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Sunday, December 10, 2006
  • Must Have Festival 2006

    Must Have Festival 2006: Contest Winner

    And the winner is...Ricky Ian Gordon! Ricky is a composer of unusual scope. He is equally at home writing for the concert hall, opera, dance, theater and film and his songs and song cycles have been performed, as well as recorded, by many internationally acclaimed singers. Past highlights of Ricky Ian Gordon’s all-encompassing career to date include: Only Heaven, with a libretto by Langston Hughes, recorded on PS Classics; Stonewall/ Night Variations, States of Independence, and Autumn Valentine, the latter to texts by Dorothy Parker. Listen to Ricky's winning essay tonight and find out what recordings he can't live without as the Must Have Festival concludes on WNYC.

Ricky Ian Gordon  (Photo Credit: Duncan Hannah)

Ricky Ian Gordon's Picks

Mahler - Kindertotenlieder and Songs of a Wayfarer (Dame Janet Baker)
Britten - Peter Grimes (Pears/Britten recording)
Britten - Death in Venice (Pears recording)
Bach - St. Matthew Passion (Otto Klemperer conducting)
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 14 (Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra)
Barber - Vanessa (original recording)

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Links

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69th American Music Festival: American Blend

May 21-22, at 7pm; May 23-24 at 8pm; May 25-27 at 7pm

Hosts Terrance McKnight and David Garland will curate and host a weeklong festival with special guests and rare recordings, concluding with live performances in WNYC's Jerome L. Greene Performance Space by Dafnis Prieto, Paola Prestini, Ezequiel Vinao and Yungchen Lhamo May 27.

globalFEST 2009

Listen on Demand

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Deerhoof/Metropolis Ensemble

Live Webcast

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