February 21 , 1917Cleveland, Ohio March 8 , 1965New York City, New York Tadd Dameron, byname of Tadley Ewing Dameron (born February 21 , 1917 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. died March 8 , 1965 New York, New York) American jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, especially noted during the bop era for the melodic beauty and warmth of the songs he composed.
Reviewing the 1986 production, Henahan wrote that despite the inept libretto the work was saved by the "melodic suppleness and warmth" of Bizet's score.
The scholar Nick Sandon has meticulously filled in the gaps; every new phrase in his editions fits with the Tudor idiom, which favors soaring melodic lines and harmonic warmth.
There is often more earthy warmth in his melodic writing, a kind of undamaged folkish innocence, and yet much of the later music exudes a wide-open strangeness that suggests a man in a suit wandering in a desert.
That warmth, along with a melodic inventiveness that matched his modern harmonic imagination, made him an ideal candidate for mid-sixties pop-crossover, but the resulting fame often overshadowed his hard-driving artistry.
The accessible, post-Kanye warmth of 'Camp', with its '70s-soulful melodic touches and chunky, party beats has shifted on 'Because The Internet' to something harder, less concerned with being liked or comfortable.
This work has textures that are melodic, focused and entirely consonant, and they demanded a warmth of tone and an intensity of focus that set the work apart from the rest of the program.
But the right way to play Bruckner seems particularly hard-wired into its make up – how to bring luminosity as well as weight to the textures, warmth as well as intensity to the long melodic lines, and above all how to generate huge, spell-binding climaxes without ever making them uncomfortably overbearing – something the Barbican's resident orchestra would do well to learn from.
The expanded brass section was bold and tireless, the woodwind solos vividly characterised, and the strings supplied a tonal warmth that retained a distinctive patina in the hesitant melodic flow of the slow movement.
