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Post by jk on Mar 13, 2024 7:15:36 GMT -5
I gave the mix album a listen yesterday while making lasagna. It's a good excuse to bump this splendid post.
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Post by jk on Mar 26, 2024 14:45:37 GMT -5
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Post by jk on Apr 12, 2024 3:16:52 GMT -5
William Bolcom's gigantic setting of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience really needs to be heard in full -- all two and a quarter hours of it. The next best thing is to dip into its 55 sections at random. Either way, you'll be amazed. "In 2004, Naxos Records produced a recording of the Songs on location at Hill Auditorium, featuring the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance Symphony Orchestra, the student choirs from the same university, University Musical Society Choral Union, Michigan State University Children's Choir, and a variety of solo instrumentalists and singers (who also included Joan Morris, wife of Bolcom). In 2006, it won four Grammy Awards for Best Choral Performance, Best Classical Contemporary Composition, Best Classical Album, and Best Producer of the Year, Classical." [ Source] And, that performance has a Beach Boys connection, besides a fleeting comparison with VDP's Song Cycle: I see here that Tommy Morgan is one of the two harmonica players involved. www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kkDXO-7p-NaSEjbADCFu9yYlbIZiSLeTIThe critical review of the song cycle in the Spring 1988 issue of Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly (linked below) gives a good idea of what the work is all about. With thanks to Kapitan at BBT for pointing me at Mr Bolcom. bq.blakearchive.org/21.4.disalvo
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Post by Awesoman on Apr 22, 2024 8:48:01 GMT -5
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