Music Quotations for the Week
of August 30th, 2010

This week's youtube video features Edgar Meyers Duet for Cello and Bass, performed live by Yoyo Ma and Edgar Meyer.

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This Week's Music Quotes:

Double-bassist and composer Edgar Meyer

The picture above is from Minnesota Public Radio audio interview, by Jeffrey Freymann-Weyr - Link Here

Musicians in Their Own Words: Edgar Meyer

Bonnett and I are big fans of the renowned double bassist and composer and 3-time Grammy Award winner, Edgar Meyer. We own 3 of his CD’s and a DVD showcasing the tour he did with the virtuoso banjo player, Bela Fleck. We heard him a few years ago at the conclusion of the tour with Bela Fleck. Edgar also performed on piano, and together with Bela, played Bach, bluegrass music and a number of works by Edgar Meyer.

What strikes me about his playing is the extraordinary range of sounds…  dynamically, the lows to extreme highs, the exquisite variety of color within his nuanced quality of tone.

Here are two links. The first is a short youtube.com video about Edgar's work with JS Bach's Music on double bass.

The second is to his website. The treat of the website is the ongoing music track sampling a huge variety of his music. His bio, other information and especially his tour schedule is well worth checking out on an ongoing basis so you too may have the thrill of hearing him in live performance. Here is the link to www.edgarmeyer.com

“Most of the music I’ve become interested in is hybrid in its origins…Classical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam.  Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you’re exploring everything.”

– Edgar Meyer

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