#2116: Program #2116

New Sounds | May 24, 2010
Ancient words set to new music are featured on tonight's New Sounds. Highlights include Philip Glass's Akhnaten, the acclaimed opera which describes the rise, reign, and fall of the Paraoh through a series of minimalist tableaux. Syrian composer Abed Azrie has resuscitated the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh and he draws on Eastern and Western compositional influences in the process. Jim Berenholtz's The Psalms of RA features Egyptian and Hebrew texts, many derived from The Book of the Dead. The work symbolizes the passage of a day from sunrise to sunset to sunrise again, all performed by a 46-piece acoustic band of Western and non-Western musical instruments. Also on the show is SAVAE's majestic Ancient Echoes.

PROGRAM #2116 New Music, Ancient Texts (First aired on 1/27/03)

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Abed Azrie

Epic of Gilgamesh

The Shepherds [2:30]
Gilgamesh's Refusal [4:00]
Death of Enkidu [4:00]

Auvidis #6800
Available for purchase at Amazon.com*

SAVAE

Ancient Echoes

Rannanu [6:00]

World Library Publication
Available for purchase at Amazon.com*

Philip Glass

Glassmasters

Akhnaten, Funeral Dance, Act. I [9:00]

Sony #62960
Available for purchase at Amazon.com*

R. Murray Schaefer

Ra

Aria of Hasroet [8:00]

Centrediscs LP (out of print)

Jim Berenholtz

The Psalms of Ra

Tua Ra [4:30]

www.psalmsofra.com
OR through www.cdbaby.com

Michael Nyman

Time Will Pronounce

Self-laudatory hymn of inanna and her omnipotence [13:55]

Argo #440282
Available for purchase at Amazon.com*

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