#3222: Hijaz

New Sounds | Jul 6, 2011

For this New Sounds, we’ll hear the broadcast premiere of a work by Michael Harrison, called "Hijaz." The composition features the Young People’s Chorus delivering vowels, South Indian rhythmic and tabla syllables, and a universal prayer as the text. Together with new music heavyweight/adventure cellist Maya Beiser, the versatile composer/percussionist Payton MacDonald (Alarm Will Sound, Super Marimba), and the composer Michael Harrison on just-intonation piano, the new work is intended to invoke a sense of pilgrimage.

Also on the show, we’ll listen to other works in the Hijaz mode, one of the oldest in use in the Middle East and North Africa, and one heard in the flamenco scale, Hebrew prayers, and Klezmer music.

PROGRAM #3222, Hijaz (First aired on 7/6/11)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
3 Mustaphas 3	Friends, Fiends & Fronds	!Starehe Mustapha! I, II & III, excerpt	Omnium OMM 2003 Available as an import at Amazon.com* or as a download
Hadouk Trio (Didier Malherbe)	Utopies	Hijaz [5:05]	NV815411 www.naive.fr www.didiermalherbe.com
Miles Davis	Kind of Blue (Legacy Edition)	Flamenco Sketches, Alternate Take, excerpt [1:00]	Columbia Legacy/Song BMG 88697476272 Available at Amazon.com, iTunes, and Emusic.com
Marc Loopuyt	The Orients of the Lute	Hijaz [6:32]	Buda - Musique Du Monde Out of print, but try Emusic.com
Michael Harrison and the Young People’s Chorus, Maya Beiser, Payton McDonald	Live, 92^nd Street Y, May 8, 2011	Hijaz [13:22]	This performance not commercially available. Try the Bang on a Can site for video links, since the piece was performed as part of the 2001 Bang on a Can Marathon. Info at www.ypc.org AND www.michaelharrison.com
Miles Davis	Kind of Blue (Legacy Edition)	Flamenco Sketches, Alternate Take, excerpt [1:00]	See above.
Snehasish Mozumder	Basant Mukhari	Basant Mukhari (Hijaz Bhairav) [15:11]	Sony Music Entertainment India Available at Emusic.com or Amazon.com

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