Bells & Whistles for August 7, 2014

Bells & Whistles
A survey of world music and its derivatives
 
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August 7, 2014

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SINGLE PLAY 
Bali Conservatory of Music Bali: 
Jauk and Barong dance contest at STSI, Denpasar
Trance Gamelan in Bali
Felmay/2011
Recorded at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Denpasar, Bali; composition: traditional; time: 10:31

SET ONE
Jody Diamond: Gending Chelsea
In That Bright World -- Music for Javanese Gamelan
New World Records/2009
Musicians from the Indionesian Institute of the Arts in Surakarta; voices: Jodey Diamond, STSI musicians, introduction: Matt Peterson; text: Virgil Thomson; recorded at Indonesion Institute of the arts, Surakarta, July, 2001; composition year: 1982; time: 11:09

Lou Harrison:  Threnody for Carlos Chavez
Drums Along the Pacific
New Albion Records/2003
viola: Geraldine Walther; Gamelan Sekar Kembar, director: William Winant; recorded at Fantasy Records, Berkeley, California, August 2002; composition year: 1978; time: 8:04

SET TWO
Jorge Liderman: Open Strings (1-3)
Walking Dances
Bridge Records/2004
(for guitar orchestra and electric bass); Jugend-Guitarrenorchester, Baden Wurttenberg, conductor: Helmut Osterreich; electric bass: Sebastian Maurer; composition year: 2001; time: 12:18

Gustavo Santolalla: 
a. Way Up (4:06)
b. Gaucho (3:12)
c. Atacama (3:18)
Ronroco
Nonesuch Records/1998
guitar, ronroco: Gustavo Santaolalla; recorded at La Casa, Los Angeles, 1997; total time: 10:36

SET THREE
Lou Harrison: Palace Music
from Suite for National Steel Guitar
Por Gitaro
Mode Records/2008
National Steel Guitar: John Schneider; recorded at Harrison House, Joshua Tree, California, July 5, 2004; time: 3:00

Lou Harrison: Plaint & Variations on 'Song of Palestine'
a. Plaint (3:08)
b. Variations (4:37)
Just Guitars
Bridge Records/2003
guitar: John Schneider; recorded at Studio 34, Los Angeles, July 2000; time: 7:45

Ben Johnston: Who Says Words with My Mouth
from The Tavern
Ruminations
MicroFest Records/2014
microtonal guitar, voice: John Schneider; text: Rumi; recorded at Studio 34, Los Angeles, 2010; time: 3:41

Stephen Dickman: Who Says Words
Who Says Words
New World Records/1999
baritone: Thomas Buckner; cello: Michael Finckel; text: Rumi; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn; composition year: 1992; time: 6:16

SET FOUR
Robert Dick: Piece in Gamelan Style
Steel & Bamboo
O.O. Discs/1993
flute: Robert Dick; time: 9:08

Robert Dick & Steve Gorn: Calaveras Jump
Steel & Bamboo 
O.O. Discs/1993
flute: Robert Dick; bansuri: Steve Gorn; time: 5:58

Barbara Benary: Downtown Steel I
Sun on Snow
New World Records/2006
piano: Joseph Kubera; clarinet: Daniel Goode; soprano sax: Jon Gibson; marimba: Bill Ruyle; drum set: Chris Nappi; trombone: Peter Zummo; tuba: Marcus Rojas; percussion: Nick Didkovsky; vibraphone: Barbara Benary; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November 2005; composition year: 1993; time: 6:46

SINGLE PLAY
Arie Shapira: We Are Heading, Hiroshima, Towards the Rising Sun
Selected Compostions 1971 -- 1995
Arie Shapira/1996
(for actor/singer, chamber orchestra, electroacoustics); narrator/singer: Gil Alon; text: Robert Penn Warren, "New Dawn," Hebrew translation: Moshe Dor; Ensemble Neue Pegnitzschaefer von Nürnberg, conductor: Jeffrey Burns; recorded at the Akademie Der Künste , Berlin, November 1993; composition year: 1987; time: 23:29

SINGLE PLAY
David Macbride: Bells of Remembrance
A Special Light
Innova Recordings/2014
percussion, bells: Benjamin Toth; piano, bells: David Macbride; recorded at the Hartt School, University of Hartford; December 16, 2012; composition year: 2004; time: 9:28

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