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August 11, 2005

String Quartet No. 4 (1970). Alan Hovhaness /*****/

Creeping starism...

  1. Paint the Silence. South.
  2. String Quartet No. 4. Adagio Ma No Troppo. Alan Hovhaness. Shanghai Quartet.
  3. El Salon Mexico. Aaron Copland (arranged for piano by Leonard Bernstein). Eugenie Russo.
  4. The Cat. Jimmy Smith. Kudos to my recently deceased Oklahoma grandmother-in-law. Who knew she had such jazz tastes?
  5. Yellow. Petra Haden and Bill Frisell. A Coldplay song by real musicians.
  6. Sonntag. Alexander Hacke. From a recent The Wire CD.
  7. The Duel. Dexter Gordon. Boldface or italicize?
  8. Piano Sonata Op. 26: Adagio mesto. Samuel Barber. Emanuele Arciuli. 1999 CD of the Year?
  9. Piano Sonata Op. 26: Fuga-Allegro con spirito. Samuel Barber. Emanuele Arciuli. Did I mention how good the CD is?
  10. Salvese Quien Pueda: Juana's Epic Re-Version (Edit). Juana Molina. From the same The Wire CD.
  11. I Loves You, Porgy. Sun Ra.
  12. Concerto in D minor: Andante. Vivaldi. Guillou. For organ. What's up with his "new" work?
  13. Arias, Interludes And Inventions (5). Robert Moran. Jayne West, Soprano / Piano Circus Band. Not enough attention on Robert Moran.
  14. M'bifé (Balafon). Amadou & Miriam. New album.
  15. Artistiya. Amadou & Miriam. Did I mention they have a new album out?
  16. Arias, Interludes And Inventions (2). Robert Moran. Jayne West, Soprano / Piano Circus Band. Did I mention Moran deserves more attention?

The most American aworks post is here, inspired by the music of Alan Hovhaness. Since then, I don't really have any major new thoughts on religion, the Amish, Alan Hovhaness, Hoosier mores, or American Muslims. I can say I'm much more aware of China (Hi Norman. Hi Wayne) and I do sometimes wonder if after A Love Supreme, John Coltrane practiced nihlism.

300pxford_pintoIn 1970 according to Wikipedia, Charles Wuorinen, at age 32, won the Pulitzer Prize, Davy Jones left the Monkees, Randy Bachman started Bachman Turner Overdive and Black Sabbath released Black Sabbath. I was probably listening to Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4, If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot and/or Santana's Black Magic Woman. By this time, I knew who Ferde Grofe was (Hi Mrs. Merrill). I remember buying the singles Venus by Shocking Blue and Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin. I also vaguely remember Bobby Sherman. George Crumb wrote Ancient Voices of Children and Ligeti wrote Continuum but it took me another twenty years before I "grokked" contemporary classical...

Originally posted by Robert Gable from aworks :: "new" american classical music, ReBlogged by jeff on Aug 11, 2005 at 02:16 PM

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