6-3-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center - ”Multiples”

Greetings!

According to the Miriam-Webster dictionary, one of the possible definitions of the word "multiples", when used as a noun, is "something in units of more than one or two".  That will be the conceptual thread tying today's program together.  Pieces of music that are primarily played by multiples of the same instrument, though several composers took the idea of multiples to new limits, such as Henry Brandt and Karlheinz Stockhausen who created compositions for multiple orchestras.

This will likely be the first in a series of "multiples" programs since there were many other potential selections and only 1 hour and 59 minutes at hand. (If you have other "multiples" selections you'd like to hear, please drop me a line.)

Enjoy!

Joel

 

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6-3-23 PTE Playlist

 

• Music For Pieces of Wood (for five pairs of tuned claves) - Group 180 / composer: Steve Reich - Group 180 - Hungaroton (1980)
• https://stevereich.com/composition/music-for-pieces-of-wood/ 

 

• We Know You Know: Reverie for Mahavishnu - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet / composer: Brian Head - LAGQ's Guitar Heroes - Telarc (2004)
• https://www.lagq.com/ 

 

• Extensions RC (Reach) - Jon Gibson - Relative Calm - New World Records (2016)
• https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/jon-gibson-relative-calm 

 

• Trinity of Spheres - Denver Symphony Orchestra / Bruce Hangen, Carl Topilow, and Henry Brant, conductors /composer: Henry Brant - The Henry Brant Collection, Vol. 3 - Innova Records (2006)
• https://www.innova.mu/albums/henry-brant/henry-brant-collection-vol-3 

 

• Inner Time II: Homage to Calder for 7 B flat clarinets (excerpt) - Armand Angster Clarinet System / composer: Horatiu Radulescu - Inner Time II - Audivis / Montaigne (1994)
• https://www.europeanluceroensemble.com/biography 

 

• Die Donnergötter (for 6 electric guitars, electric bass & drums) - composer/conductor: Rhys Chatham - Die Donnergötter - Homestead Records (1989)
• https://www.rhyschatham.net/works-projects/die-donnergotter/ 

 

• Fathom - accordions: Bratko Bibic, Lars Hollmer, Maria Kalaniemi, Guy Klucevsek & Otto Lechner - Accordion Tribe - Intuition (1998)
• https://www.schott-music.com/de/accordion-tribe-accordion-tribe-no64540.html 

 

• Adagio For Strings - Robert Hohner Percussion Ensemble / composer: Samuel Barber - Lift Off - DMP (1993) 

 

• Shell Shock (for 3 conch shells) - conchs: Stuart Dempster, Moc Escobedo, Chad Kirby - Underground Overlays From The Cistern Chapel - New Albion Records (1995)
• http://www.newalbion.com/blog/-stuart-dempster-underground-overlays-from-the-cistern-chapel 

 

• The Sound of Burning Chairs - Tilted Axes - Music for Mobile Electric Guitars - Peppergreen Media (2016)
• http://tiltedaxes.com/tiltedaxes.html 

 

• Lacquer Prints, No. 3: A Burnt Offering - Northwestern University Cello Ensemble / composer: Zachary Wadsworth - Shadow, Echo, Memory - Sono Luminis (2016)
• https://www.sonoluminus.com/store/shadow-echo-memory 

 

• Music for Voices - voice: Mabou Mines Theater Company / composer: Philip Glass - Early Voice - Orange Mountain Music (2002)
• https://philipglass.com/recordings/early_voice/