#3020: Best of the Decade

New Sounds | May 24, 2010

For this New Sounds, we'll try to sum up in just one hour some of the major trends, movements, and the best recordings of the past decade. Listen to some "Nu Jazz," from the revolutionary piano trio The Bad Plus, along with some Americana from the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack, and some desert trance blues from Tinariwen. Plus, music from breakout composer Nico Muhly along with music by Steve Reich, as performed by the new music chamber orchestra Alarm Will Sound. John Adams' work, "On the Transmigration of Souls" rounds out the show.

PROGRAM # 3020 Best of the 00’s (First aired on Thurs. 12/31/09)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
Tinariwen	Amassakoul	Assoul [4:06]	World Village 468026 www.worldvillagemusic.com
Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble	Silk Road Journeys	Filippo Azzaiolo: Chi passa per’sta strada [4:45]	Sony Classical 89782 www.sonyclassical.com
Osvaldo Golijov / Dawn Upshaw	Ayre	Wa Habibi (My Love) [6:00]	Deutsche Grammaophon #B0004782** www.deutschegrammophon.com*
The Soggy Bottom Boys	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow [3:13]	Mercury #170 069** also available at Amazon.com*
Alarm Will Sound, conducted by Alan Pierson	Tehillim/The Desert Music	Steve Reich: Tehillim, Part 3, excerpt	Cantaloupe #21009 www.cantaloupemusic.com
Nico Muhly	Mothertongue	Mothertongue 3 Hress [3:53]	Brassland #018** www.brassland.org
The Bad Plus	Give	1979 Semi-Finalist [5:18]	Columbia #58331** www.thebadplus.com *
Rachel’s	New Sounds Live, 5/26/06	Tea Merchants [4:38]	This recording not commercially available. A version of the piece appears on “The Sea and the Bells,” available on Quarterstick Records, through Touch and Go. www.touchandgorecords.com
John Adams	On the Transmigration Of Souls	Excerpt [10:00]	Nonesuch #79816 ** www.nonesuch.com

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