For this New Sounds listen to new works for lots of drums and other things to beat on, especially the University of North Texas Percussion Ensemble playing music by Graham Fitkin, from a recent recording, "Vespertine Formations." Also, there's music for percussion based on American minimalism, and works informed by Indonesian gamelan. Plus, listen to music from Swedish jazz drummer/composer Bengt Berger inspired by Ghanaian funeral drumming.
PROGRAM # 3200, Percussion Ensembles (First aired on 5/3/11)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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Lou Harrison |
Scenes from Cavafy |
Concerto for Piano & Javanese Gamelan, excerpt [1:30] |
New World 80710 |
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University of North Texas Percussion Ensemble |
Vespertine Formations |
Graham Fitkin: Hook [8:53] |
music.unt.edu/percussion, |
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Gamelan Pacifica, cond. By Jarrad Powell |
Scenes from Cavafy |
Lou Harrison : Concerto for Piano and Javanese Gamelan, mvmt 2: [8:54] |
New World 80710 |
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Bengt Berger |
Bitter Funeral Beer |
Tongsi [4:57] |
ECM #1179 |
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Andy Akiho |
No One to Know One |
21 [9:50] |
Innova 801 |
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UNT Percussion Ensemble |
Vespertine Formations |
Mark Ford - The Surface of Life [12:37] |
See above. |
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