PROGRAM #2763, Siren Songs: Music Inspired By Homer’s Odyssey (First aired on Monday, 2-4-08)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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The Stranglers |
La Folie |
Golden Brown, excerpt [1:00] |
EMI Available on Amazon.com* or download from iTunes |
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Laurel MacDonald |
Luscinia’s Lullaby |
Nenia Sirenes [5:00] |
Improbable Music #04 www.improbablemusic.com * |
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Maija Eindelde |
At The Edge of the Earth (Pie Zemes Talas) |
Isle of the Sirens [6:30] |
Latvijas Radio www.music.lv/Composers |
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Laurel MacDonald |
Luscinia’s Lullaby |
Sirenaria [6:30] |
See above. |
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David Bedford |
The Odyssey |
The Sirens [10:00] |
Virgin #2040
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Britten/Bliss/Holst: Gustav Holst |
Holst Singers & Orchestra |
Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda; Hymn to the Dawn [3:00] |
Hyperion #66175 www.hyperion-records.co.uk |
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Bill Laswell |
Filmtracks 2000 |
Siren Song [3:30] |
Tzadik #7511 www.tzadik.com |
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Johnny Reinhardt & American Festival of Microtonal Music |
The Odyssey |
Ilium To Ismaros / Lotus Eater Island [3:30] |
www.afmm.org or download from emusic.com |
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Bill Laswell |
Filmstracks 2000 |
The Odyssey [2:00] |
See above. |
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Comments [1]
Loved the show. Some great examples of the sorts of evocative feelings capable of being unleashed through music.
However, I have to think that the “Sirens to Scylla and Charybdis” section from Johnny Reinhardt & American Festival of Microtonal Music was a rather direct, if clunky, rip of the “Creature from the Id” theme (and a few other sections) of the wonderful “Forbidden Planet” soundtrack by Louis and Bebe Barron. Would love to hear something from those pioneers on a themed show like this.
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