Five Reasons to Listen to Livingston:
Guy Livingston played 'Traficante de Bananas' with the comic talent of a Buster Keaton .
—HET PAROOL
A great performance, visually and musically interesting.
— NRC Handelsblad |
'A feast for the eye and for the ear!'
—Viertakt Radio Show Holland
'Antheil's Finest Keyboard Interpreter'
—Signal to Noise Magazine
'soloist Guy Livingston acquits himself with panache'
—Tempo Magazine
'a rousing performance'
—New Music Box
"An exceptionally agile and charismatic performer"
— LA Times
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The recording and performance on this CD are both excellent, and Guy Livingston deserves praise for championing the works of a composer who is being forgotten today.
— SEQUENZA 21
'dynamic performances and erudite scholarship'
—NEW MUSIC BOX
'a masterful new recording'
—Raymond Tuttle, Fanfare, December 2006 |
Backstage
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Recent Events
Fresno, California - Film Festival. One Minute More film screening: April 17-19, 2009 .....Paris: Atelier de la Main d'Or February 6, 2009 - Henry Cowell Program.......November Music November 16th. Verkadefabriek. Den Bosch. Premiere of "One Minute More", Kunsthuis 13, Velp. November 23rd. "One Minute More", Eindhoven, November 27. Muziekcentrum Frits Philips. "One Minute More", Strasbourg Museum of Modern Art: November 28 and 30: Dada at the Movies, Amsterdam, DVD release concert - December 9. Het Bethaniënklooster. "One Minute More", Utrecht. Theater Kikker. December 17 "One Minute More", Baseball and Music Exposition at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, in which the infamous New York Times article, and Annie Gosfield's score mourning the Brooklyn Dodgers both feature prominently - the opening of this show featured microbrewed beer and hotdogs. Livingston's CD "Don't Panic" is also part of the exhibit. .......60 second composition by Guy Livingston, as part of 60x60, at Galapagos in DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY. September 5th and 6th at 8:00 pm. .....Theatre Dunois (Paris). Ensemble Aleph 25th Anniversary Concert. May 31st....July 13-26, 2008: UC Fresno (California): Recitals and Masterclasses with Ben Boone and the Kronos Quartet, as part of SummerArts.....Santa Cruz: Cowell, Crumb, Ives, and Antheil. July 27th, 2008......Zutphen 4 dada concerts, May 19th. Tour with the Ensemble Aleph and Verge Ensemble, April 20-27th: Loyola College (Baltimore); Ensemble Aleph: La Maison Française (Washington); Ensemble Aleph: Corcoran Gallery (Washington) ; Guy Livingston, solo: NYPL (New York City) May 3rd: Henry Cowell Portrait. ; Guy Livingston, solo: Chapelle du Bon Pasteur (Montreal) May 12 , at 8pm: Carte Blanche à Guy Livingston. (Dada at the Movies) Fondation suisse - Salon Le Corbussier. Dada Salon 11 Feb 2008 ... Atelier de la Main d'Or, Paris. November 17th. Piano 4-mains. Satie, Poulenc, Ndodana. 20h.....South Africa (Stellenbosch). January 2008. Satie 4 hands + Stravinsky 3 hands.... Fondation des Etats-Unis, Paris. October 4th. Solo Recital. Free admission. Sixty Seconds 2: a sneak preview of some of the new one-minute pieces. 15 boulevard Jourdan, 75014, RER Cité Universitaire. 8:30pm....Kunsthuis 13, Velp, The Netherlands. November 11, 2007. Dada at the Movies...Festival de Cluny, July 7, 2007 (Solo Recital: Prokofiev 7th Sonata and Ives Concord Sonata);Musée d'Art Moderne, Strasbourg, June 20 [note new date], 2007 (Ciné qua Dada); Carte Blanche à Guy Livingston: Four concerts as guest director of the Ensemble Aleph and the Contemporary Music Forum, Theatre Dunois, Paris, May 25 & 26, 2007 (festivale de musique américaine) Read coverage of the concert: (ConcertoNet.com); DeLink, Tilburg, Netherlands, May 8 2007 (Dada at the Movies). Jury member, Orléans Concours de Musique Contemporaine - "Brin d'Herbe". March 2007; Association of Performing Arts Presentors (APAP), Fazioli Salon, New York City. January 22. Benefit concert for Bethesda Children's Red Cross Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa, January 12, 2007. CD Release: Fall 2006, New World Records (Antheil 2nd Piano Concerto) (read reviews); South American Music Festival: MuziekGebouw, Bamzaal, Amsterdam, December 10, 2006. (Kagel, Arditto); Galerie Marzee: Nijmegen, December 17, 2006. ("The Shape of Music: Graphic Scores"); Benefit Concert for South African children. October 21, 2006...Dutch Design Days: Temporary Arts Center, Eindhoven (NL). October 22. (Dada at the Movies)...HOLLAND FESTIVAL, June 2006. Amsterdam, WestergasFabriek. Silent films and their original piano music. Artistic overview of the show. (or click here for program and tech requirements) "Dada at the Movies" ...Guy Livingston presents a Dada Cinémathèque: silent films of the 1920's, with live music at the piano, reconstructed from the originals. (see video clips) CLUNY FESTIVAL: July 8, 9, and 10th, 2006: Cluny (Burgundy), France. Chamber music (Weill, Stroë, Kagel, Ravel, Brahms) GHENT DAYS PIANO FESTIVAL: July 20th, Ghent, Belgium: Dada at the Movies. THEATRE DUNOIS: June 3rd, 2006, Paris: Chamber music (Stroë, Antheil)...Academie Musicale de Villecroze (Var), France: April 14, 2006 (piano duo performances)...Robeco Kasteel Concert April 4...SOUTH AFRICAN TOUR: March 12-17, 2006 (Cape Town, Johanessburg, Pietermaritzburg)...Miller Theater, New York City on Oct 7th, 2005....Philadelphia Virtuosi on Oct 9th...Manheim, Germany on Nov 7th...Bergen, Netherlands on Nov 18th...Amsterdam Nov 27th, 2005.
Guy on DVD
One Minute More is now available! Buy the PAL dvd online at Amazon.com or CreateSpace.com. Also for sale in Holland via Guy's online store. 60 composers, 60 films, 60 seconds each! Check out the online store for where to buy it and how to get free shipping!
Guy Livingston features as a scholar and pianist in the 2006 documentary "Bad Boy Made Good." Covering the genesis and rebirth of Antheil's Ballet mécanique, the film is available at Amazon.com and Antheil.org. Watch a video trailer (3Mb) in quicktime.
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Dada at the Movies: Interview with Guy Livingston, backstage in Amsterdam. (9Mb)
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"Brilliantissime"
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Journale Cluny-Macon
"An exceptionally agile and charismatic
performer"
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LA Times
"A fine rich piano sound; Livingston's playing
is highly accomplished"
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BBC Music Magazine
Repertoire 2009-10
Theatrical One-Man Shows
Bad Boy
of Music, scenes from Antheil's
life in Paris and Hollywood
Don't Panic: One Minute More — new version begins touring in autumn 2008, DVD release 2008
John Cage in a Bathtub (unpredictable music and anecdotes)
Dada at the Movies
(avant-garde silent films of the 1920s, with live music)
Piano Recitals
Sweet 'n Sour, the music of
Boulez and Monk
Prokofiev Sonatas and Visions Fugitives
Henry Cowell Portrait - The Tides of Manuanuan
Ives Concord Sonata
All-Cage Program
George Antheil, The Lost Piano Sonatas
The Late Beethoven Sonatas
L'impressionisme improvisé de Debussy, Poulenc
et Ravel
Links: Backstage with Guy | Dada at the Movies | 60 Seconds for Piano
Management
Latitude
45 Arts Management
Barbara Scales
info@latitude45arts.com
109, boul. St-Joseph Ouest Montréal (Quebec) Canada H2T 2P7
Tel: (514) 276-2694 Fax: (514) 849-0755
Contact Guy Livingston
Mr. Livingston also gives piano lessons and chamber music coaching, in Paris and Amsterdam.
hot off the presses:
Aleph, Verge Ensembles
The Verge Ensemble, the adventurous new-music group in residence at the Corcoran Gallery, joined forces with the Paris-based Ensemble Aleph on Friday for a concert at the Embassy of France that demonstrated the value of trans-Atlantic cooperation in areas beyond mere trade and politics. Mingling their personnel, the two groups gave a nod to the past with a graceful reading of Ravel's Piano Trio in A Minor, but focused on edgier works written in the last decade or two.
— Stephen Brookes, Washington Post
This disc [Gabriela Imreh plays Piano Transcriptions] also has the benefit of including witty and personable liner notes by fellow pianist Guy Livingston, a cut above the usual dry recitation of facts known and oft repeated about the literature in the program.
— Dave Lewis, All Music Guide
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