Submitted by John Ryan on Thu, 04/05/2007 - 4:08pm.
We met last night to discuss Golijov's opera Ainadamar. It was a great discussion and we set our next meeting and chose repertoire.
Tuesday May 1st at 7:00pm. We'll be discussing George Antheil's Symphony No. 5 "Joyous" and a couple choral works by Eric Whitacre: Sleep and Water Night.
The Antheil is available on eMusic. The Whitacre is available on itunes.
More later, but mark your calendars now.
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Steve Burkholder | Thu, 04/05/2007 - 10:09pm
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»susanplatz | Sat, 04/07/2007 - 12:31pm
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»susanplatz | Sat, 04/07/2007 - 1:01pm
Hi again - Here are links to the texts of Eric Whitacre's Sleep and Water Night. (Water Night is a gorgeous poem by Mexican writer Octavio Paz, FYI. More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavio_Paz)
Water Night: http://www.musicanet.org/en/texts/00/00058en.htm
Sleep: http://www.lyricshornet.com/649336/Eric-Whitacre-Sleep-Lyrics
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»Jim Palermo | Sun, 04/08/2007 - 6:02pm
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»John Ryan | Mon, 04/09/2007 - 5:30pm
Hi Jim,
thanks for the info. The Antheil was my idea because I saw that you'd programmed his 5th symphony and I wanted and excuse to get to know it. From the little I know, he is an underrepresented composer!
Discovereing composers is one of the great things about listening groups - last month we listened to a work by Ingram Marshall, who I had never heard of. And within days I started seeing his name - most notably a long article about him in Symphony magazine.
Same thing is happening with Whitacre. I hadn't heard of him. Susan suggested him and here it is - a performance by a terrific chorus (practically) in my back yard.
I'm looking forward to them both.
John
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