#2593: Eye of the Frog

Take an orchestra, add Hawaiian guitar, electric piano, Tang dynasty poetry, and a liberal helping of virtuosity on the bass clarinet, and you’ll have “Frog’s Eye,” the latest release from clarinetist/composer Evan Ziporyn. Ziporyn is a co-founder and member of the Bang On A Can All-Stars and the Artistic Director and founder the American gamelan called Gamelan Galak Tika (resulting in some 25 years of experience with Balinese gamelan.) On the eve of a Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall concert of his “attempt at ancestor worship,” a musical homage to forbears Stravinsky and Woody Herman in a work called “Big Grenadilla,” he joins host John Schaefer to present selections from his first CD of orchestral works.

PROGRAM # 2593, with Evan Ziporyn (First aired on Thurs. 10/12/06)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
Evan Ziporyn	typical music	Ngaben, excerpt [1:00]	New Albion NA#128 www.newalbion.com
Evan Ziporyn	Frog’s Eye	War Chant [14:00]	Cantaloupe #21040 www.cantaloupemusic.com
Evan Ziporyn	Frog’s Eye	Frog’s Eye [12:30] Drill, excerpt [5:00]	See above.
Evan Ziporyn	typical music	Ngaben, excerpt [8:00]	See above.

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