Liner Notes-WILLIAM SCHUMAN: Casey at the Bat

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The Poem Nearly one hundred years after its first appearance, Casey at the Bat, the story of a baseball hero who fails at the cru­cial moment, remains a classic of humorous verse. Martin Gardner, who has researched and studied the subject of Casey …

Liner Notes-HOVANESS: Talin. BARLOW: The Winter’s Passed. KAUFMAN: Pastorale. FLAGELLO: Adoration. BERGER: Short Overture.

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Hovhaness: TalinBarlow: The Winter’s PassedKaufman: PastoraleFlagello: AdorationBerger: Short Overture “My purpose is to create music, hot for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing, to attempt what old Chinese painters called spirit resonance in melody and sound.” Alan Hovhaness has pursued this ideal …

Liner Notes-The Music of Harry Partch

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The work that I have been doing these many years parallels much in the attitudes and actions of primitive man. He found sound-magic in the common materials around him. He then proceeded to make the vehicle, the instrument, as visually …

Liner Notes- Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

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 Few works are as clearly—almost mythically—identified with a musical era as is Igor Stravinsky’s 1913 ballet The Rite of Spring with the dawn of the “modern” period. As time has passed, and our understanding of the music of the first two decades …

ADAMS: Harmonium

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ADAMS: Harmonium. San Francisco Symphony Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Edo de Waart. ECM 1-25012. John Adams (b. 1947) is the resident composer of the San Francisco Symphony—the West Coast’s answer to Glass and Reich. Although he has been somewhat slower to attract …

DEL BORGO: Rituale. Prologue and Dance. Statements. Memoriam—Babi Yar.

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DEL BORGO: Rituale. Prologue and Dance. Statements. Memoriam—Babi Yar. Crane School of Music Wind Ensemble conducted by Anthony Joseph Maiello. GOLDEN CREST ATHDG-5079 (digital), produced by Clark Galehouse. Golden Crest’s “Authenticated Composers Series” has made the music of many Amer­ican composers—some relatively obscure—available to the …

DEBUSSY: The Fall of the House of Usher. CAPLET: Conte fantastique (“The Masque of the Red Death”) for Harp and String Orchestra. SCHMITT: Étude for “The Haunted Palace.”

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DEBUSSY: The Fall of the House of Usher. Christine Barbaux, soprano (Lady Madeline); Jean-Philippe Lafoint, baritone (Roderick); Pierre-Yves Le Maigat, baritone (The Friend); Francois Le Roux, baritone (The Doctor). CAPLET: Conte fantastique (“The Masque of the Red Death”) for Harp and String Or­chestra. Frederique Cambreling, harp. SCHMITT: Étude …

CRESTON: Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano. SOWASH: Four Seasons in Bellville.

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CRESTON: Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano. SOWASH: Four Seasons in Bellville. Mirecourt Trio. TR RECORDS TRC-107 College record productions have long provided a means of encountering repertoire—usually of recent vintage—not otherwise found on disc. Such productions have usually been taken from mediocre concert performances, marred by …