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SOCIETY
OF COMPOSERS, INC.
"Cultivated Choruses"
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Design: Catherine Gressel
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Track
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| Orlando Jacinto Garcia | ||
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1. | Celebramos (7:56) |
| Florida International University Concert Choir | ||
| John Augenblick, conductor | ||
| Karen Tarlow | ||
| 2-6. | Five Shaker Lyrics (8:05) | |
| University of Massachusetts, Amherst Chamber Choir | ||
| E. Wayne Abercrombie, director | ||
| Milton Babbitt | ||
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7-9. | Three Cultivated Choruses (3:04) |
| New York Virtuosi Singers | ||
| Harold Rosenbaum, conductor | ||
| Lansing McLoskey | ||
| 10. | Non avrá ma' pietá/Quando con gran tempesta/Non vivam ultra (3:52) | |
| Clamores Antiqui | ||
| Lansing McLoskey, director | ||
| Carolann Buff, mezzo-soprano | ||
| Agnieska Lehman, alto | ||
| Temmo Korisheli, tenor | ||
| Lansing McLoskey, tenor | ||
| Cedric Berry, bass | ||
| Maz Mendez, bass | ||
| Zae Munn | ||
| Five Animal Songs (17:25) | ||
| 11. | I. Mouse, Shrew, Vole (1:46) | |
| 12. | II. Bird (5:26) | |
| 13. | III. Merry-go-round (4:56) | |
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14. | IV. Horses (3:16) |
| 15. | V. Mice (2:35) | |
| Otterbein Vocal Ensemble | ||
| Craig Johnson, conductor | ||
| Brad Blackham, piano | ||
| Phillip Schroeder | ||
| 16. | Lux aeterna (7:20) | |
| The Alpha Choir | ||
| Phillip Schroeder, conductor | ||
| Frank LaRocca | ||
| 17. | Exaudi (7:50) | |
| University Singers | ||
| David Stein, director |
All Recordings by the
Society of Composers, Inc.
Related Links
Mélange CPS-8755 Mood Shifts CPS-8748 Soundscapes CPS-8741 Cornucopia CPS-8725 Sonic Images CPS-8712 Milestones CPS-8701 Inspirations CPS-8690 Cultivated Choruses CPS-8674 Inner Visions CPS-8670 Connections CPS-8660 Transcendencies CPS-8656 Chamber Works CPS-8651 Illuminations CPS-8643 Grand Designs CPS-8639 Intimate Thoughts CPS-8632 Evocations CPS-8631 Extended Resources CPS-8626 Songfest CPS-8618 Contra-Punctus CPS-8615 America Sings! CPS-8613 Potpourri CPS-8609 View from the Keyboard CPS-8606
• Society of Composers, Inc.
• Frank LaRocca
Reviews
American Record Guide - November/December 2001 - by Greenfield
"Works on this diverse program run the gamut from pretty classy to "Isn't this thing over yet?" University of Massachusetts composer Karen Turlow's Five Shaker Lyrics are lovely echoes of the clarity and simplicity of that musical idiom. (Only one of the five is based on a preexisting Shaker melody. The rest she created.) Frank LaRocca's Exaudi is quite beautiful, and there's deft writing as well as nice poetry in Zae Munn's Animal Songs. There are some affecting sonorities in Lansing McLoskey's madrigal set as well.
Milton Babbitt's nasty, dissonant Cultivated Choruses and Jacinto Garcia's uneventful Celebramos were the ones that had me checking my watch most often. Most of the performances are pretty good, though lousy sound often gets in the way. Several were recorded in concert, complete with coughs, rustles, whacks, and bumps that don't help the music one bit. LaRocca's Exaudi fares best. Phillip Schroeder's Lux Aeterna, on the other hand, gets clobbered by poor sonics. You can sense the luminous effects the composer was after in the writing, but the blatty, close-up sound eliminates most expressive nuances. Consonants wind up sounding like percussive swipes on a cymbal. (The composers served as recording engineers on the two pieces that wound up sounding the worst. Do we sense a pattern here?)
Releases like this can serve as an informative round-up of what's new musically in academia and beyond, but for the general record-buying public to be interested, the quality control division over at the Society of Composers will have to place itself on a higher state of alert."
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