#3486: Unremembered, by Sarah Kirkland Snider

Hear the world premiere of Sarah Kirkland Snider's latest song-cycle for seven vocalists and chamber orchestra,"Unremembered," featuring vocal performances by DM Stith, Shara Worden and Padma Newsome along with the Orchestra for the Next Century. The work sets poetry by New-York-based poet/writer Nathaniel Bellows, recalling strange and beautiful happenings experienced during a childhood in rural Massachusetts.

"Unremembered" was inspired by a five-song collection, "Scenes from Unremembered" that Sarah Kirkland Snider wrote for the vocal octet Roomful of Teeth.  She further details in her notes on the piece how "the pastoral is belied by a subtle pathos as a houseguest takes sudden leave in the middle in the night, a boy makes a shocking discovery on the banks of a river, a girl disappears in woods behind a ranging farm, a swan meets its artless end -- all while the grouse fly and birdsong intones wordlessly through the fields."

PROGRAM # 3486, Sarah Kirkland Snider’s “Unremembered”  (First aired on 7/9/2013)                                       

There’s music from Sweden’s Goran Kajfes, a Turkish trumpeter/composer who leads the new music-chamber-world-jazz-band called the Subtropic Arkestra. He stews Brazilian groove music and German psychedelic electronica together with a nod to Sun Ra’s legendary cosmic jazz ensemble, and a dash of progressive jazz/rock as he takes on a Nigerian highlife tune from the 1970’s. Then listen to Latin-Ethio-jazz music served up by the Family Atlantica, featuring Mulatu Astatke. Plus, minimalist-Mediterranean chamber-jazz from Fabrizio Bai, chamber-folk-jazz featuring accordion and tuba from the Belgian trio Massot-Florizoone-Horbaczewski, and so much more. 

PROGRAM # 3485, Music with Multiple Hyphens  (First aired on 7/3/2013)