#4758, New Sounds Live: Meredith Monk & Bang On A Can All-Stars, From Pioneer Works, Part 2
From the New Sounds Live concert series, hear collaborative work from Meredith Monk and her Vocal Ensemble (featuring Theo Bleckmann, Katie Geissinger, and Allison Sniffin) and the hybrid electric chamber music band Bang on a Can All-Stars, recorded at Pioneer Works. Listen to Monk’s varied theatrical productions since the early 1980s in new arrangements, as well as new versions of pieces originally released on impermanence (2008), (Cantaloupe liner notes). Originally intended to open the 2020 Bang on a Can Long Play Festival, this premiere also celebrated Meredith Monk’s 80th Birthday Year. Listen to portions of that evening, recorded before a sold-out audience in May 2023.
Also, from Dublin, listen to the world premiere of Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy's work, Limina – a piano chamber concerto written for pianist Eliza McCarthy and performed by Crash Ensemble. - Caryn Havlik
Program #4758, Meredith Monk/Bang On A Can from NSL, and Donnacha Dennehy's Limina (First aired 6/6/23)
ARTIST: Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble, Bang on a Can All-Stars
WORK: Impermanence: Totentanz [2:30]
RECORDING: New Sounds Live at Pioneer Works, May 5, 2023
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: Memory Game is out on Cantaloupe Music | bangonacan.bandcamp.com/album/memory-game
ARTIST: Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble, Bang on a Can All-Stars
WORK: The Politics of Quiet: Waltz in 5s [3:53]
RECORDING: New Sounds Live at Pioneer Works, May 5, 2023
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: Memory Game is out on Cantaloupe Music | bangonacan.bandcamp.com/album/memory-game
ARTIST: Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble, Bang on a Can All-Stars
WORK: Turtle Dreams Cabaret: Tokyo Cha Cha [9:44]
RECORDING: New Sounds Live at Pioneer Works, May 5, 2023
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: Memory Game is out on Cantaloupe Music | bangonacan.bandcamp.com/album/memory-game
ARTIST: Eliza McCarthy, piano; Crash Ensemble; cond. Ryan McAdams
WORK: Donnacha Dennehy: Limina [27:51]
RECORDING: The Studio, National Concert Hall, Dublin, April 2023
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: wisemusicclassical.com
ARTIST: Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble, Bang on a Can All-Stars
WORK: The Tale [2:07]
RECORDING: New Sounds Live at Pioneer Works, May 5, 2023
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: Memory Game is out on Cantaloupe Music | bangonacan.bandcamp.com/album/memory-game
Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble
Theo Bleckmann, Katie Geissinger, Meredith Monk, Allison Sniffin: voices
Allison Sniffin: bowed psaltery
Bang on a Can All-Stars
Ashley Bathgate: cello and voice
Robert Black: electric and acoustic bass
Vicky Chow: piano, keyboard and melodica
David Cossin: percussion
Mark Stewart: electric guitar, banjo and voice
Ken Thomson: clarinets and saxophones
