#3284: Songs of Snow and Ice

New Sounds | Apr 11, 2013

View it how you will, a nod to the George R. R. Martin series, "A Song of Fire and Ice" or an optimistic look back at snow, but this New Sounds program gets all close and personal with the cold and the white, with the "Icy Sleeves of Green" by Todd Reynolds, and some songs from Kate Bush's most recent record, "50 Words for Snow." We'll hear songs about melting snowflakes and icicles, soundscapes evoking the blindingly white and bleak, and other works to paint wintry portraits of powdery drifts or stark frozen mountains.

PROGRAM # 3284, Snow & Ice (First aired on 12/23/2011)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
Todd Reynolds	Outerborough	Icy Sleeves of Green [5:11]	Innova 741 www.innova.mu
Phil Kline, feat. Ethel & Lionheart	John the Revelator	Phil Kline: The Snow Fell [3:22]	Cantaloupe Music 21047 www.cantaloupemusic.com
Ryuichi Sakamoto	Playing the piano / out of noise Deluxe edition	ice [3:34]	Decca 2717100 www.amazon.co.uk
Musica Intima	Into Light	Bruce Sled: Ice [3:58]	Atma 2613 Atmaclassicque.com
Hauschka	Foreign Landscapes	Snow [5:53]	Fat Cat cd13-12 www.fatcat-usa.com
Bell Orchestre	As Seen Through Windows	Icicles - Bicycles [6:14]	Arts and Crafts A&C041 www.galleryac.com
Kate Bush	50 Words for Snow	50 Words for Snow [8:26]	Noble & Brite FPCD 007 www.katebush.com/shop or download from Amazon.com, iTunes or www.emusic.com
Dustin O’Halloran	Lumiere	Snow + Light [6:34]	Available at www.dustinohalloran.com or download from www.emusic.com
ACME (The American Contemporary Music Ensemble)	Live at LPR 3/14/10	John Luther Adams: In a Treeless Place, Only Snow, excerpt [5:11]	This performance is streaming at acmemusic.org

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