This New Sounds brings musical accompaniment for drama in the form of the Portico Quartet, a young instrumental band, who play mostly acoustic music using wind instruments, bass and percussion, including a 21^st century instrument called the hang.  (The hang is a dimpled dome-shaped, tuned metal percussion instrument that sounds like a cross between the steel drum and the mbira (thumb piano) and looks like two woks welded together.)

We’ll hear from their new record, “Isla.”  Also, we’ll hear from The Young Scamels, a group related to Rachel’s, and their brilliant soundtrack to a production of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” Plus, there’s music from England’s Cinematic Orchestra, and their score to the silent film, “Man with a Movie Camera,” and more.

PROGRAM #3120,  Dramatic Accompaniment   (First aired on 9/27/2010)