tomomi Adachi Redux I (2011)
  • 3. Quaestio (2014)
  • 4. Orchestral Variations (2013)
  • 5. Full Fathom Five (2011)
  • 6. La Valse (2013)
  • 7. You Are Here (2015)

Sleeping Awake (2019) Open Space Open Space CD 37

  • Electric String Quartet (1988)
  • Passacaglia (2018)
  • Sequenza (for trombone) (2004)
  • Sleeping Awake (2017)

Compilation albums edit

LPs edit

  • Circuit (1971) In Other Words (1976) - Opus One No. 45
  • Broadcast (1973) Great Performances (1978) - Opus One No. 47
  • Chaconne (1974) Portrait of Rudy Perez (1978) Highway (1979) - Opus One No. 50
  • Sonata (1980) - Opus One No. 58
  • Celebration (1983) - Opus One No. 101
  • Drummer (1985) Strategic Defense Initiative (1986) - Opus One No. 111
  • Reanimator (2018) - Orange Milk Records No. 99

Dedications edit

Articles and reviews edit

  • "STUFF MUZAK #1: A (VERY) SOFT FOCUS ON HYPERREALIST MUSIC" by Dwight Pavlovic, Decoder Magazine, June 7, 2016
  • "A Language We Already Understand: Noah Creshevsky's Hyperrealism" By Dennis Báthory-Kitsz, NewMusicBox, June 13, 2007
  • "When drawing from preexisting works, how do you balance legal and moral obligations with the potential to create new art?" by Noah Creshevsky, NewMusicBox November 1, 2004

References edit

  1. ^ Báthory-Kitsz, Dennis (June 13, 2007). . NewMusicBox. New Music Usa. Archived from the original on December 3, 2020. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e Smith, Steve (December 12, 2020). "Noah Creshevsky, Composer of 'Hyperreal' Music, Dies at 75". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 17, 2023.
  3. ^ http://www.voxnovus.com/composer/Noah_Creshevsky.htm Biography on Vox Novus
  4. ^ http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/spotlite/news/index.php?link=102405 Brooklyn College City University of New York
  5. ^ Creshevsky, Noah. “Hyperrealism, Hyperdrama, Superperformers and Open Palette.” Arcana II, John Zorn, editor. Hips Road / Granary Books, forthcoming.
  6. ^ Richard Kostelanetz, Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes, a cappella books, 1993, pp. 49-50.
  7. ^ http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0427,gann,54855,22.html, Kyle Gann, Village Voice, July 6, 2004
  8. ^ http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/archival-collections/creshevsky.pdf Finding aid to the Noah Creshevsky Collection at Northwestern University
  9. ^ http://www.nypl.org/archives/3408 New York Public Library
  10. ^ Jordan, Mary (July 2, 2022). "She died in a Manhattan penthouse but was buried on an island for the poor". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 3, 2022.
  11. ^ "It's not a place many people choose to be buried — but it was perfect for him". WKU Public Radio | The Public Radio Service of Western Kentucky University. October 17, 2023. Retrieved November 17, 2023.

Further reading edit

  • Hitchcock, H. Wiley: 'Music in the United States Prentice Hall, 1988, p. 313.

External links edit

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Noah Creshevsky January 31 1945 December 3 2020 was a composer and electronic musician born in Rochester New York He used the term hyperrealism to describe his work 1 Contents 1 Biography 2 Discography 2 1 CDs 2 2 Compilation albums 2 3 LPs 2 4 Dedications 3 Articles and reviews 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External linksBiography editNoah Creshevsky was born Gary Cohen in Rochester New York to Joseph and Sylvia Cohen He changed his surname to Creshevsky in order to honor his maternal grandparents At the same time he also changed his first name because he said I never felt like a Gary 2 He studied in the preparatory division of the Eastman School of Music from the age of 6 until 1961 then earned a B F A degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1966 studying with Lukas Foss 2 Trained in composition by Nadia Boulanger in Paris and Luciano Berio at the Juilliard School earning a master s degree in 1968 2 Creshevsky lived and worked in New York beginning in 1966 3 There he founded the New York Improvisation Ensemble 2 He taught at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York for 31 years serving as Director of the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music BC CCM from 1994 to 1999 4 He also served on the faculties of Juilliard and Hunter College and was a visiting professor at Princeton University during the 1984 academic year 2 Creshevsky began composing electronic music in 1971 His musical vocabulary used bits of words songs and instrumental sounds By fusing opposites such as music and noise comprehensible and incomprehensible vocal sources Creshevsky attempted to make music that sounded both Western and non Western ancient and modern familiar and unfamiliar 5 This alliance of opposites is heard both in his text sound compositions 1973 1986 Pop Art works in which extreme and unpredictable juxtapositions of iconographic sonic materials establish links between music and society 6 and in later pieces in which the integration of electronic and acoustic sources and processes creates virtual superperformers by using the sounds of traditional instruments pushed past the capacities of human performance 7 Creshevsky s most recent compositions are examples of Hyperrealism a term he uses to describe an electroacoustic language constructed from sounds found in our shared environment that he handles in ways that are exaggerated or intense Collections of Creshevsky s scores and sound recordings are held at the music libraries of Northwestern University 8 and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 9 Creshevsky who died of bladder cancer was interred on Hart Island at his own request Usually burials on Hart Island are for the homeless or poor and unclaimed bodies According to his husband David Sachs a teacher and book editor who lived with Creshevsky for 42 years Creshevsky intended to protest the trappings and cost of traditional funerals 10 11 Discography editCDs edit Man amp Superman 1992 Centaur Records CRC 2126 Variations 1987 Electric String Quartet 1988 Memento Mori 1989 Electric Partita 1990 Talea 1991 Who 1993 Centaur Records CRC 2476 Fanfare 1998 Sha 1996 Twice 1993 Who 1995 et puis 1998 Gone Now 1995 Breathless 1997 Nude Ascending 1999 Auxesis Electronic Music by Charles Amirkhanian and Noah Creshevsky 1995 Centaur Records CRC 2194 Politics as Usual Amirkhanian Borrowed Time Creshevsky 1992 Private Lives Creshevsky 1993 Coup d etat Creshevsky 1994 Hyperrealism 2003 Mutable Music Mutable 17516 2 Canto di Malavita 2002 Jacob s Ladder 1999 Vol au vent 2002 Hoodlum Priest 2002 Novella 2000 Ossi di morte 1997 Jubilate 2001 Born Again 2003 The Tape Music of Noah Creshevsky 1971 1992 2004 EM Records Japan EM 1042CD Strategic Defense Initiative 1986 Highway 1979 Circuit 1971 Drummer 1985 Great Performances 1978 Sonata 1980 In Other Words Portrait of John Cage 1976 Cantiga 1992 To Know and Not to Know 2007 Tzadik Tzadik 8036 Red Carpet 2007 Psalmus XXIII 2003 To Know and Not to Know 2005 Once 2004 Chamber Concerto 1998 Jubilate 2001 Sequenza for trombone 2004 Independence Day 1997 Free Speech 2006 Favorite Encores Music of Noah Creshevsky and If Bwana 2008 Pogus Pogus 21049 2 Mari Kimura Redux Creshevsky Xyloxings If Bwana Shadow of a Doubt Creshevsky Scraping Scrafide If Bwana Intrada Creshevsky Cicada 4 Version Barnard If Bwana Favorite Encores Creshevsky The Twilight of the Gods 2010 Tzadik Tzadik 8069 Gotterdammerung Omaggio Three Minute Waltzes Brother Tom Estancia I Wonder Who s Kissing Her Now La Belle Dame Sans Merci Happy Ending Rounded With A Sleep 2011 Pogus Pogus 21063 2 Rounded With A Sleep La Sonnambula Lisa Barnard Redux What If Tomomi Adachi Redux II The Kindness of Strangers In Memoriam The Four Seasons 2013 Tzadik Tzadik 8097 i summer ii interlude 1 iii autumn iv interlude 2 v winter vi interlude 3 vii spring Hyperrealist Music 2011 2015 2015 EM Records Japan EM 1140CD 1 Pulp Fiction 2014 2 Tomomi Adachi Redux I 2011 3 Quaestio 2014 4 Orchestral Variations 2013 5 Full Fathom Five 2011 6 La Valse 2013 7 You Are Here 2015 Sleeping Awake 2019 Open Space Open Space CD 37 Electric String Quartet 1988 Passacaglia 2018 Sequenza for trombone 2004 Sleeping Awake 2017 Compilation albums edit 60x60 2004 2005 Vox Novus VN 001 60x60 2003 Capstone Records CPS 8744 LPs edit Circuit 1971 In Other Words 1976 Opus One No 45 Broadcast 1973 Great Performances 1978 Opus One No 47 Chaconne 1974 Portrait of Rudy Perez 1978 Highway 1979 Opus One No 50 Sonata 1980 Opus One No 58 Celebration 1983 Opus One No 101 Drummer 1985 Strategic Defense Initiative 1986 Opus One No 111 Reanimator 2018 Orange Milk Records No 99 Dedications edit snapshots for noah creshevsky 2003 Marco OppedisanoArticles and reviews edit STUFF MUZAK 1 A VERY SOFT FOCUS ON HYPERREALIST MUSIC by Dwight Pavlovic Decoder Magazine June 7 2016 A Language We Already Understand Noah Creshevsky s Hyperrealism By Dennis Bathory Kitsz NewMusicBox June 13 2007 When drawing from preexisting works how do you balance legal and moral obligations with the potential to create new art by Noah Creshevsky NewMusicBox November 1 2004References edit Bathory Kitsz Dennis June 13 2007 A Language We Already Understand Noah Creshevsky s Hyperrealism NewMusicBox New Music Usa Archived from the original on December 3 2020 Retrieved December 12 2020 a b c d e Smith Steve December 12 2020 Noah Creshevsky Composer of Hyperreal Music Dies at 75 The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved November 17 2023 http www voxnovus com composer Noah Creshevsky htm Biography on Vox Novus http www brooklyn cuny edu bc spotlite news index php link 102405 Brooklyn College City University of New York Creshevsky Noah Hyperrealism Hyperdrama Superperformers and Open Palette Arcana II John Zorn editor Hips Road Granary Books forthcoming Richard Kostelanetz Dictionary of the Avant Gardes a cappella books 1993 pp 49 50 http www villagevoice com music 0427 gann 54855 22 html Kyle Gann Village Voice July 6 2004 http www library northwestern edu music archival collections creshevsky pdf Finding aid to the Noah Creshevsky Collection at Northwestern University http www nypl org archives 3408 New York Public Library Jordan Mary July 2 2022 She died in a Manhattan penthouse but was buried on an island for the poor The Washington Post Retrieved July 3 2022 It s not a place many people choose to be buried but it was perfect for him WKU Public Radio The Public Radio Service of Western Kentucky University October 17 2023 Retrieved November 17 2023 Further reading editHitchcock H Wiley Music in the United StatesPrentice Hall 1988 p 313 External links editCD Review Twilight of the Gods by Allan Kozinn New York Times June 15 2010 Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music http www voxnovus com composer creshevsky Reviews htm Listing of Creshevsky reviews On Borrowed Time reprint Originally published in Contemporary Music Review Volume 20 Number 4 2001 pp 91 98 8 http www mvdaily com articles 2004 09 creshevsky1 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