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Episode #1870

Program #1870

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Saturday, January 04, 2003

From the New Sounds Live concert series at the World Financial Center, we hear Stephen Scott and the Bowed Piano Ensemble perform works for bowed, struck, plucked and rubbed piano strings. Scott's interest in bowed piano dates from the mid-70s when he heard the striking effect created by drawing a nylon fishing line across piano strings. He quickly began to imagine what the effect might be if several players did this at the same time. As many as ten players perform each piece, allowing for such effects as hocketing, in which a single melodic line in divided between more than one musician. Featured here is part one of his large-scale work, Vikings Of The Sunrise.

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PROGRAM # 1870, from New Sounds Live at the World Financial Center (First aired on January 17, 2001)

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Stephen Scott and the Bowed Piano Ensemble

Live, World Financial Center's Winter Garden, October 25, 2000

Entrada [8:00]

Rainbows I [6:00]

Vikings Of The Sunrise, Part One [34:00]

Except for Entrada, each of these pieces is available on CD. Scott's recordings are available through Amazon.com
New Music for Bowed Piano *

Minerva's Web *
Vikings of the Sunrise*
OR
through New Albion Records** www.newalbion.com

Find the recordings you've heard - go to the New Sounds Recordings Information page

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