Musician's Creed assignment

1. Nick Garcia
Jovan Pittman
Alex Hellberg
Jose Casas
NICK & DA BOYZ

2.  Born in Germany in 1900
 Was composing and mounting concerts by age 12
 Had a wide range of musical occupations to start making a living
 By 1923, they had 5 full works performed in Germany
 First opera was performed in 1926
 Remarried his 1st wife a few years after their divorce
 Was a respected conductor and composer
 Died in 1950
BIO

3.  Moriat:
 “Deadly Deed”
 Medieval version of a Murder Ballad
 Waltz Section
 March Section
GENRES

4.  Premiered in Berlin in 1925
 Program: The harsh life of a beggar
 Review from Village Voice “[T]he work is not actively political as many of
______later works are, though he tried to make it so in subsequent rewritings. It
was meant as provocative entertainment for middle-class theatergoers – part
satire, part shock effects, part aesthetic innovation, part moral indictment, and
part sheer theatrical diversion…Wilson carefully removed all these aspects of the
piece, turning ___ and ___ middle-class wake-up call into dead entertainment for
rich people.”
 Influenced jazz artists who translate and transpose several pieces from this opera
THIS PIECE

5.  Minimalism
 Post-Modernism
 Nationalism
 Serialism
ASSOCIATED ISMS AND IDEAS