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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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  • Wendy Sutter Philip Glass CD Cover

    Songs and Poems

    Composer Philip Glass and cellist Wendy Sutter present Glass's major new seven-movement work for solo cello, "Songs and Poems" for this edition of New Sounds. The pieces are intense, dark, and beautiful, at times reminiscent of Bach and but also steeped in the romantics. There is definitely an awareness of using the cello’s range to sing and approximate the human voice, and Sutter’s playing is lyrical and warm, invoking comparisons to late Mstislav Rostropovich, and less brutal Janos Starker. We’ll hear highlights from the recording, which also contains “Tissues,” for cello, piano and percussion (2002), written for the original soundtrack recording to Godfrey Reggio's Naqoyqatsi.

PROGRAM #2790, Glass & Sutter (First aired on Wednesday, 4-16-08)


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Philip Glass

Songs and Poems for Solo Cello

Songs I-VII [32:00] Tissues 7+6 [3:00 + 3:00]

Orange Mountain #0037 **
www.orangemountainmusic.com
www.philipglass.com*

Shoghaken Ensemble

Traditional Dances of Armenia

Shatakhi Dzernaper [2:30]

Traditional Crossroads #4322 www.traditionalcrossroads.com

Comments

  • [1] Gregory Mortenson from TriBeCa April 16, 2008 - 02:28PM

    I am greatly looking forward to tonight's broadcast, but am also wondering if there is a way to stream previous shows?
  • [2] eric from New York April 16, 2008 - 08:05PM

    Gregory, click "Archives" under "Links" in the grey box to the right. You can get selected programs by the date of the broadcast.
  • [3] Eliza Proctor from Brooklyn April 16, 2008 - 10:51PM

    Is it true that the artist who did the artwork for 'Songs and Poems', Erika Haarsch, is going to be with you tonight also?
  • [4] Gregory Mortenson from TriBeCa April 17, 2008 - 12:51PM

    Eric! Thank you so much! I feel like I have been shown the way to a gold mine.

This thread is closed.


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.

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