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October 30, 2009
Keeping Good Company
I had expected to have two new CDs and a book out this fall, but two of them have been delayed until February. One of the CDs, however, has arrived, titled The Minimalists, by the Orkest de Volharding on Mode Records (Mode 214/5). It's a two-CD set, and the lineup consists of:Steve Reich: City Life
Terry Riley: In C
Louis Andriessen: Worker's Union
Kyle Gann: Sunken City
John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
David Lang: Street
Sunken City, of course, is my piano concerto commemorating the disaster in New Orleans that attended hurricane Katrina; the august Geoffrey Douglas Madge performs as soloist. A couple of the pieces, at least City Life, are arrangements for the Volharding's instrumentation by composer/director Anthony Fiumara. It's a damn shame that the Volharding has apparently ceased to exist now, having been defunded by the Dutch government, but I'm very happy that they held on long enough to get this CD out as their last act. It'll be on sale this weekend at the Cage Trust's Cage conference at Bard College. And it's in time for the holidays!
Originally from PostClassic, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Oct 30, 2009 at 05:10 AM