James Helgeson
@jshelgeson.bsky.social
Civis mundi sum, communis omnium vel peregrinus magis.
Here’s a piece I wrote on a commission from the Curtis Institute for their 100th, and for the amazing Ben Goldscheider, who plays it wonderfully here. 100 circumspect notes for 100 years.
www.curtis.edu/100-for-100/...
www.curtis.edu/100-for-100/...
Western Fronts (a) - Curtis Institute of Music
Western Fronts (a) for solo horn was written for Ben Goldscheider and for Curtis’s 100th anniversary. The impetus for the…
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February 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Here’s a piece I wrote on a commission from the Curtis Institute for their 100th, and for the amazing Ben Goldscheider, who plays it wonderfully here. 100 circumspect notes for 100 years.
www.curtis.edu/100-for-100/...
www.curtis.edu/100-for-100/...
Madison, 27 January 2025, c. 915
January 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Madison, 27 January 2025, c. 915
Berlin (Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg), 26 January 2025, c. 1045
January 26, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Berlin (Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg), 26 January 2025, c. 1045
Brief trip to Murka (till the 30th) today.
I find all of this unutterably sad.
I find all of this unutterably sad.
January 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Brief trip to Murka (till the 30th) today.
I find all of this unutterably sad.
I find all of this unutterably sad.
Berlin (Mitte), 23 January 2025, c. 1650
January 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Berlin (Mitte), 23 January 2025, c. 1650
Plus penser que dire
Me convient souvent,
Sans monstrer comment
N'à quoy mon cueur tire.
Faignant de soubzrire,
Quant suis tresdolent,
Plus penser que dire
Me convient souvent.
En toussant, souspire
Pour secretement
Musser mon tourment.
C'est privé martire,
Plus etc.
Charles d’Orléans
Me convient souvent,
Sans monstrer comment
N'à quoy mon cueur tire.
Faignant de soubzrire,
Quant suis tresdolent,
Plus penser que dire
Me convient souvent.
En toussant, souspire
Pour secretement
Musser mon tourment.
C'est privé martire,
Plus etc.
Charles d’Orléans
January 21, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Plus penser que dire
Me convient souvent,
Sans monstrer comment
N'à quoy mon cueur tire.
Faignant de soubzrire,
Quant suis tresdolent,
Plus penser que dire
Me convient souvent.
En toussant, souspire
Pour secretement
Musser mon tourment.
C'est privé martire,
Plus etc.
Charles d’Orléans
Me convient souvent,
Sans monstrer comment
N'à quoy mon cueur tire.
Faignant de soubzrire,
Quant suis tresdolent,
Plus penser que dire
Me convient souvent.
En toussant, souspire
Pour secretement
Musser mon tourment.
C'est privé martire,
Plus etc.
Charles d’Orléans
Berlin (Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg), 17 January 2025, c. 1345
January 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Berlin (Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg), 17 January 2025, c. 1345
Berlin (Mitte), 12 January 2025, c. 1655
January 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Berlin (Mitte), 12 January 2025, c. 1655
More of Ming's marvellous playing (my 'Kegelstatt'--clarinet, viola, piano) trio, done this last spring in Berlin. The first, longer movement is quiet night music, and the second is faster and more mischievous, although they are closely related under the surface.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcId...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcId...
James Helgeson Trio for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano (2019)
YouTube video by Mingzhe Wang
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January 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
More of Ming's marvellous playing (my 'Kegelstatt'--clarinet, viola, piano) trio, done this last spring in Berlin. The first, longer movement is quiet night music, and the second is faster and more mischievous, although they are closely related under the surface.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcId...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcId...
Berlin (Tiergarten), 9 January 2025, c. 1915
January 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Berlin (Tiergarten), 9 January 2025, c. 1915
Excellent Mahler 1 at the Philharmonic tonight, with a new viola concerto by Donghoon Shin, and Lili Boulanger’s ‘D’un matin du printemps’. Tugan Sokhiev conducting. (Berlin.)
January 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Excellent Mahler 1 at the Philharmonic tonight, with a new viola concerto by Donghoon Shin, and Lili Boulanger’s ‘D’un matin du printemps’. Tugan Sokhiev conducting. (Berlin.)
