Assoc Prof @mcgillu @schulichmusic / Musician, writer, lecturer / Thoughts on art, aesthetics, epistemology / author, MOZART THE PERFORMER @UChicagoPress
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25 Jan 2025
I'm so happy to see this CD out in the world, just in time for Mozart's birthday. An experimental take on his String Duos inspired by my book. Featuring ornaments, historical arrangements, and @catherinecosbey
Link below!
@MozartCircleCN @schulichmusic @UChicagoPress @mcgillu
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Dorian K Bandy retweeted
20 Mar 2025
"The single most important thing for a violinist to keep in mind while playing Beethoven's Violin Sonatas: we are, for much of the time, accompanying the piano." @mcgillu #violin professor Dorian Bandy explores Beethoven's Violin Sonatas.
violinist.com/blog/dorianban…
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25 Jan 2025
I'm so happy to see this CD out in the world, just in time for Mozart's birthday. An experimental take on his String Duos inspired by my book. Featuring ornaments, historical arrangements, and @catherinecosbey
Link below!
@MozartCircleCN @schulichmusic @UChicagoPress @mcgillu
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Dorian K Bandy retweeted
25 Jan 2025
New release! Mozart String Duos album featuring MSA Board member @DorianKBandy, with liner notes by MSA President Laurel Zeiss. Includes premieres of newly discovered K. 305 arrangements & La clemenza di Tito arias! Available now on all streaming platforms & CD via Leaf Music.
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21 Nov 2024
I'm happy to announce that my new Mozart recording, with the wonderful @catherinecosbey , can now be pre-saved on Spotify and Apple!
leaf-music.lnk.to/lm297
The disc features the brilliant violin-viola duos as well as two premieres and lots of embellishments. Out in January!
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21 Nov 2024
Mozart's string duos are among his most inventive chamber works, and we try to play them as he might have wanted, with a degree of improvisation and ornamentation rarely heard today in his string music.
I wrote about our interpretations for @violinist :
violinist.com/blog/dorianban…
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14 Nov 2024
Martin Amis: "Money"
In my early 20s it seemed like pure slapstick and farce; in my mid 30s I discovered that after the first hundred or so pages it becomes one of the most profound, poetic, redemptive artworks I've ever encountered.
13 Nov 2024
What’s a book you love that was even better at second reading?
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12 Nov 2024
It's true in theory that if Beethoven can be wrong, there must be objective aesthetic criteria of some kind. I love @ernsterlanson 's argument.
But in practice it's complicated Finding a 'mistake' in Beethoven could just mean that we misunderstood what he's up to. 1/
12 Nov 2024
In Beethoven's sonata, opus 2 no. 1, there is a mistake in most editions in bar 76. The first note should be a Bb flat instead of Db flat. Otherwise, it violates the sequence that is set up starting from bar 73.
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12 Nov 2024
Yes, if his goal is to do a simple sequence, a deviation is wrong. But what if his goal is to set up a sequence and then deviate? Empiricism is false; the artwork doesn't give an answer itself. 2/
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12 Nov 2024
With the great composers, especially Beethoven, my standing assumption is always that he's so *astronomically* smarter than I am, that things that look to me like possible mistakes are really just cases where I failed to figure out the actual thing he's after.
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1 Nov 2024
Academic writing was livelier and so much more fun half a century ago. A hilarious (and true) paragraph by Robin Winks, c.1969, on evidence, observation, and the philosophy of history:
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17 Oct 2024
Delighted that @strohltopia 's new book has made it to Montreal. Can't wait to dig in!
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29 Jul 2024
It's sale week at @UChicagoPress , and this means that with the code EBOOK75, the e-edition of my Mozart book is just $10!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…
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Dorian K Bandy retweeted
23 Jul 2024
How playful, how irreverent, how mercurial do you like your Mozart? Violinist @DorianKBandy explores this question and more in this delightful and engagin analysis (yes!) of Mozart’s Duos for #Violin and #Viola. @schulichmusic
violinist.com/blog/dorianban…
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19 Apr 2023
It's hard to believe that this moment has arrived...but my book on Mozart is now available for pre-order! @UChicagoPress
amazon.com/Mozart-Performer-…
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19 Apr 2023
The text is structured like a theme and variations, with each chapter examining a different way in which Mozart's experience and priorities as a performer helped shape his written music.
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19 Apr 2023
And although there's a fair amount of theory and analysis in this book, I try to keep the text accessible and engaging by focusing not only on how Mozart's music works, but on ways of *hearing* it with performance and theatricality firmly in mind.
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28 Jan 2023
Favorite books I've read or reread in 2023. A thread. 📖🧵
(My go-to genres are literary fiction, poetry, and a blend of academic and trade nonfiction, some for work and some not.)
The books I post here are those that stood out as exceptionally good - all highly recommended.
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4 Mar 2023
(But I'll admit that I was annoyed by the novel's politics, and the way they detracted from the actual matters at hand--regret, friendship, the forking paths of life, etc. I enjoyed the book *despite*, rather than because, of the stance it takes on the outside world.)
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4 Mar 2023
And I just finished the most fun, most humane style guide I've ever read. (Though the third/fourth editions of Richard Lanham's "Revising Prose" are a very close runner-up!)
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