Gamelan Plus (Special Podcast)
04/28/15 • 56 min
Listen to works that include gamelan, but take a more western approach for this New Sounds - like combining Celtic traditional music and Indonesian gamelan in music from Gamelan Son of Lion and composer/sax player and bagpiper Matthew Welch. In the music of Barbara Benary, the co-founder and guiding spirit of Gamelan Son of Lion, there is a juxtaposition of Cape Breton Celtic singing, gamelan and Benary herself on violin. Also, hear the Celtic-Balinese tapestry of Matthew Welch’s chamber rock hybrid Blarvuster with its Scottish bagpipes, Balinese gamelan, and Welch’s vocalizing in Indonesian. Plus, Lou Harrison’s "Threnody for Carlos Chavez," written for viola and gamelan ensemble, and music from NYC-based Patrick Grant, who serves his post-minimalism with a twist of Rock and Balinese gamelan. That, and more.
PROGRAM #3691 Gamelan Plus (First aired on 2/3/2015)
ARTIST(S)
RECORDING
CUT(S)
SOURCE
Gamelan Son of Lion
Sonogram
John Morton: She (really) Had To Go [9:23]
Innova 718 innova.mu
Patrick Grant
Patrick Grant
Fields Amaze [8:35]
Available at cdbaby.com
Gamelan Son of Lion
Sonogram
Barbara Benary: Jigalullaby [8:23]
Innova 718 innova.mu
Matthew Welch & Blarvuster
Blarvuster
Canntaireachd Masolah I [6:23]
Tzadik 8077 tzadik.com
Lou Harrison
Drums Along The Pacific
Threnody for Carlos Chavez [8:00]
New Albion #122 Out of print, but available as a download via Amazon
Bill Alves (performed by Susan Jensen, violin; The HMC American Gamelan)
Mystic Canyon
Mystic Canyon for Violin and Gamelan [5:20]
MicroFest Records Amazon
Listen to works that include gamelan, but take a more western approach for this New Sounds - like combining Celtic traditional music and Indonesian gamelan in music from Gamelan Son of Lion and composer/sax player and bagpiper Matthew Welch. In the music of Barbara Benary, the co-founder and guiding spirit of Gamelan Son of Lion, there is a juxtaposition of Cape Breton Celtic singing, gamelan and Benary herself on violin. Also, hear the Celtic-Balinese tapestry of Matthew Welch’s chamber rock hybrid Blarvuster with its Scottish bagpipes, Balinese gamelan, and Welch’s vocalizing in Indonesian. Plus, Lou Harrison’s "Threnody for Carlos Chavez," written for viola and gamelan ensemble, and music from NYC-based Patrick Grant, who serves his post-minimalism with a twist of Rock and Balinese gamelan. That, and more.
PROGRAM #3691 Gamelan Plus (First aired on 2/3/2015)
ARTIST(S)
RECORDING
CUT(S)
SOURCE
Gamelan Son of Lion
Sonogram
John Morton: She (really) Had To Go [9:23]
Innova 718 innova.mu
Patrick Grant
Patrick Grant
Fields Amaze [8:35]
Available at cdbaby.com
Gamelan Son of Lion
Sonogram
Barbara Benary: Jigalullaby [8:23]
Innova 718 innova.mu
Matthew Welch & Blarvuster
Blarvuster
Canntaireachd Masolah I [6:23]
Tzadik 8077 tzadik.com
Lou Harrison
Drums Along The Pacific
Threnody for Carlos Chavez [8:00]
New Albion #122 Out of print, but available as a download via Amazon
Bill Alves (performed by Susan Jensen, violin; The HMC American Gamelan)
Mystic Canyon
Mystic Canyon for Violin and Gamelan [5:20]
MicroFest Records Amazon
Previous Episode
New Music for String Quartet (Special Podcast)
Hear unusual music for string quartet on this program, as Australian composer Andrew Byrne, now based in New York, uses the string quartet as a percussion instrument in his work called “Striking.” Then, listen to Bang on a Can All-Star saxman, clarinetist and composer Ken Thomson’s work for the JACK Quartet, “THAW.” There’s also folk-informed music from the singer, songwriter and composer Aoife O Donovan as played by Brooklyn Rider. Hear string quartet music by multi-instrumentalist composer Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, who plays a traditional Vietnamese string instrument on “Green River Delta,” in collaboration with Kronos Quartet. Plus, hear a work from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams that uses the string quartet as an ambient music ensemble, relying upon harmonics and on tones played on open strings. That, and more.
PROGRAM #3686 Music for String Quartet (First aired on 1/21/2015)
ARTIST(S)
RECORDING
CUT(S)
SOURCE
Ken Thomson (JACK quartet)
THAW
Thaw, excerpt [1:41]
Cantaloupe Records 21095 bangonacan.org
Members of Either/Or Ensemble
Striking; Whispers and Cries
Andrew Byrne: Striking Parts 1 & 2 [7:32]
Available for purchase directly through composer here: andrewbyrne.com
JACK Quartet
John Luther Adams: The Wind in High Places
John Luther Adams: The Wind in High Places - Above Sunset Pass [7:24]
Cold Blue Music CBM 41 coldbluemusic.com
Ken Thomson (JACK quartet)
THAW
THAW: Thaw [10:55]
Cantaloupe Music 21095 bangonacan.org
Brooklyn Rider
Almanac
Aoife O'Donovan: Show Me [4:56]
Mercury Classics / In A Circle Records #002159302 mercuryclassics.com Available at iTunes, Amazon.com, Emusic.com
Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ with Kronos Quartet
Three-Mountain Pass
Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ: Green River Delta/Luu Thuy Truong [4:40]
Innova 866 innova.mu
Members of Either/Or Ensemble
Striking; Whispers and Cries
Andrew Byrne: Striking Parts 3 & 4 [8:30]
Available for purchase directly through composer here: andrewbyrne.com
Next Episode
With Missy Mazzoli (Special Podcast)
Composer, keyboardist and bandleader, Missy Mazzoli, joins John Schaefer to introduce selections from her new recording, “Vespers for a New Dark Age.” The work, commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the 2014 Ecstatic Music Festival, is a 30-minute suite for singers, chamber ensemble and electronics, and is built around text, both spiritual and worldly, by contemporary poet Matthew Zapruder. Mazzoli wrote for the very specific voices of sopranos Martha Cluver, Melissa Hughes and alto Virginia Warnken Kelsey, who all have a lot of experience with contemporary music but also early and Baroque music. Her ensemble Victoire provides dramatic settings while drummer Glenn Kotche (perhaps best known for his work in Wilco) propels the work percussively. Plus, hear selections from Phil Kline’s millennial mass “John the Revelator,” written for the early/new music vocal group Lionheart and the quartet ETHEL.
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