aworks :: "new" american classical music

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]

american (classical) listening log - Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States

2013	Smoke and Mirrors	Christopher Chandler	Switch~ Ensemble, Chrisiopher Chandler	SEAMUS Records	2020	"melding timbres together into gestures that wash over the texture"
2013	Three Etudes for Piano and Electronics	Jeffrey Haas	Kati Gleiser, Jeffrey Hass	SEAMUS Records	2020	"an occasional beep of a smoke detector"
2012	MR-HSC	Elliot Patros	Elliot Patros	SEAMUS Records	2020	"excessive DSP tends to disconnect the acts of recording and composing"
2012	Bright Lines	Halim Beere	Halim Beere	SEAMUS Records	2020	"dramatic gestures that sweep from left to right across the stereo field"
2012	Desire with Digressions	Butch Rovan	Keith Kirchoff, Butch Rovan	SEAMUS Records	2020	"the main character is attempting to flee from his former life"
2011-12	Steel Golem	Chester Udell	Chester Udell	SEAMUS Records	2020	Formerly known as Concertino for Twisted Metal
2011	Duo for Cajón and Computer	Cort Lippe	Patti Cudd, Cort Lippe	SEAMUS Records	2020	Afro-Peruvian percussion instrument
2008	Train Song	David Gedosh	David Gedosh	SEAMUS Records	2020	With sounds from Denton, Texas

american (classical) listening log - more contemporary organ music

2019	✓ Closing (from the Tao of Glass)	Phillip Glass	Philip Glass	Orange Mountain Music	2020
2012	✓ An Evangelist Drowns	Michael Daugherty	Randall Harlow	Innova	2020	More contemporary organ music
2012	The Revd Mustard his Installation Prelude	Nico Muhly	Randall Harlow	Innova	2020
2002	✓ On a Day of Bells	Libby Larsen	Randall Harlow	Innova	2020
2001	Ceremonies: II. Meditation	Jennifer Higdon	Randall Harlow	Innova	2020
2000	Fantasia Cromática	Roberto Sierra	Randall Harlow	Innova	2020
1990	✓ Diapason Fall	Matt Darriau	Randall Harlow	Innova	2020
1998	Wished and Candles	Stephen Paulus	Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, The Ebor Singers, Paul Gameson, Rachel Jerome	Resonus Limited	2020
1949	To a Yellow Rose	Florence Price	Sandra Coursey, Madison Hills	Sandra Coursey	2020	"each Rose uses a different melodic style and emotional vein to evoke the different connotations of yellow, white, and red roses"

american (classical) listening log :: 12/06/2020

2015	The Last Dalai Lama?	Philip Glass	Tenzin Choegyal	Orange Mountain Music	2020	Soundtrack to the film
2009	55 Chords	Tom Johnson	Randall Harlow	Innova	2020	It takes awhile to work through 3 hours of contemporary organ music. Having a diverse set of composers helps.
1979	Mad Rush (Live at St. John the Divine)	Philip Glass	Philip Glass	Orange Mountain Music	2020	Live recording on organ, appended to the Last Dalai Lama soundtrack. The work is 'a glistening labyrinth of interlocking rhythms and competing “grooves.”'
1979	Mad Rush	Philip Glass	Philip Glass	Orange Mountain Music	2017	1 Glass piece plus Monk, Jarrett, Palestine, Davis and Budd on From the Kitchen Archives, No. 5 - Pianos in the Kitchen.
1979	Mad Rush	Philip Glass	Donald Joyce	BMG Music	1993	Interesting that I don't really like any of these versions of Mad Rush.
1977-78	✓ The Time Curve Preludes	William Duckworth	R. Andrew Lee	Irritable Hedgehog	2011
1958	Book, Book and Candle	George Duning		Harkbit Entertainment	2004	Tepid jazz & pop-classical soundtrack to a peculiar movie. James Stewart is cranky, Kim Novak a witch (albeit a serious one) and Jack Lemmon a warlock & self-professed bongo player.

american (classical) listening log :: 12/5/2020

2019	Piano Sonata	Philip Glass	Maki Namekawa	Orange Mountain Music	2020
2018	✓ For All Its Fury	Devonté Hynes	Third Percussion	Cedille	2019
2018	Loss	Sarah Hennies	Judith Hamann	Blank Form Editions	2020	"stark and disorienting"
2018	Perfectly Voiceless	Devonté Hynes	Third Percussion	Cedille	2019
2017	Passacaglia "Distant Figure"	Philip Glass	Maki Namekawa	Orange Mountain Music	2020	Composed for pianist Anton Bagatov
2014	✓ Julie's Garden of Unearthly Delights	Anne LeBaron	Julie Favas, John Stehney	Innova	2020
2014	Exodus	Aaron Travers	Randall Harlow	Innova	2020	New contemporary organ recording
2013	✓ Celesta	Christian Wolff	Randall Harlow	Innova	2020
2013	✓ Etude No. 20	Philip Glass	Maki Namekawa	Orange Mountain Music	2020
2013	✓ Etude No. 20	Philip Glass	Katia Labèque	KML Recordings	2020	The duo sisters each get their own etude. 20 > 17.
2012	Etude No. 17	Philip Glass	Marielle Labèque	Orange Mountain Music	2020
2012	✓ Ordinary	David Lang	Randall Harlow	Innova	2020
2008	Concerto for Violin and Orchestra	Christopher Theofanidis	Albany Symphony	Albany Records	2020
2006	Angel Tears & Earth Prayers	Augusta Read Thomas	Randall Harlow	Innova	2020
2003	Concerto for Viola and Chamber Orchestra	Christopher Theofanidis	Albany Symphony	Albany Records	2020
1997	✓ Sizzles	Alvin Lucier	Randall Harlow	Innova	2020
1996	✓ Trio For Violin, Piano and Percussion	Charles Shere	Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio	Other Minds Music	2020
1994	✓ 90+	Elliot Carter	Yoko Hirota	Navona	2020
1931	✓ String Quarter 1931	Ruth Crawford Seeger	Spektral Quartet	New Focus Recordings	2020	"Ruth Crawford Seeger created pathbreaking music. But her family’s folk revival legacy has overshadowed her avant-garde compositions."