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New Sounds

Sunday, May 25, 2003
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    Program #1917

    A diverse array of songs for voice and strings are featured on this edition of New Sounds. We hear "One Body," the chamber cantata for countertenor, string quartet, and percussion, written for and sung by the remarkable New York-based singer Bruce Rameker, texts by Walt Whitman, Kenneth Patchen, Joy Harjo, Gary Snyder, and others. Plus, "Butterfly Song," an otherworldly, ethereal song by Jocelyn Pook, Donna McKevitt's "Sebastiane," and Gavin Bryars's "Vita Nova."

PROGRAM #1917, music for voice & bowed strings (First aired on May 14, 2001)

ARTIST(S)

RECORDING

CUT(S)

SOURCE

John Kennedy

One Body

One Body - the Universal Procession [4:00]

SFNM #000512. Available online at www.sfnm.com

Donna McKevitt/Derek Jarman

Translucence

Sebastiane [6:30]

Teldec #22500. This CD withdrawn from circulation. A new CD release of this work is due in late 2001.

Gavin Bryars

Vita Nova

Incipit Vita Nova [6:00]

ECM #1533** www.ecmrecords.com

John Kennedy

One Body

The Body of Gaia [8:00]

See above.

Jocelyn Pook

Untold Things

Butterfly Song [3:30]

Real World #CDRW-93**
www.realworld.co.uk

Kronos Quartet

Night Prayers

Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsy: Lacrymosa [6:00]

Nonesuch #79346**

John Potter, John Surman, et. al.

John Dowland: In Darkness Let Me Dwell

Go Crystal Tears [8:00]

ECM #1697** www.ecmrecords.com

Eileen Clark & Matt Haimovitz

Lemons Descending

Hildegard von Bingen: Slice for Saint Ursula [4:00]

Oxingale Records, for info go to www.oxingale.com

*, ** - Find the recordings you've heard - go to the New Sounds Recordings Information page

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