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2024-10-04 listening log

1. Laura Cannell - Ghostlore [2024 Brawl Records]
2. Orhestre Philharmonique De Strasbourg - Cinema Classics - Iconikc Film Scores by John Williams, Ennio Morriconie, Howard Shore, Nino Rota, Bernard Herrmann, John Barry, Maurice Jarre... [2024 Parlophone Records]

2024-10-03 listening log

1. zake, anthene - regeneration [2024 floralia]
2. Gregory Hutter, Armenio Suzano, Carter Pann, Martinu Quartet - Chamber Works [2024 Centaur Records, Inc.] 
3. Lawrence English - A Colour for Autumn (15th Anniversary edition) [2024 Room40]. Australian musician with his label of experimental music and sound art.
4. Aglaia - Darkness meets red [2024 Projekt: Archive]
5. Locsil, Lawrence English - Chroma [2024 Locsil]. Locsil aka Scott Morgan.

2024-10-02 listening log

1. Chicago - Chicago at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971 - Live) [2024 Rhino Entertainment Company. 3 "discs"]. Includes  the song A Hit by Varèse, from when Chicago was an artistic jazz-rock band and before they were compressed into bland pop-rock.
2. Bill Frisell, Andrew Cyrille, Kit Downes - Breaking the Shell [2024 Red Hook Ltd.] And related small releases. I can't yet grasp what this is.
3. Aaron Parks - Sports [2024 UMG Recordings, Inc.]
4. VOCES8 - Nightfall [2024 Decca Classics]
5. Malek Jandali, Amstel Quartet - Home [2024 Amstel Records]. Syrian-American composer.
6. Sun Araw - Lifetime [2024 Sun Ark]

2024-10-01 listening log

1. Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet, John Patitucci, So Percussion, Roomful of Teeth - The Last Supper [2024 The Leondardo Film Project, LLC]
2. John Williams et al - Movie Night: Iconic Soundtracks [2024 UMG Recordings, Inc.]
3. Ariel Kalma - Wonderland Advaentures [2024 Ariel Kalma]
4. Morton Feldman, Nieuw Amsterdams Peil - Feldman: Piano, Violin, Viola, Cells (Live) [2024 TRPTK]
5. Franz Waxman - Best FRANZ WAXMAN Movie Themes Vol. 1 (1935-1941) [2024 Disques Cinemusique]
6. Andrew Hamilton, Crash Ensemble - Friendly Place [2024 Crash Records]

Pachinko: Season 2 (2024). Nico Muhly

It's a new season of Pachinko on AppleTV. My free subscription has lapsed so may not see it. Nico Muhly has a soundtrack for the new season as well. Some interesting  and touching sound fragments, but this is not a Bernard Herrmann-esque composition.

Lilacs (1995). George Walker #llm

I've been using ChatGPT to help me identify "American" classical music composers and then the year of composition for specific works.  I then asked it to summarize the session. This is surprisingly useful:

Composition	Composer	Year	Attributes
Lilacs	George Walker	1995	Pulitzer Prize-winning work for soprano and orchestra, based on Walt Whitman's poem, emotional depth.
Lyric for Strings	George Walker	1946	Lyrical and emotional piece for string orchestra, compared to Barber's Adagio for Strings.
Piano Concerto	George Walker	1975	Technically demanding, complex orchestration, showcases Walker's virtuosity as a pianist.
Guido's Hand	George Walker	1986	Modernist string quartet with intricate counterpoint and rich harmonies, exploring musical history.
Aheym	Bryce Dessner	2009	For string quartet, combines minimalist elements with intense emotional expression, inspired by Jewish heritage.
Duet	Steve Reich	1993	Short, lyrical piece for two violins and string orchestra, dedicated to Yehudi Menuhin, peaceful and melodic.
p r i s m	Ellen Reid	2018	Pulitzer Prize-winning opera exploring trauma and healing, using shifting musical styles and vivid staging.

The Unanswered Question (1908). Charles Ives #soundtrack #germany

I saw a re-release showing of Run Lola Run at the Aquarius Theatre in Palo Alto. Originally released in 1998. the movie excerpts Charles Ives' The Unanswered Question, one of my favorite works.

aworks listening log - week of feb 18, 2023

1. emby downs, Steve Gunn - Looming change / Building fabric [2023 Longform Editions]
2. Mike Cooper - Extraordinary Moments @ Hotel Palenque [2023 Room40]

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3. Bardo Pond - Bardo Pond, Vol. 1 [2021 Fire Songs]
4. Sergio Sorrentino, John King - 21st Century Blues [2023 Sergio Sorrentino & John King]
5. Simeon ten Holt, Erik Hall - Canto Ostinato [2023 Western Vinyl]
6. Surface 10 - A Stray Ending [2023 Something Else Music Limited]
7. Michael Robinson, Anindo Chatterjee - Those Sighs [2023 Azure Miles Records]

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8. Stereolab - Simple Headphone Mind / Trippin' With The Birds [2022 Duophonic UHF Disks under exclusive license to Warp Records]
9. Domenico Scarlatti, Vox Heri - Scarlatti: Exercises, Kk. 1-30 [2023 Classical Goat]
10. CPE Bach, Claudio Colombo - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: 6 Keyboard Sonatas, Wq. 49 "Württemberg [2023 Claudio Colombo]
11. Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch - The Strays (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film) [2023 Netflix Music, LLC]
12. Georg Frederic Handel, Millenium Orchestra, Leonardo García Alarcón - Handel:Solomon [2023 Outhere]
13. James P. Johnson - The Father of Jazz Piano - James P. Johnson the King of Stride [2023 Old King]
14. Brooklyn Rider - The Wanderer (Live from Paliesius, Lithuania) [2023 In A Circle Records]
15. Kurt Elling, Charlie Hunter, Nate Smith - Guilty Pleasures (feat. Nate Smith) [2023 Edition Records]
16. Morunas - Beyond Our Dreams [2023 Morunas]

aworks listening log - 2023 american classical releases

1. Alvin Lucier, Austin Buckett, Australian Art Orchestra - Swing Bridge & Sizzles [Mode Records]
2. John Williams, Boston Pops Orchestra - John Williams [UMG Recordings, Inc.]

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3. James Romig - Spaces [James Romig]
4. Terry Riley  Aleksey Peresidly - In C [Aleksey Peresidly]
5. Amy Beach, Tomas Ehrenberg - Amy Beach Opus 37, 44 & 51 [Tomas Ehrenberg]

Roger Reynolds: Violin Works - Gabriela Díaz, Gil Rose, Boston Modern Orchestra Project #2022release

• Personae (1989-1990)
• Kokoro for solo violin (1991-1992)
• Aspiration (2004-2005)

• Roger Reynolds: "I grew up in a home that contained scant aesthetic stimulation (absent music, minimal visual art, no books other than, inexplicably, an illustrated copy of Moby Dick). This meant that my outlook was relatively free of the canonic values of Europe or America."
• Recorded 2013-2018.
• Album booklet