Episode #2868
Nearly Sacred Choral Music
Thursday, November 13, 2008
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Musica Sacra
Musica Sacra, the renowned New York-based chorus, performs music by Meredith Monk and the abbess Hildegard von Bingen. Also, listen to excerpts from Morton Feldman's masterwork "Rothko Chapel," and "Atmospheres" by Gyorgy Ligeti. Feldman’s powerfully communicative work, “Rothko Chapel,” is a tribute for his friend, the American abstract expressionist painter, Mark Rothko (1903 -1970), and suggests a divine music, appropriate to the sombre spirituality of Rothko’s chapel. Ligeti’s "Atmospheres" for orchestra, with its tangled webs of dense texture and very slow changes, is a radical exploration of negation, and sometimes is called “stasis music.”
PROGRAM # 2868, choral music (First aired on Thurs, 11/13/08)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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Music Sacra |
Monk and the Abbess |
Hildegard von Bingen: O Ecclesia [7:00] Meredith Monk: Quarry Weave 2 [5:00] Nightfall [9:00] |
BMG Catalyst #68329. Now out of print, but try Amazon.com* |
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Morton Feldman |
Rothko Chapel |
Excerpts [8:00] |
New Albion #039** www.newalbion.com * |
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Gavin Bryars |
On Photography |
Expressa Solis, excerpt [12:00] |
GB Records #07 www.gavinbryars.com * |
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Maija Einfelde |
Pie Zemes Talas (At The Edge of the Earth) |
My Childhood Home [8:30] |
Latvijas Radio #033. www.radio.org.lv/koris/index.htm |
Comments [4]
Thanks very much for the info. about the up-coming Musica Sacra concert.
I'm really looking forward to this event...
gazing out on to the horizon ~
Also, I'm pleased that the archive edition of New Sounds, Nov. 13, 2008, is free of promotional/commercial advertising...
(no pasta sauce, thank you)
Dear Vic,
The concert will not be broadcast live on November 18th. Rather, it will be recorded for later broadcast on a future date.
We also hope to make the whole concert available as a streaming archive as soon as possible after we record it.
Thanks for listening,
The Assistant
Will this concert of MUSICA SACRA on Nov. 18th be broadcast LIVE on WNYC, or is it being recorded for a future date?
Will it also become available in the on-line archives?
so many places to go ~
relax
close your eyes
and breathe
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