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Program #1983
In what has become a cult holiday tradition, composer Phil Kline and a band of friends go "electronic caroling" through the streets of Greenwich Village with a parade of boomboxes. He calls the annual performance Unsilent Night, and it always manages to turn heads, even among seen-it-all New Yorkers. During the procession, each boombox plays a separate tape which is part of the overall piece - an effect Kline calls "a city block-long stereo system." On this edition of New Sounds, he drops by the studio to discuss the ten-year-old tradition. We also hear excerpts from the CD of the work, released on Cantaloupe Music.
PROGRAM # 1983 Holiday music with Phil Kline and the Andy
Statman Trio
(First aired on 12/13/01)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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Andy Statman |
Hidden Light |
Hidden Light [1:30] |
Sony Classical #60814** www.sonyclassical.com * |
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Phil Kline |
Unsilent Night |
The Milky Way [9:00] The Crossing [3:00] From Light [4:00] Schönes Klang [5:30] Angels of Avenue A [3:30] |
Cantaloupe Music #21005** www.cantaloupemusic.com or cantaloupe@bangonacan.org |
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Andy Statman Trio |
live |
Modzitz Melody [8:00] Khuizimir Melody [3:00] Cherokee Shuffle [9:00] |
Statman's most recent CDs include "Hidden Light" (see above) and "Between Heaven and Earth - Music of the Jewish Mystics" on Shanachie Records (www.shanachie.com ) |
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