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Sunday, September 22, 2002
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    Program #1825

    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.

PROGRAM #1825, Strawberry Fields/Meditation

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The Beatles

Magical Mystery Tour

Strawberry Fields Forever [4:00]

Apple/EMI #48062**

Bang On A Can

Renegade Heaven

M.Gordon: I Buried Paul [9:30]

Cantaloupe #21001, 212-777-8442; cantaloupe@bangonacan.org , website: www.bangonacan.org

Mike Mainieri Presents

Come Together: Guitar Tribute To The Beatles, Vol. 2

P. DeGruy: Strawberry Fields [4:00]

NYC #6014. 800-266-4NYC or nyc@jazzonln.com

Aki Takahashi

Hyper Beatles Vol. 2

A. Lucier: Nothing Is Real [9:00]

Eastworld #6655. Japanese CD; does not seem to be in print.

Carson Kievman

The Temporary and Tentative Extended Piano

Meditation [23:00]

New Albion #845** (PRMS* or www.newalbion.com )

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Nico Muhly (www.myspace.com/muhly)

Twitchy Renaissance-Infused Minimalism

New Sounds

From the New Sounds Live concerts at Merkin Hall, Nico Muhly presents a series of new electroacoustic ensemble works, combining “twitchy Minimalism” and Renaissance polyphony. Hear brand-new works from "Mothertongue," along with other works, recorded live.

Robert Moran

In Robert Moran's Kitchen

New Sounds

From October 30, 1989, the infamous "cooking show" with composer/raconteur Robert Moran. Recorded while cooking an Indian dinner in John Schaefer's kitchen, for reasons still not entirely clear. Along the way, we hear an "acoustic" version of Cage's 0:00 - for amplification of chopping vegetables and blender. And don't miss the teary conversation as onions are chopped. View the the recipes.

Michael Hedges and Michael Manring

New Sounds

The incredibly gifted and astonishingly original guitarist Michael Hedges left the planet much too soon in 1997. Avant-folk and ever-entertaining, Hedges made brilliant music with alternate tunings, harmonics and was known for striking the guitar’s body and strings with his fingers, palms and knuckles. His close friend and sometime collaborator, electric bass virtuoso Michael Manring, was a genre-bender, before music writers ever discovered that hyphenated term. He started out in the New Age bins, but moved all over with various projects, including the very first New Age-death-metal-jazz-funk-fusion record, among other things, with his “hyperbass”, (a fretless instrument which makes re-tuning mid-piece a little easier). On this October 10, 1987 edition of New Sounds, the two artists visited and played at the WNYC performance studios.

Duke Ellington - www.dukeellington.com

Caravan Variations

New Sounds

Like camels slogging through the sand, the exotic strains of “Caravan,” by Duke Ellington and his sometime trombonist Juan Tizol (with rarely heard lyrics by Irving Mills), have been played loose, fast, swinging, and/or slow by just about everyone. For this New Sounds program, it’s another of the occasional series of programs of Theme and Variations, where the premise is simple: take a single piece of music and explore what a number of musicians have done with it, through arrangements, deconstructions, and revisions of the original theme. This time around, it’s Duke Ellington’s “Caravan.” Listen to arrangements by Romania’s Fanfare Ciocarlia, Hungary’s Kalman Balogh & The Gipsy Cimbalom Band, the California Guitar Trio, the ska group Hepcat, banjoman Bela Fleck, Lebanese composer Rabih Abou-Khalil, and trumpeter/composer Jon Hassell, among others.