Slash. Uri Caine’s Mahler

• Authors: Adam Poprawa
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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In recent years, artistic projects combining a wide array of musical styles, such as jazz interpretations of classical music or orchestral arrangements of rock songs, have enjoyed considerable popularity. As their authors were focused mainly on sales profits, the artistic value of their works was often highly disputable. Nevertheless, some outstanding achievements in that field have also been made, among them reinterpretations of classical repertoire - Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann, and, above all, Mahler - by American pianist Uri Caine. He recorded several CDs containing new versions of Mahler’s entire works or their excerpts. Sometimes Caine’s music moves far away from the originals, though such artistic experiments are always well-grounded and aesthetically convincing. Caine’s reinterpretations of Mahler have also some (auto)biographical overtones.

Keywords

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Uri Caine; blurred genres; reinterpretation; Jewish cultural tradition

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 13
• Pages: 183-188

Dates

published

2018-10-17

Contributors

author

Adam Poprawa

• Historian, literary critic, music critic and writer. His publications include literature studies Kultura i egzystencja w poezji Jarosława Marka Rymkiewicza [‘Culture and existence in the poetry of Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz’] (1999) and Formy i afirmacje [‘Forms and affirmations’] (2003), as well as the non-fiction reflections Walce wolne, walce szybkie [‘Slow waltzes, fast waltzes’] (2009). His articles, essays and reviews have appeared in numerous journals, such as ‘Teksty Drugie’, ‘Ruch Literacki’, ‘Kresy’, ‘Odra’, ‘Jazz Forum’ and ‘Tygodnik Powszechny’. His academic interests include the literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, in particular the works of Stanisław Barańczak, Miron Białoszewski and James Joyce. He holds the post of assistant professor at the Polish Philology Institute at the University of Wroclaw.