CIMBASSO (John-Nemaric)

CIMBASSO

Information is not knowledge - Knowledge is not wisdom

Wisdom is not truth - Truth is not beauty

Beauty is not love - Love is not music

MUSIC IS THE BEST

FAVORITE INSTRUMENTS

The Wagner tuba in Bb/F

The Cimbasso

  CAVEAT EMPTOR

  I AM NOT GORT

  KLAATU BARADA NIKTO

MUSIC REVIEWS

WAGNER, Richard: TRISTAN & ISOLDE an orchestral passion by Henk de Vlieger

TRISTAN & ISOLDE an orchestral passion - orchestral version by Henk de Vlieger - Philharmonisches Orchester Hagen/Antony Hermus (conductor) - Stereo DVD Audio plus FLAC Audio - April 2009 - http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=5719

KARLSEN, Kjell Mørk, et al: MISSA DA TROMBA

MISSA DA TROMBA: works by Kjell Mørk Karlsen, Jon Laukvik, Ketil Vea and Egil Hovland for trumpet and organ/Jan Fredrik Christiansen (trumpet)/Terje Winge (organ) - Multichannel SACD - March 2009 - http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=5609

LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO: LIVE!

LIVE! at the University of Akron - 12 songs - DVD - January 2009 http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=5363

AUROPHONIE AND 2+2+2: SECOND SPECIAL FEATURE

AUROPHONIE AND 2+2+2: second special feature/article on this new 3D recording technology, including five disc reviews that employ it. January 2009 http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=5309

BRAHMS, Johannes: EARLY PIANO WORKS - VOL. I

Sonata No. 2 op. 2 - Variationen über ein Thema von Robert Schumann op. 9 - Ballades (4) op. 10 - Hardy Rittner (Johann Baptist Streicher Piano 1851) - Multi-channel SACD 2+2+2 - January 2009 http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=5309

BRAHMS, Johannes: EARLY PIANO WORKS - VOL. II

Sonata No. 1 op. 1 / Sonata No. 3 op. 5 - Hardy Rittner (Ignaz Bösendorfer Piano, 1849/50) - Multi-channel SACD 2+2+2 - January 2009 http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=5309

ARP-SCHNITGER-ORGEL NORDEN Vol. 2: ORGAN WORKS BY BACH-BUXTEHUDE-BÖHM & REINCKEN

15 Organ Works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude, Georg Böhm and Johann Adam Reincken - Agnes Luchterhandt and Thiemo Janssen (organists) - Multichannel SACD 2+2+2 - January 2009 http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=5309

MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus: PIANO CONCERTOS VOL. 3

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 17 KV 453 in G major / Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 18 KV 456 in B-flat major - Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne/Christian Zacharias (piano and conductor) - Multi-channel SACD 2+2+2 - January 2009 - http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=5309

VASKS, Péteris: PIANO TRIO & PIANO QUARTET

Piano Trio "Episodi e Canto perpetuo" / Piano Quartet - Trio Parnasus/Avri Levitan (viola) - Multi-channel SACD 2+2+2 - January 2009 http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=5309

COBLA SANT JORDI: LA SARDANA

BEST CD OF YEAR 2008

La Sardana - Cobla Sant Jordi de Ciutat de Barcelona/Xavier Pagés (conductor) - CD - December 2008

http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=5198

SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitry: SYMPHONY No. 14

Symphony No. 14 op. 135 for Soprano, Bass and Chamber Orchestra - Beethoven Orchester Bonn/Iano Tamar (sop)/Taras Shtonda (bass)/Roman Kofman (conductor) - Multichannel SACD 2+2+2 - December 2008 http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=5187

BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van: SYMPHONIES 5 & 6

BEST SACD OF YEAR 2008

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor op. 67 and Symphony No. 6 in F major "Pastorale" op. 68 - Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra/Wojciech Rajski (conductor) - Multichannel SACD - November 2008 - http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=5130

MAHLER, Gustav: SYMPHONY No. 5

BEST SACD OF YEAR 2008
MULTICHANNEL DISC OF THE MONTH

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor (1901-1902) - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Mariss Jansons (conductor) - Multichannel SACD - November 2008 - http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=5101

STRAUSS, Richard: EIN HELDENLEBEN

Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben/Alan Fletcher: Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra (World Premiere)/Giuseppe Verdi: Overture "La Forza del Destino" - Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra/Manfred Honeck (conductor) - Multichannel SACD - November 2008 - http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=5091

ADAMS, John: DOCTOR ATOMIC

Doctor Atomic (complete opera) - Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra/Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera/Lawrence Renes (conductor) - DVD - November 2008 - http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=5054

BRAHMS, Johannes: SYMPHONY No. 1

Symphony No.1 in C minor, et al - Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/The Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) - CD - November 2008 - http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=5041

MOZART, Wolfang Amadeus: DEMOFOONTE

Ein Operrnfragment / Fragments of an Opera - Cappella Coloniensis/Bruno Weil (conductor) - Multichannel SACD - October 2008 http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=5017

BACH, Johan Sebastian, et al: SPIELEN IN DIE ORGEL

Barocke Meisterwerke für Violine und Orgel - Annegret Siedel (Barockvioline) and Pieter van Dijk (orgel) - Multichannel SACD - October 2008 - http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=4997

PLATTI, Giovanni Benedetto: ANTOLOGIA

Pratum Integrum Orchestra/Alfredo Bernardini (conductor) - Multichannel SACD - October 2008 - http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=4912

MINKUS, Ludwig: DON QUIJOTE

BEST DVD OF YEAR 2008

BALLET NACIONAL DE CUBA - Viengsay Valdès & Romel Frómeta/Alicia Alonso (Choreographer)/Orquesta Sinfonica del Gran Teatro de Habana/Giovanni Duarte (Conductor) - DVD - October 2008 http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=4901

RIJEN, Jörgen van: SACKBUTT

Jörgen van Rijen (sackbutt)/Combattimento Consort Amsterdam/Jan Willem de Vriend (Conductor) - Multichannel SACD - September 2008 http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=4866

NOTE

For more music reviews go to the following page:

http://john.nemaric.googlepages.com/home2

BEWARE OF TRIFFIDS

THEY ARE OUT THERE JUST WAITING FOR AN OPPORTUNITY TO OVERCOME US...

And what would it be 28 days after that?

And then 28 weeks after that?

If you know the answer please contact me at:

john.nemaric@gmail.com

OR CALL ON THE CAVALRY

AND IF THAT FAILS
YOU CAN ALWAYS
CALL ON GORT

A CLASSICAL MUSIC HISTORIAN TRAPPED

INSIDE AN ANTHROPOLOGIST'S BODY

THIS LANGUAGE, MY LANGUAGE,

AND THESE DEFECTS, MY DEFECTS

With my son Martin on his graduation day at Carnegie Mellon University - Dpt. of Mathematics

what do I do every day?

the answer is just bellow

LIVE AND BECOME

This site is dedicated to my late friend BORIS GILBERTSON (RIP) of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

DISCLAIMER

Anybody trying to get into my head by reading through this page and assuming the unassumable will be highly
disappointed because there is nothing inside my head.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF MY TIME...SO FAR

If you just happen to remember this scene from Stanley Kubrick's film "2001: A Space Odyssey" when a very agitated Sahelanthropus tchadensis pounds and later throws up in the air a large femoral bone...well, yes, that was me in another life long ago. The fact is, I still am a primate...of the best kind, of course.

However, in this life, I have been successfully civilized...more or less...actually less than more. So please do not make a monkey out of me...I am a monkey!!!

How was I civilized? Now, that is a good question and the answer is: with MUSIC...classical music for the most part.

ABOUT LIFE - MY LIFE

"...if you talk to a man in a language he understands that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart..." (Nelson Mandela)

This is my language and if you talk to me as such then you will be talking to my heart and I to yours.

ABOUT ME

I believe that we shouldn't wish or pray for what we have never known, and what humanity has never known, that is, unbroken peace and unmixed blessing. NO - better to wish and pray for pity, for indignation, discontent, the will to see and touch, and the power to do good and make new.

I am an Anthropologist above all and Classical music is the language of my heart and passion. Within Ethnomusicology and Musicology I have found the necessary tools to express my ever present propensity to analyze just about everything I come into contact in the music field. That is, everything that has to do with music, its sounds, people and the social conditions that generate it.

I consider myself a very creative and imaginative person who is especially open to new ideas and ways of thinking about old problems. Normally I will approach a problem in the conventional or traditional way of doing things but then I will walk around to the other side and explore it from a different and hopefully novel perspective. What's new and the unexplored is what interest me the most.

And what is new I view with a high sense of anthropological detachment and then become a witness to my own life. I like to go on adventures of the mind that are both dangerous and daunting always with a contemplative attitude and detachment from preconceived ideas.

Many people inhabit this world but lets face it, there is only one of me and that can not be changed although change is part of my life every day's dynamics.

SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI

And teach we must, for we owe all that we are to those who have been before us and to all those who are yet to come...if they ask.

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Archæology - Tudor Colloge - UK

PhD Dissertation Title: Prolegomena to Any Future Achæology and Prehistory Through Chaos Theory

Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Anthropology - University of California at Santa Cruz - California - USA

Bachelor Thesis Title: Ceramic Designs and Environmental Changes in the American Southwest

TEACHING

Teaching the following courses at the Osher Institute, Carnegie Mellon University :

History of the Symphony Orchestra
History of Opera
History of Ballet
Opera of the Week
Ballet of the Week
History of US Symphony Orchestras
Richard Wagner and the Origin of his Music
Wagner Opera of the Week
The Bel Canto Story
Bel Canto Opera of the Week
Great Jewish Classical Composers

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh - Pennsylvania

CURRENT RESEARCH

Presently researching the life of Dr. William Steinberg, the late Musical Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Some of my research results can be viewed at the following link:

http://william.steinberg.bioproj.googlepages.com

Currently researching as well as curating and editing the following unpublished works by William Henry Fry (1813-1864) a well known Philadelphia classical composer:

The Breaking Heart/Adagio Sostenuto
A Day In The Country
Symphony No. 3 "Hagar in the Wilderness"
Overture to Evangeline
The Dying Soldier
Overture to Aurelia The Vestal
Niagara Symphony
Santa Claus Symphony
Overture To Macbeth

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

MUSIC

Ethnomusicology - History of Music/Opera/Ballet - Pipe Organs - Pedal Harpsichords - Period Instruments - Hall Acoustics - Music Reviews

                      ANTHROPOLOGY

Ethnography - Ethology & Human Behavior - Human Complex Systems Modeling & Simulation - Cultural
Ecology - New Archæology - Paleo Anthropology - Stone Tools Analysis - Pottery Analysis - Remote Sensing

APPLIED SCIENCES

Chaos Theory - Multivariate Catastrophe Theory - Biometeorology - Remote Sensing - Computer Systems Engineering & Human Interfaces

              PHOTOGRAPHY

Medium & Large Format - Black & White - Color - Zone System - Architecture - Nature - Pipe Organs

              PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

At the San Isidro County History Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina. May 6 to July 18, 2005. 38 Large format B&W photos. Title of exhibition: "A Photographic Gate To San Isidro's Historical Landmarks"

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

University of California at Santa Cruz
University of New Mexico
New Mexico Tech
University of Binghamton
Carnegie Mellon University
Smithsonian Institution
Costa Rica National Museum
Honduras National History and Anthropology Museum
New Mexico Laboratory of Anthropology
Orlando History Museum
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Kennedy Space Center
Cape Cañaveral Air Force Station
Digital Equipment Corporation
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Audiophile Audition Music Magazine

FAVORITE CITY - PITTSBURGH

FAVORITE PLACES

519 Alto Street - Santa Fe - New Mexico

Pueblo Bonito ruins - New Mexico

Dinosaur National Park - Colorado

MY OWN FAVORITE PICTURES

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