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Unsilent Night
At Christmas, musical customs abound, even if some traditions seem rather unconventional. Rule-breaking composer Phil Kline visits for a conversation about his 11th-annual boombox Christmas carol, Unsilent Night. As composer/director for the Tibetan Singing Bowl Ensemble, Raphael Mostel has created a multimedia theater work based on the most beloved elephant in children’s literature. He discusses his new musical, The Travels of Babar. Plus, John McGlynn, cofounder of the Irish choir Anuna, gives stateside fans a preview of what the ensemble’s got cooking for its first-ever American tour.
More about Phil Kline and Unsilent Night
Not only has The Travels of Babar featured such celebrity narrators as actors
Phylicia Rashad and Jerry Stiller, it was also New York City Opera Education’s
first time presenting work by a living composer in its Opera is Elementary program.
More about Raphael Mostel
Among Anuna’s Celtic-inspired recordings are a new collection of rearranged
Christmas songs and an album celebrating the ensemble’s 15th anniversary
this year.
More about Anuna
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Sound Off
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Throughout May, Soundcheck presents “Sound Off” a Friday series on the many aspects of noise in music and our lives. The series -- which coincides with “Better Hearing and Speech Month” -- looks at issues like New York’s noisiest neighborhoods, the latest research on iPods and hearing loss, and what happens when noise becomes a musical ingredient.