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Bang on a Tank
Hear melodious beatings on this New Sounds program as featured in different works by Lou Harrison, Steve Reich, and Aaron J. Kernis. In the early 1970's, Harrison and his partner devised an "American Gamelan" of aluminum tubes and slabs with #10 tin can resonators, and modified oxygen tanks suspended in wooden frames. Hear it together with the violin in his "Suite for Violin and American Gamelan." Also on the show is Reich’s “Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ,” a hypnotic work of repeating musical patterns, duplicated and layered out of phase, which gradually slow down. Plus, listen to “Musica Celestis” by Aaron J. Kernis, an ethereal and soaring response to Hildegard of Bingen’s poetic imagery of angels singing God's praises eternally.
PROGRAM #2224, Kernis, Harrison, Reich (First aired on 12/3/03)
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RECORDING |
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Aaron J. Kernis |
On Wings of Light |
IO [5:00] |
Not commercially available. |
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Lou Harrison |
La Koro Sutro |
Suite for Violin & American Gamelan, excerpts [12:30] |
New Albion #015** www.newalbion.com |
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Steve Reich |
The Four Sections |
Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organ [17:00] |
Nonesuch #79220** www.nonesuch.com OR Amazon.com* |
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Aaron J. Kernis |
Symphony In Waves/Musica Celestis |
Musica Celestis [12:20] |
Argo#448 900. Out of print, but try Amazon.com* |
*, ** - Find the recordings you've heard - go to the New Sounds Recordings Information page
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