Timothy Andres: Shy and Mighty

"I got introduced to his music through Bob Hurwitz at Nonesuch Records, who gave me a score of 'Shy and Mighty,' a collection of pieces for two pianos. Timothy does something as a composer that I’ve never been able to do myself. He can create characters in music that you see and feel. For instance, there’s a piece called 'How Can I Live in Your World of Ideas?' ... It’s a conversation between the two pianos, where one character seems to have these ideas about classical music, about history, about occidental stuff, and then the other one is insisting that there’s another way to go. They’re combating and then they start meeting, coming together, in this way that’s very modern and kind of jarring, not like anything I’ve heard. It’s squarely tonal music, not post-Schoenberg in the sense of avoiding functional harmony. One minute it’ll have a gesture of Brahms, and then at other times ... something that sounds like rock" (Brad Mehldau speaking to Nate Chinen, "Playlist," New York Times, 2/27/11).
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