Chris Rutkowski, Composer/Pianist

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This woman’s got it all

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Why is it that the European TV organizations get such a good sound? Here’s a great performance of the young Aretha with excellent miking.

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Recently our Jazz Ensemble at IPFW did an entire concert of Frank Zappa’s music, brilliantly arranged by saxophonist Ed Palermo for big band, which I recorded and mixed. This concert transformed me from an admirer to a full blown convert. Here’s a somewhat fuzzy video of a concert in Barcelona, but the audio [...]

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Digital Sampling programs like Kontakt and Vienna Symphonic Library have gotten so realistic and organic that this direction taken by Pat Metheny provides a really interesting twist.

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The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band: 1969, Rotterdam.
What a line up: Roland Hanna, Richard Davis, Pepper Adams. Perfect Ensemble. Great Solos. Total Control. Total Swing.

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Dudamel conducting his high school kids in Venezuela playing Shostakovich 10, and in conversation at the TED conference.

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Alex Ross, the music critic of The New Yorker and author of the phenomenally successful survey of music of the 2oth century, The Rest is Noise, has an extensive guide to the book on his blog.  It includes an extensive library of audio samples.  Echoing the New York City theme of “no boundaries”, Ross takes [...]

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From the NY Times, this video profile of the new musician. No Boundaries. For that matter, an object lesson for those studying at a high-performing liberal arts school like the College of Wooster.

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This week’s Composers Forum at the College of Wooster will be equally divided between a presentation of JC’s Etude Fantasy for Piano and a general discussion of questions that students will have for him at the teleconference on Oct. 29.
Here are two youtubes of a fine performance of the piece:

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