Monthly Archive for November, 2009

NonPop Show 069

Program Notes:
(running time – approx. 33 min)
1. “Earth Seen From Above” 7:35
by Meredith Monk
Atlas
ECM
2. “The Durham Strike” 5:25
by Howard Skempton
Pianoworks
Legacy Recordings
3. “A Traveller’s Dream Journal – Setting B” 9:30
by David Behrman
Leapday Night
Lovely
4. “The Channel” 9:25
by Christopher Roberts
Last Cicada Singing
Cold Blue

 
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NonPop Show 068

Program Notes:
(running time – approx. 32 min)
1. “Street” 9:45
by David Lang
The Minimalists
Mode
2. “Propellers in Love” 9:28
by Arnold Dreyblatt
Propellers In Love
Hat Art Records
3. “Arcs” 11:48
by Stephen Scott
New Music for Bowed Piano
New Albion

 
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A Sweeter Music

Sarah Cahill’s project to commission 18 composers protesting and reflecting on war, violence, and the nature of peace, is a fantastic project that has been made even more lovely by the addition of breathtaking three channel video projections by John Sanborn.

Two excerpts from the Cal Performances in Berkeley, CA on January 25th, 2009:
Mamoru Fujieda – [...]

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NonPop Show 067

Program Notes:
(running time – approx. 30 min.)
1. “Electric Counterpoint – Fast” 4:39
by Steve Reich
Steve Reich 1965-1995
Nonesuch
2. “1-100 (faster decay)” 13:41
by Michael Nyman
Decay Music
Obscure Records
3. “Four of One of Another” 11:26
by Mary Ellen Childs
Kilter
XI Records

 
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