Los Angeles
Times
"The result,
with more layers and niches of sound than we expect from one string instrument,
is
simultaneously
earthy and unearthly. What seems a radical idea manifests itself in music
of haunting beauty in Uitti's hands."
the night rider
homage to Frances-Marie Uitti
Hands tight on the reins, eyes steady forward, astride
her living wooden horse, she tears ahead.
There are others, at the side, holding searchlights
to catch
her as she goes. Iannis Xenakis sees her spectacular
dexterity.
John Cage smiles at her humour. Giacinto Scelsi welcomes
her gravity and intensity. Jonathan Harvey hails her
wild
imagination. Gyorgy Kurtag observes her true power.
Now this.
She looks neither to right nor to left. Hands tight,
eyes
steady, astride, she tears on.
Paul Griffiths
World Premiere of recently discovered
Scelsi cello concerto in Bologna October 9 2005 with Franck Ollu conductor
info
The ECM Project "there is still
time" with
texts and narration by Paul Griffiths :
link
"Rarely does one get
to hear a work that so strongly stands out as unique. "There is still time"
is
a modern
nocturne."
...Uitti’s performance
is stunning, even when measured by the
very high standard of her past recordings and concerts. In her hands the cello
alternately sings and keens,
howls and whispers. She is a supremely gifted musician whose ability encompasses
everything from standard
practice through the most original of utterances."
Opera News
full text
"...emotionally raw ruminations
on life and death. Griffiths is scathingly direct; Uitti’s playing
is extraordinarily sensitive. Art music doesn’t
get any better than this."
Strings
full text
"Hardly anyone else can produce such dark lightning
with an instrument as Frances-Marie Uitti creates with her cello...."
jazzthetique
full text
"The sound of Frances-Marie Uitti’s cello resonates
in the bloodstream. Griffiths,
Welsh-born, a sometime music critic and the author of some excellent writing
on new music, has a voice that sounds like Uitti’s cello... and he
uses it the way she plays: intense, throbbing, now and then breaking off
and darting
in some unexpected direction. His poetry
is darkly tinged with memory — “There it was, and it was, and
it is gone.” Single words and phrases seem to dissolve into cello sound,
and just as often the process is reversed."
Alan
Rich LAWeekly
full
text
Griffiths’s reading
is enough to induce chills, especially with “My One Fear.”
“My One Fear” is a big block of text with no line breaks, spoken
in a
threatening whisper. As Griffiths struggles to name what that one fear
is, the sensation that it is near regardless makes naming it
irrelevant, and Griffiths’s voice insinuates itself into your mind like
an evil conscience.
Timeout Chicago
full text
FM Uitti has
been awarded a Regent's Lecturship at the University of California Berkeley
for the season 2005. She will be developing interactive electronic systems
with David Wessel for her 6 string Jensen cello at CNMAT.
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Wessel
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