#3939: New York New Music Ensembles

New Sounds | Mar 1, 2018

Listen to three generations of New York-based hybrid new music ensembles from the NOW Ensemble to yMusic, to the Bang on a Can All-Stars, and the Philip Glass Ensemble. 

Hear from the Bang on a Can All-Stars from the 2017 Ecstatic Music Kick-off Concert, a work by Anna Thorvaldsdottir for collected sound and hybrid ensemble. It’s called “Fields,” and is part of Bang on a Can’s “Field Recordings” project.  Also, listen to an early work from the Philip Glass Ensemble, along with a work by Missy Mazzoli from the mid-2000’s, in a recording by the hybrid chamber group, the NOW Ensemble. Plus, listen to an “airy” work by Mark Dancigers for the group yMusic, and a piece from one of the Bang on a Can Co-Founders, David Lang.

PROGRAM #3938,  New York new music ensembles (First Aired 1-23-2017)  

ARTIST: Philip Glass Ensemble
WORK: Philip Glass: Floe, excerpt [1:20]
RECORDING: Glassworks
SOURCE: Sony Classical Masterworks #90394
INFO:    Available at arkivmusic.com 

ARTIST: Bang on a Can All-Stars
WORK: David Lang: Sunray [13:09]
RECORDING: New Sounds Live @ Ecstatic Music Fest, 1/9/2017
SOURCE/INFO: This performance not commercially available.

ARTIST: The NOW Ensemble
WORK: Andrea Mazzariello: Trust Fall [8:03]
RECORDING: Dreamfall
SOURCE: New Amsterdam 64
INFO: newamrecords.com

ARTIST: Bang on a Can All-Stars
WORK: Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Fields [5:52]
RECORDING: New Sounds Live @ Ecstatic Music Fest, 1/9/2017
SOURCE/INFO: This performance not commercially available.

ARTIST: yMusic
WORK: Mark Dancigers: Everness [7:12]
RECORDING: Balance Problems
SOURCE: New Amsterdam NWAM 059
INFO:  newamrecords.com

ARTIST: Philip Glass Ensemble
WORK: Philip Glass: Floe  [5:52]
RECORDING: Glassworks
SOURCE: Sony Classical Masterworks #90394
INFO:    Available at arkivmusic.com

ARTIST: The NOW Ensemble
WORK: Missy Mazzoli: Magic With everyday Objects [8:19]
RECORDING: Awake
SOURCE: New Amsterdam NWAM0029
INFO: newamrecords.com

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