New Sounds

Program #1825

Show #1825

Sunday, September 22, 2002

The Beatles psychedelic masterpiece "Strawberry Fields Forever" has inspired its share of musical decendants, several of which will be presented on this edition of New Sounds. "I Buried Paul" by Bang on a Can's Michael Gordon refers to the piece vividly (so much that you expect to hear the mumbled voice of John Lennon intoning "cranberry sauce," a line that was subsequently interpreted as "I buried Paul."). Alvin Lucier's "Nothing Is Real" is based on piano fragments of the "Strawberry Fields" melody -– played through a teapot with microphone inside. And Carson Kievman's astoundingly beautiful 1998 piano work "Meditation" is no less imaginative and far reaching -- a testament to the Fab Four's continuing influence to this day.And Carson Kievman's astoundingly beautiful and emotionally powerful 19-minute Meditation isno less imaginative and far reaching.

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