William Bland built up an impressive pedigree in the avant-garde; he studied at Peabody, and the roster of professors under whom he tutored includes Ernst Krenek and Earle Brown. He taught in New York and performed in new music circles until one day Bland dropped out and returned to his native West Virginia, working as a musician in his local community. He returned to composition with a renewed vigor late in the twentieth century, with an idiom that takes a little bit of his new music heritage into a context that he truly ...
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William Bland built up an impressive pedigree in the avant-garde; he studied at Peabody, and the roster of professors under whom he tutored includes Ernst Krenek and Earle Brown. He taught in New York and performed in new music circles until one day Bland dropped out and returned to his native West Virginia, working as a musician in his local community. He returned to composition with a renewed vigor late in the twentieth century, with an idiom that takes a little bit of his new music heritage into a context that he truly loves -- the music current at the turn of the twentieth century. Since 1998, Bland has embarked on a cycle of 24 piano sonatas, of which 17 are complete at the time of the 2007 issue of this Bridge release, William Bland; they are rich with ragtime, romantic flourishes, nostalgia, and, best of all, are original and striking creations. This disc features Bland, who as a pianist is far more capable than composers tend to be, in his Sonata No. 4 in E flat, "Goodbye Concert Rags," his...
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