#935: Vaults: Glass & Moran

New Sounds | May 24, 2010
Bach, Handel and Scarlatti walk into a bar - and they have a drinkdown smackup fight about whose music rocks harder...or well - something like that. Hear composer Robert Moran tell tales from the stage on this 1993 Vaults show, featuring performances from the New Sounds Live concert series. Moran’s music then takes center stage with singer Thomas Bogdan and pianist Harry Huff, performing a set of beautiful Baroque songs. Plus, on the first half of the show, pianist Margaret Leng-Tan resurrects a forgotten work by a young Philip Glass, called “How Now.” It’s one of the first works written for the Philip Glass Ensemble, and one which requires great stamina and concentration.

PROGRAM #935: From the New Sounds Live Concerts (First aired 4/22/93)

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Margaret Leng Tan

Live

P. Glass "How Now" {30:00}

Neither this performance nor a version for solo piano is commercially available. A version for ensemble has been recorded by the group Alter Ego on Stradivarius records STR 33649 www.stradivarius.it

Tom Bogdan & Harry Huff

Live

R. Moran: "3 Baroque Songs" {10:00}
"Hexagram Aria"{4:00}
"The World is Round" {4:00}

These works not commercially available, although you might get lucky on auction sites. Discography and info at http://members.macconnect.com

*, ** - Find the recordings you've heard - go to the New Sounds Recordings Information page

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