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Five of Hearts
Artists' Notes Laura: This CD, Five of Hearts, is the second one by our group, FivePlay Jazz Quintet. We continue on our quest to make melodic, heartfelt original jazz that feeds your soul. Four of these tracks were recorded in 2008, the other seven in 2010. The two years between the recording sessions were the most challenging of my life. During that time, I was diagnosed with breast cancer, and lost my mother. Throughout all the turbulence and struggles, playing and composing music kept me going, and aided my return to joy and health. I hope the music that came out of it speaks to you. Tony: Not your typical jazz CD and I hope that's OK with you, because we like variety, dialect, and color. I'm incredibly grateful to be in the delightful company of my darlin' wife and dear friends once again. And I've been thinking a lot about the next CD... About the Music The journey starts in Terra Incognita where, just when you think you know what's coming, the road takes an unexpected turn. Ting-a-Ling is an rhythmic, angular burner, starting sparse and building inexorably all the way through. Ha Ha is a retro boogaloo that will get you moving and grooving. Dark, mysterious and minor, Monsoon Blues was written during a long and rainy stretch of California winter. We samba the clouds away with the ebullient Ano Novo. In Ya Kitis Zaks (a clue to it's origin: say the title fast), Balkan meets rock & roll and Dave let's loose in a wild duet with Alan. Duke Ellington's ballads inspired Laura to write the lush and romantic Summer Dusk. Scrim Shimmy takes you back to a simpler, laid-back and swinging time in jazz. Paul and Alan are right in the pocket here. The Kiss of the Tenor is a passionate and dramatic tango sandwiching a sojourn in jazz country. Finally, Brother Dave is a soulful gospel waltz that Tony wrote in memory of his dear lifelong friend, the talented drummer Dave Murtaugh. From our hearts We want to thank everyone who participated in making this record, especially Dan Feiszli and Jeff Cressman for their big ears and creative suggestions, Wendy DeWitt, Nancy Lee Andersen, and the folks at Fantasy Studios. Thanks to all of our dear family and friends, and the many wonderful and inspiring musicians that have been part of our lives over many years. Thanks to Yoshi's, the DJs at KCSM and KPFA (and all the DJs everywhere who aired our first CD), Anna DeLeon, Cathi Walkup, and Lisa Reedy for helping us to get the music out there. And a special thanks to you, our listeners: we couldn't do it without you!- Shop: odax
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For You
"For You" I conceived of as musical portraiture for the solo piano. Each piece was composed for a specific family member or dear friend of mine and entitled accordingly. All except Kachaturian's beautiful "Ivan Sings," which presumable follows my theme (and I couldn't resist taking some liberties with) and "Missing You" which I wrote while my wife was in graduate school. What follows is my attempt at saying something that is both specific and rife with metaphor for each person I am interpreting. I hope you enjoy! The album begins with: "For Loren" which phonetically sounds like it portends to be melancholy but in actuality it has an irresistible quirky sense of humor and classically handsome features. Can you see a resemblance? He is, after all, my nephew. "For Maxx," my mercurial goddaughter dancing her way through a musical childhood. Can you see her twirl? "For Isabel," a precious child from courageous and gifted artistic parents. Isabel is blessed with an ebullient song carrier for a father and a graceful, vertically integrated trapeze artist for a mother. Weeks before she was born and androgynous angel appeared to me in a dream singing this song. "For Melissa," my adorable wife, partner and a lifelong learner, a mysterious yet compelling ostinato that aspires to be irresistibly endearing regardless of occasional harmonic sophistication that can lead to challenging yet intriguingly rewarding intentional dissonance. She is endlessly stimulated by voluntary complexity in most things: recipes, friendships and thinking. By embracing internal contradictions, understanding and even welcoming her shadow, she radiates the beauty of wholeness while the limitless generosity of her spirit dances around our minds and hearts like a bubbling fountain or a hidden spring that can quench the terrible thirst of the ignorant even if they lack the courage to drink. "For Gwen" a ravishing beauty of lyrical simplicity juxtaposed with compositional density, the confluence of which opens a window into a multi-dimensional art-scape that seductively invites us to constantly be surprised. As she effortlessly traverses vast distances in the sea of synethesia, she collects ocular honey as well as both polished and edgy stones that she will magically, and sometimes menacingly, incorporate into one of her many masterpieces that she gratefully shares with us all. "For Judy" my sonic sister, a vibrating tuning fork meandering easily along, who almost always takes time to enjoy the ride and appreciate the view. She knows the secret of elegant simplicity that calls attention to timbre profundity. She plays with space and relationships, adding depth and dimension while simultaneously weeding out the toxic ticks of digital detritus. She's a sonic gardener who meticulously relishes in grooming her fruits yet is always eager to share a sumptuous harvest with anyone willing to imbibe and partake. "For Teresa," my wonderfully sweet mother-in-law, a poignant odyssey of self-discovery that travels a circuitous route, eventually winding up where it began, in a peaceful and contemplative place at home in the trees. If you squint you can see her chasing deer out of her rose garden. "For Dorothy" my dear sister who in spite of conspiring circumstances earlier in her life, prevails, survives and thrives. She's an organic evangelist and a politically progressive stalwart who tirelessly tirades against the ravenous beast of exploitation and commodification. Here I offer her a bittersweet interlude that hopefully, or at least temporarily, relieves her from her struggle allowing her a moment of precious and abiding peace with the unmistakable perfume of sadness. "For Andre" a jewel mind moving too fast for words. Luckily, as our devotion to each other has deepened, we increasingly don't need them. Our upstream telepathy more than suffices and affords us the adventuresome opportunity of free diving into each other's imaginations and harvesting only the most deserving and innovative of sounds and insights. Percolating with rhythmic nuance, syncopated with subtle, shifty, sneaky and communicable grooves, Andre is a champion of balancing diligent work ethics, spontaneous play and an unrivaled editing acumen. And let us not forget the fun-loving family man and dearest of friends. "For Emily" she had kindness in her heart and trouble in her soul. She was a devoted and dearest of friends, always quick to laugh. An unfathomable sadness, however, was lurking behind her smile, sometimes surfacing in anguished turmoil. For forty-one years she managed to keep the haunted voices at bay, succumbing eventually to the tragic cacophony. Here is a loving epitaph of a heroic goddess. Rest in peace, dear one. "For Mike" my beloved brother-in-law, as strong and close a friend in death as he was in life, maybe even more so. His anthem is a triumphant return after a vigorous and tumultuous journey. His heart so big and his mind so keen as to leave no doubt to his majestic magnificence for all who were lucky enough to know him. This mighty, understated testimony to strength concludes this recording with all the grandeur I could conjure.- Shop: odax
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Make Way for a Lady
Fresh from her breakout success in Anne of Green Gables (1934), Anne Shirley shines and sparkles as ebullient and excitable high school girl June Drew in this tale of love's labor's lampooned. June's happy home life with her doting widower father, publisher Christopher Drew (Herbert Marshall), is shattered when she overhears the mother of her best friend suggesting that June is preventing her father from finding a new love. Taking this as a call to (melodramatic) action, June decides to become a matchmaker and sets out to find a spouse for her father. Misunderstanding a dedication in a book her father published, June moves heaven and earth in an attempt to reunite her father with worldly author Valerie Broughton (Margot Grahame). Though the pairing results from June's overactive imagination, it threatens to derail her father's very real romance with June's teacher, Miss Emerson (Gertrude Michael).- Shop: odax
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Oh Joy! Oh Rapture!
Oh, Joy! Oh, Rapture! New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players Albert Bergeret, conductor and music director 'Hail, hail, the gang's all here!' What better way to begin this sampling of our company's enthusiasm for G&S than with the original chorus from Pirates of Penzance whose melody was later borrowed for those familiar words? With cat-like tread TRACK 1 The Mikado the most popular of the G&S collaborations and only nominally Japanese, is one of several works for which Gilbert chose an exotic setting as a thin disguise for the English society of which he was making fun. Even Nanki-Poo's famed catalogue of song includes only standard English offerings, sentimental parlour ballads, martial music, and sea chanteys! A wand'ring minstrel I TRACK 2 Comes a train of little ladies TRACK 3 Three little maids from school TRACK 4 A more humane Mikado TRACK 5 Patience spoofs the Aesthetic movement (Whistler, Oscar Wilde) but, more broadly, the excesses of any fad or cult and it's mindless followers. In this piece, one of the idols gives a 'how to' recipe for posing successfully as a cult icon. Am I alone and unobserved? TRACK 6 H.M.S. Pinafore the 2nd full-length G&S collaboration (1878), is only half as long as The Mikado (1885). While later works became more subtle, complex, and elaborate, Pinafore has a palette of bright primary colors and needs no apology for it's relative simplicity, it is a model of brevity and clarity, and estabished the pattern of Gilbert's witty poking of fun at social and individual human foibles, perfectly set off by Sullivan's music. The more pretentious Titanic sank, but this saucy ship has proven virtually indestructible. Our selections are the pieces with which the characters introduce themselves. I am the Captain of the Pinafore TRACK 7 I'm called Little Buttercup TRACK 8 I am the monarch.. When I was a lad TRACK 9 The Yeomen of the Guard is the most 'operatic' of the Gilbet & Sullivan works, full of rich texture and subtle color. Sullivan's stirring overture is one of his finest orchestral settings. In the first chorus, a tough 16th century street crowd is brilliantly evoked by Gilbert's use of archaic vocabulary with alliteration and by Sullivans' use of hard driving rhythms with angular uneven meters, jarring dissonance and stark modal harmony. In 'I have a song to sing' each verse is longer than the last, it's structure finds many precedents in English folksong and was inspired by a sea chantey sung by the crewmen on Gilbert's yacht. The lyrics mirror the story of the opera's central love triangle the way Jack Point wishes it would turn out, the next selection, 'When a wooer goes a-wooing,' presents the reality of what actually happens. In between comes a paean to the grim glory of the Tower of London, where the story is set in a historical context. Overture TRACK 10 Here's a man...I have a song to sing, O TRACK 11 When our gallant Norman foes TRACK 12 When a wooer goes a-wooing TRACK 13 The Gondoliers presents a world where 'all is merry May.' It is as sunny and upbeat as Yeomen is shadowed. The first selection here is extracted from the ebullient 20-minute musical extravaganza that opens the work, rich in Italianate melodies and Italian lyrics to set the mood. The second selection poses a universal Gilbertian philosophic point: 'take life as it comes.' Buon giorno... We're called gondolieri TRACK 14 Try we lifelong TRACK 15 The Pirates of Penzance is the most 'child-friendly' of the G&S, with it's colorful pirates, comic police, and nearly non-stop action. It also contains the best-known and most often parodied pattersong and, in 'Poor Wand'ring One,' not only a splendid aria for a coloratura soprano but an example of one of Sullivan's deliberate and delicious borrowings from other composers, here, the classic 'Sempre libera' from La traviata. We leave you with the first, and still one of the best, of the G&S 'double choruses,' as the Victorian maidens rapturously romanticize 'death and glory' to the more realistically apprehensive policemen. Hail, Poetry TRACK 16 I am the very model TRACK 17 Poor wand'ring one TRACK 18 When the foeman bares his steel TRACK 19 New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players Albert Bergeret, Artistic Director Andrea Stryker-Rodda, Assistant Music Director and Rehearsal Accompanist Lucy Ito, Sally Small, Production Assistants Larry Tietze, Orchestra Manager NYGASP Ensemble SOPRANOS: Robin Bartunek, Meredith Borden, Kimilee Bryant, Susan Case, Charlotte Detrick, Lynelle Johnson, Margaretha Ohse, Laurelyn Watson, Lauren Wenegrat ALTOS: Lee Berman, Victoria Devany, Laura Koeneman, Melissa Parks, Ariane Reinhart, Angela Smith, Maariana Vikse, Lara Wilson TENORS: Michael Connolly, Thomas Donelan, Michael Galante, Michael Scott Harris, Alan Hill, Keith Jameson, Mark Montague, Larry Raiken, Paul Sigrist BARITONES/BASSES: Christopher Briggs, Louis Dall'Ava, Gary Dimon, Richard Holmes, Keith Jurosko, Lance Olds, Stephen Quint, Philip Reilly, Samuel Shaw, William Whitefield NYGASP Orchestra VIOLINS: Andrea Andros, concertmistress, Paula Flatow, Rachel Heineman, Valerie Levy, Maxim Moston, Eleanor Schiller, Svetoslav Slavov, Peter Van DeWater, William Zinn VIOLAS: Carol Benner, Carol Landon CELLOS: Daniele Doctorow, Amy Camus BASS: Deb Spohnheimer FLUTES: Laura George, Margaret Swinchoski, OBOE: Nancy Ranger CLARINETS: Larry Tietze, Joan Porter, Renee Rosen BASSOONS: Andrea Herr, James Jeter FRENCH HORNS: Heidi Garson, Peter Hirsch TRUMPETS: Terry Sizor, Richard Titone TROMBONES: Steve Shulman, Paul Geidel, Joseph Stanko PERCUSSION: Michael Osrowitz.- Shop: odax
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Geistliche Musik Vol.03
The programme opens with the ebullient second setting of the Dixit Dominus and ends with the seven-voice Gloria, surely one of Monteverdi's most impressive sacred works and one which is thought to have been part of a ceremonial Mass written to mark to the end of the 1630 plague outbreak in Venice. In between these two pillars of the repertoire come nine motets and Psalms.- Shop: odax
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Chorwerke
William Mathias's ebullient, joyful choral writing, drawing on a variety of musical traditions, is immediately accessible and likeable whilst demonstrating an architectural sophistication that brings it into the top rank of twentieth-century liturgical music. He had a particular flair for brilliance, drama and display, which made his music highly suited to ceremonial and festive occasions.- Shop: odax
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