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Love Fail (2012). David Lang #engrossing #evocative #unsettling

Joshua Kosman:

Lang's texts are fragments drawn from various early tellings of the story (Wagner makes an appearance too, but as one source among many), which he intersperses with impressionistic ultra-short stories by the American writer Lydia Davis. The result is engrossing, evocative and unsettlingly beautiful.

 

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aworks listening log :: charles ives #forward

• Premonitions. Paul Sperry- Complete Songs of Charles Ives, Vol. 4
• Not on rdio or YouTube although the entry from A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives is on Google Books. Premeired in San Francisco.
• Paul Sperry the singer is not Paul Sperry the conservative pundit.
• "There was a shadow on the grass that was never there before...Forward! Where new horizons wait."
• The 3-Page Sonata. Nina Deutsch -  Ives: Solo Piano Music
• Central Park in the Dark. Lawrence Foster, BBC Symphony Orchestra - American Landmarks
• Set No. 1 for Orchestra. Richard Bernas, Music Projects London - When the Moon
• Set No. 2 for Orchestra. ""
• Set No. 3 for Orchestra. ""
• Chanson De Florian. William Parker - An Old Song Resung
• The Camp Meeting. ""
• His Exaltation. ""
• Qu'll M'Irait Bien. ""

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aworks listening log :: june 9, 2104 #xeniapestova #tooesoteric

• John Cage. Music for Two - Xenia Pestova. From a new Naxos recording.
• Philip Glass. Ange Des Orages
• Philip Glass. Music in Similar Motion - Brad Lubman
• Harry Partch. Ring Around the Moon. Too esoteric even for me.
• Harry Partch. Even Wild Horses. Ditto
• Vladimir Ussachevsky. Creation: Prologue - Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center

 

aworks listening log :: june 7, 2014 #movement #gsong #chanty

• O Come, Emmanuiel. Michael Touchi
• Though Still a Child. Michael Touchi
• In Dulci Jubilo. Michael Touchi
• Movement for Lou Harrison (for Just Bass Quartet). Larry Polansky - Robert Black
• Movement for Andréa Smith (My Funny Valentine for Just String Quartet). Larry Polansky - Ron Erickson
• G Song. Terry Riley - Alexandra Sostmann. 
• Poems Of The Sea: II. Chanty. Ernst Block - Yvar Mikhashoff

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• Dream. John Cage - Stefano Scodanibbio
• Radio Music. John Cage - Stefano Scodanibbio
• Clarinet Sonata. Leondard Bernstein - Michael Collins
• Time Pieces. Robert Muczynski - Michael Collins
• Amid the Minotaurs. William Brittelle - Roomful of Teeth
• Amiable Conversation. Henry Cowell - Yvar Mikhashoff
• Valse Pour Les Petits Lecteurs Du Figaro. Igor Stravinsky - Yvar Mikhashoff
• Nine Preludes: No. 6. Ruth Crawford-Seeger - Yvar Mikhashoff
• Sonatina Fragmentaria. Conlon Nancarrow - Yvar Mikhashoff

aworks listening log :: june 6, 2014 #curving #sweeping #hurrying

• Sonata in Ishartum. Lou Harrison - David Tannenbaum
• A Rainbow in Curved Air. Terry Riley
• Music with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators. Alvin Lucier
• Music for Piano with Amplified Sonorous Vessels. Alvin Lucier
• Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon. Robert Ashley
• Hurdy Hurry. Phill Niblock.
• Wedding March. Meredith Monk - Solaris Vocal Ensemble
  

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• Outdoor Spell. Rhys Chatman
• Time Perspectives. Pauline Oliveros
• Septet for Three Winds, Four Strings, and Pure Wave Oscillator. Alvin Lucier
• Two Pieces. Aaron Copland - Brodsky Quartet
• Four-Letter Word. Robbie McCarthy - Akropolis Reed Quintet
• Warp & Weft. Paul Dooley - Akropolis Reed Quintet
• Variations on Reverse Entropy. Roger Zare - Akropolis Reed Quintet
• Morse Code. Jason Turbin - Akropolis Reed Quintet
• Autumn in New York. Elliot Bark - Akropolis Reed Quintet