{"id":4656,"date":"2012-12-06T10:28:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T09:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=4656"},"modified":"2012-12-06T13:50:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T12:50:32","slug":"in-memorian-jonathan-harvey-and-dave-brubeck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/12\/06\/in-memorian-jonathan-harvey-and-dave-brubeck\/","title":{"rendered":"In memorian: Jonathan Harvey and Dave Brubeck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The musical world has lost two giants this week; British composer Jonathan Harvey has died at the age of seventy-three, and American jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck, aged ninety-one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1896\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2010\/09\/Harvey.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan Harvey\" width=\"167\" height=\"142\" \/>Harvey, who has suffered from motor-neurone disease for some time, will be remembered as the composer of music, often clothing instrumental and orchestral textures in a tapestry of electronics, that maps new worlds of deeply spiritual and sonic, almost mystic, contemplation, nowhere more so than in one of my favourite pieces, one of his very late works, <em>Messages<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='474' height='297' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yEaEVUHBM3U?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>From the eletronics-and-bells of <em>Mortuos plango, vivos voco <\/em>to later works such as <em>The Madonna of Winter and Spring<\/em> which cracks open like Stravinsky&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Rite<\/em>, or the meditative breathing ensemble in\u00a0<em>Tranquil Abiding<\/em>, Harvey&#8217;s music combines a deep religious sense (his outlook embraced both Christianity and, later, Buddhism) with a unique musical language, one with a wonderful ear for ravishing sounds. (There&#8217;s a very moving interview with <em>The Guardian<\/em>&#8216;s Tom Service that appeared in January this year, which you can read <a title=\"Read article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2012\/jan\/26\/jonathan-harvey-not-very-british\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Dave Brubeck will forever be remembered for <em>Take Five<\/em>, a recording graced with the liquid tone of saxophonist Paul Desmond. Classically trained, his music invested jazz in the 50&#8217;s and 60&#8217;s with classical techniques, including a mischevious delight in unusual time-signatures.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the band making 7\/8 popular in <em>Unsquare Dance<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='474' height='297' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NDB4K5zCcfk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-4657\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2012\/12\/brubeck-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2012\/12\/brubeck-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2012\/12\/brubeck-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2012\/12\/brubeck.jpg 410w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/>Both will be much missed.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/12\/06\/in-memorian-jonathan-harvey-and-dave-brubeck\/&amp;t=In memorian: Jonathan Harvey and Dave Brubeck' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=In memorian: Jonathan Harvey and Dave Brubeck%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/12\/06\/in-memorian-jonathan-harvey-and-dave-brubeck\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/12\/06\/in-memorian-jonathan-harvey-and-dave-brubeck\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/12\/06\/in-memorian-jonathan-harvey-and-dave-brubeck\/&amp;title=In memorian: Jonathan Harvey and Dave Brubeck' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/12\/06\/in-memorian-jonathan-harvey-and-dave-brubeck\/&amp;title=In memorian: Jonathan Harvey and Dave Brubeck' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The musical world has lost two giants this week; British composer Jonathan Harvey has died at the age of seventy-three, and American jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck, aged ninety-one. Harvey, who has suffered from motor-neurone disease for some time, will be remembered as the composer of music, often clothing instrumental and orchestral textures in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/12\/06\/in-memorian-jonathan-harvey-and-dave-brubeck\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In memorian: Jonathan Harvey and Dave Brubeck<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":1896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1110],"tags":[1485,1306,14664,14665],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4656"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4669,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions\/4669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}