It’s About Time

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Joan Tower’s timely work "Clocks" opens the morning’s music, and from
there we move on to the "embittered clock of woe" in a Neapolitan
madrigal, and Haydn’s "Clock" Symphony #101. Morning music starts at 8 –
don’t be late! And in the 9am hour I’ll talk with Dr. Bill Pfaff, one of the resident composers at this year’s Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival, about his new work which will be performed in the concert tonight in Newport.

 

 

Playlist:
8:14 am
  • Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman #1
  • Composer: Joan Tower
  • Ensemble: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
  • Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
  • CD/Album: "The American Album"
  • Record co./Cat #: RCA 60778
8:17 am
  • Clocks
  • Composer: Joan Tower
  • Soloists: Sharon Isbin, guitar
  • CD/Album: "Nightshade Rounds"
  • Record co./Cat #: Virgin Classics 45024
  • Note: (written in 1985, dedicated to Sharon Isbin)
8:27 am
  • St'amaro core mio e diventato
  • Composer: Anonymous (Neapolitan canzona)
  • Ensemble: Ensemble Daedelus
  • CD/Album: "Canzoni Villanesche - Daedalus"
  • Record co./Cat #: Accent 94107
  • Note: (song: "My embittered heart has become a clock of woe which sounds the hours, the minutes, and the quarters")
8:31 am
  • Symphony #101 in D, "The Clock"
  • Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
  • Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Conductor: Georg Solti
  • CD/Album: "Haydn: Symphonies NOS. 96 & 101"
  • Record co./Cat #: London 417521
9:02 am
  • Lollapalooza
  • Composer: John Adams
  • Ensemble: Halle Orchestra
  • Conductor: Kent Nagano
  • CD/Album: "John Adams - Century Rolls/Lollapalooza/Slonimsky's Earbox"
  • Record co./Cat #: Nonesuch 79607
  • Note: (written as a 40th birthday gift for conductor Simon Rattle, a good friend of the composer.)
9:08 am
  • Conversation with Dr. William Pfaff, composer and board member with the Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival
  • Note: * tonight's Warebrook Festival concert is at the Newport United Church in Newport, VT *
9:12 am
  • Songs of Whimsy and Devotion: The Fiddler of Dooney
  • Composer: Sara Doncaster
  • Soloists: Jon Garrison, tenor ; Daniel Padgett, piano
  • CD/Album: "Warebrook Contemporary Music Concert - July 16, 2010"
  • Record co./Cat #: VPR 201007
  • Note: (recorded live at the July 16th concert of the 2010 Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival at the Newport United Church, Newport, VT - setting of verse by William Butler Yeats)
9:16 am
  • Wild Ambrosia
  • Composer: Pierre Jalbert
  • Soloists: Soovin Kim, violin ; Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano
  • CD/Album: "UVM Lane Series Grand Finale Concert May 7, 2010"
  • Record co./Cat #: VPR 20100507
  • Note: (Recorded live at UVM Recital Hall, 5/7/10 - dedicated to former UVM Lane Series director Jane Ambrose on the occasion of her retirement)
9:30 am
  • String Quartet #19 in C, "Dissonance" , K 465
  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Ensemble: Talich String Quartet
  • CD/Album: "Mozart: Les six quatuors dedies a Haydn"
  • Record co./Cat #: Calliope 9243
  • Note: ("Haydn" Quartet #6)

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