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After my initial piece on Sidereus, I was contacted by the Brazillin journalist Lucia-Guimarães:

“Dear Mr. Manoff,

I just read your piece on Sidereus and was hoping to share some information as well as hear your opinion on a related incident that I have kept off the record as a journalist.

I am a correspondent with Brazilian media, based in New York. Would you be available to speak over the phone? “

The circumstance was this: The St. Lawrence String Quartet was scheduled to premiere a Kohelet. A week before the concert, the quartet had only 10 minutes of a 30-minute work.

Although it’s difficult to sort out the details of which version of Kohelet is performed on a concert, music critic David Patrick Stearns (music critic, Philadelphia Inquirer ) reviewed it on FACEBOOK. I am asking Stearns for a link to his original review – I can’t imagine that a “review” on Facebook is legitimate. None-the-less, it does exist and is quoted elsewhere.

In one of many performances, Guimarães recognized that Golijov had appropriated a well-known song by Edu Lobo abd Chico Baurque. The name of the song is Beatriz.

Lucia Guimarães

In fact, Guimarães emailed me both the sheet music and a recording to make the point.

The Guimarães incident was covered in Bob Keefer piece as mentioned in Part One of this story..

Guimarães confronted Golijov at the concert. He apologized

Edu Lobo

and said he would withdraw the music. (At this point it wasn’t in print, it had only been performed. However that performance is still a violation of copyright law. The composers were due both credit and a performance fee.

After our conversation, Guimarães decided to confront Golijov again by phone as a journalist not a friend. I will post that discussion when I can get to it,

The upshot of all this was the Golijov apology, and a somewhat unclear agreement that Guimarães wouldn’t reveal the name of the piece and credits.

Golijov later replaced the music with something else

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Washington Public Radio is launching this week

Washington Public Radio is a new  network. WPR is not an NPR affiliate but encourages audiences to get their news from NPR and BBC.

Oregon Bach Festival

I have written extensively about the Oregon Bach Festival. In this piece I discuss the programming that begins next month. I also assess the general direction of the festival.

Racism in Oregon

Some history on Oregon’s history of racism against people of color.

This piece will appear soon. This will be an ongoing series. Contributors are welcome. Contact tcarpman@gmail.com

Racism in the Palouse Country

The racist history of such towns as Colfax, Hooper, and Pullman, Washington. This will be an ongoing series. Contributors are welcome. Contact tcarpman@gmail.com

Cypher and his friends at Talking Points Memo

The story of various friends who met at Talkin Points Memo. Many were the masks, though in the end a small group of friends came through to meet in the real world. Among them Billy Glad, Tom Manoff and Hilary McDevitt. Others also. Manoff tells the story of how he came to TPM to practice writing in the short and concise style of Billy Glad, Hilary McDevitt and others. Several became contribitors to his site, tommanoff.com

 

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There have been in recent days some wondrous syncronicities with birds and people I know or have just met. They are not random. There is a form.  I feel the axis mundi.

The shopping center down the street  is a recent overlay of concrete and commerce.  I walk to it down a street called Brae Burn Drive.  There’s a Safeway there, a bar, my dentist and a pizza place. Cozy, I suppose. Friendly. A neighborhood.

But what abrasive names for  places where the Calapooia  lived. The Calapooia people. This was their land.

They are still here,  buried beneath the concrete. They have to be. Where do you think the Calapooia are buried? See any signs?  What about that cemetery on Williamete Street. What about that church, St. Judes. Any mention of the  Calapooia?

Concrete and commerce have changed the landscape. Religion and killing too. There was a holocaust here, right here beneath the Safeway.

Look up. The sky is the same. And the birds. The eagle doesn’t follow the concrete to the Safeway, or to the butte or to the river or around the four corners of the world. The birds fly as ever in timeless form. Look up and you see that forever, the Calapooia Sky.

Fall Colors on the Upper Calapooia River

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NOTE: The complete version of  Golijov Revisited

will appear at Washington Public Radio  (WPR)

Golijov Revisited – Part One

Why I took down my original posts about Sidereus

I wrote two pieces at the outset of the Golijov “Sidereus Affair.” I took these two pieces down. This caused some concern from other journalists who had written about the topic and referenced my original two pieces.

I took the two pieces down because there was a total lack of understanding about my involvement — and without a broader context that caused Brian McWhorter and me to attend the original concert of the Eugene Symphony  in Sidereus, a composition presented as if it were composer by Osvaldo Golijov – but was actually the work of Michael Ward-Bergeman.

The real story for me was not only about Golijov. The stream of related events that include the ESO concert in which McWhorter and I heard Sidereus, began a few days earlier with the suicide of my brother Michael Manoff.

It is impossible for me to separate the Golijov events from my brother’s death. I offer here more context for those who care to read it. You may wish to get caught up on the extensive comprehensive articles about Golijov and the Sidereus Affair directly below.

Recap of the Extensive Coverage of the Sidereus Affair

Bob Keefer

Bob Keefer, Register Guard, Composer’s originality questioned by critics

Composer’s borrowing challenged in second work

Composer’s borrowing act lands on deaf ears

Anne Midgette

Anne Midgette, Washington Post

From pastiche to appropriation: Goiljov and “Sidereus”

Among the various astute observations in this piece by Anne Midgette, she points out that Golijov’s style is a type of pastiche. I agree. And while I was enthusiastic about Golijov’s “La Pasión Según San Marcos” (2001), Midgette heard immediately that the work lacked real substance, if one accepts that mere pastiche isn’t great music. I will write more on this later, but with the “La Pasión Según San Marcos,” I was taken in by some of it. Now I realize that I ignored some of the warning signs about inferior music. Midgette had it. I did not. I will write more about Midgette’s views on Golijov in another section of this piece.

Alex Ross

Alex Ross, New Yorker

The Golijov Issue: Borrowed Music, or stolen?

The Golijov Issue: Borrowed Music, or Stolen?

Ross agreed with me: “To put it bluntly, Sidereus is Barbeich with additional material attached.”

Ross has been a Golijov supporter throughout recent years. I will discuss that support from my stance on Golijov in another part of this piece.

Billy Glad

Billy Glad, Annals of the Hive

The most extensive writing about the Sidereus Affair has been done by Billy Glad. I should point out that Glad is a longtime friend. I am regular participant at his site – Annals of the Hive. My personal connection aside, you will find his pieces quite different from others mentioned here. Glad is interested in far more than the facts. His penetrating writing takes the Golijov situation and moves outward into true intellectual reflection.

Glad was the former film critic at this site. For my money his film criticism is among the best you will find anywhere.

Glad’s pieces extend with penetrating comments from other regulars at his blog.

The “Sidereus Flap

It Was The Inside-Outsky After All

Annals of the Annals: The Wisdom of the Hive

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