Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
Excerpts from my Sonate pour Anita DeFrancesco. Randolph Pitts holds Summa Cum Laude degrees in Social Psychology and Egyptology from the University of California Berkeley, and a Masters Degree in Motion Picture Production and Entertainment Law from UCLA. He has also done advanced research for the Department of Psychology at UCLA, concentrating on couples and relationships dynamics. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Philosophical Association, the organization of university professors of Philosophy. He is also an associate member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Randolph has been a top executive at several entertainment companies, including a ten year stint as Chief Executive Officer of the company that produced Leaving Las Vegas for which Nicolas Cage won the Academy Award as best actor. The first volume of his eagerly anticipated tetralogy of novels will be published during 2022. Pitts' spellbinding novels deal at an unrelenting fever pitch with eroticism, mysticism, terrorism and crime on a global scale. And also… with women and men falling in love.. As a composer he has written pieces in all genres, including works for vocal orchestra and soloists ("A Cabaret for Cesare Pavese," "Der Schatten eines Traumes," "Das Buch der Blauen Rose"), chamber music (strings quartets and a sextet), concertos ("Concerto for String Orchestra," "Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra dedicato ad Anita DeFrancesco"), the large orchestral piece "Love-- for Three Orchestras and Large Organ"), and chamber works for vocalist and small ensemble ("Le sang des rêves.") He has a lifelong interest in the relationship between philosophy, psychology and history. He is the founder and host of the Explore Ecstatic Sensuality podcast, the number one sex and sensuality podcast in the world. Musical excerpts: Randolph Pitts, "Sonate pour Anita" (dedicated to Anita DeFrancesco)
Excerpts from my Sonate pour Anita DeFrancesco. Randolph Pitts holds Summa Cum Laude degrees in Social Psychology and Egyptology from the University of California Berkeley, and a Masters Degree in Motion Picture Production and Entertainment Law from UCLA. He has also done advanced research for the Department of Psychology at UCLA, concentrating on couples and relationships dynamics. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Philosophical Association, the organization of university professors of Philosophy. He is also an associate member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Randolph has been a top executive at several entertainment companies, including a ten year stint as Chief Executive Officer of the company that produced Leaving Las Vegas for which Nicolas Cage won the Academy Award as best actor. The first volume of his eagerly anticipated tetralogy of novels will be published during 2022. Pitts' spellbinding novels deal at an unrelenting fever pitch with eroticism, mysticism, terrorism and crime on a global scale. And also… with women and men falling in love.. As a composer he has written pieces in all genres, including works for vocal orchestra and soloists ("A Cabaret for Cesare Pavese," "Der Schatten eines Traumes," "Das Buch der Blauen Rose"), chamber music (strings quartets and a sextet), concertos ("Concerto for String Orchestra," "Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra dedicato ad Anita DeFrancesco"), the large orchestral piece "Love-- for Three Orchestras and Large Organ"), and chamber works for vocalist and small ensemble ("Le sang des rêves.") He has a lifelong interest in the relationship between philosophy, psychology and history. He is the founder and host of the Explore Ecstatic Sensuality podcast, the number one sex and sensuality podcast in the world. Musical excerpts: Randolph Pitts, "Sonate pour Anita" (dedicated to Anita DeFrancesco)
![Renè Koering, Sonate - Michaël Levinas, piano [part 2 of 2]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JMz1q6nEoFg/mqdefault.jpg "Renè Koering, Sonate - Michaël Levinas, piano [part 2 of 2]
Ecrite en 1974, elle fut créé au Festival de Royan et donnée quelques jour plus tard à Boston per Herbert Henck. Maurice Fleuret, que y voyait la grande sonate romantique après Berg na sy trompait guère, puisque je voulais écrite une sonate dont les racines étaient chez Berg et qui de là rencontrait le languate qui était naturellement le mien : celui de la grande 2e Sonate de Boulez.
Les différents « moments » de le œuvre simposaient tout naturellement comme par exemple le fugato au début de lœuvre dont multiples voix allaient se résorber dans les « étoiles » du scherzo de la fin. Un autre élément que je ne voulais par éviter, st celui de la virtuosité pianistique, qui appliquée avec un certain sadisme, fait évoluer souvent la phrase dans un sens non prévisible.
Nombreux sont les passages qui, rédigés ou distribuées autrement aux deux mains du pianiste, lauraient amenée vers dautres possibilités sonores ce choix né du tumulte me fait parfois penser à ce que lon appelait autre-fois « un programme ». Sans me lavouer, ce programme préexistait mais quel peut-il être ?
A la musique de répondre.
René Koering
Né à Andiau (Alsace) en 1940, René Koering étudia la musique à Darmstadt dans les années Soixante. En 1961, création de sa première œuvre, commande des « Musiktage » de Donaueschingen. En 1967, il se voit attribuer le Prix de la « Fondation de la Vocation » et le Premier Prix de la Fondation Maeght. Ses œuvres (musique symphonique, concertos, œuvres électroaccostiques, musique de chambre et opéras) furent données dans divers festivals. Depuis 1971, il enseigne à lEcole des Beaux-Arts. Vice-Président de la Société Internaitonal de Musique Contemporaine, il occupe pas ailleurs dimportantes fonctions au sein de Radio France.
Michaël Levinas
Son père est le philosophe Emmanuel Levinas. Après des études au Conservatoire de Paris (Yvonne Loriod, Olivier Messiaen) où il obtient de nombreux premiers prix, Michaël Levinas effectue des stages au GRM, suit des cours à Darmstadt (Xenakis, Stockhausen, Ligeti) et, en 1974, devient co-fondateur puis responsable de lensemble lItinéraire. Pianiste concertiste international, il enseigne lanalyse au Conservatoire de Paris depuis 1992.
Dès les premières œuvres, en marge du sérialisme, Michaël Levinas développe un style singulier dune extraordinaire puissance expressive.")
