Duke Ellington once said “There are two kinds of music -- good music and the other kind.” A conclusion like this can be made by anyone of us. We all have the right to express our opinions against whether or not a musician's artistic expression is acceptable to our tastes.
Sometimes art can downright offend us. On tonight's All Ears, we explore the varying degrees in which offensiveness rules over taste, brushing closely against our sensitivities.
Just as art offends, so does music.
Playlist:
Indian Love Call
Wayne, Kahn
Louis Armstrong, trumpet; Carroll Dickerson, violin, director
Disques Swing
Volume Three: Study No. 10
Conlon Nancarrow
OM
Nocturne No. 13 in c minor, Op. 48/1
Frederic Chopin/Jacques Loussier
Telarc
Libertango
Astor Piazzolla
Imani Winds
Koch
Reverie
Erik Satie
Erik Lindren, piano
SFZ
Frog's Eye
Evan Ziporyn
Boston Modern Orchestra Project; Gil Rose, conductor
Cantaloupe
Piccaninny shoes
Noble Sissle/Eubie Blake
Paul Robeson, bass-baritone
Angel/EMI
Symphony No.1
Kurt Weill
Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Antony Beaumont, conductor
Chandos
Forbidden Fruit
John Zorn
Kromos Quartet
Christian Marclay, turntables; Ohta Hiromi, vocals
Nonesuch
Hout
Louis Andriessen
Bang on a Can All-Stars
Cantaloupe
Improvisiation 9Saxophone Solo)
Eugene J. Bozza
Paquito D'Rivera, saxophone
Chesky
Concerto for saxophone and strings in E-flat, Op. 109
Alexander Glazunov
New Stockholm Chamber Orchestra
Jorma Panula, conductor
Pekka Savijoki, saxophone
BIS
Hymnodic Delays
Ingram Marshall
Theatre of Voices
Paul Hillier, conductor
Nonesuch
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About All Ears with Terrance McKnight
All Ears with Terrance McKnight is a weekly show about musical discovery. Covering a wide range of styles, genres and periods, the show celebrates the diverse musical passions of its host, Terrance McKnight, as well as occasional guests -- including performers, composers, choreographers, critics and others. As music and ideas are experienced side by side, the power of music to transform is revealed and celebrated.
Hosted by Terrance McKnight
Comments [6]
I'm glad you all listen to my show. We'll post the playlist shortly. you'll also be able to listen again when it is archived. thanks!
I absolutely LOVED falling asleep to the choral piece that was played last night, but as someone else mentioned, I didn't quite catch the title or composer... I believe it was slightly contemporary, though at times sounded as if it could be quite old.
:)
Can you please post a playlist?
I really enjoyed the piece by Ziporin; thanks for playing it. However, when Mr. McKnight announced the name of the piece when it concluded, I could not understand what he said. Could you please tell what the piece is called and what label it is recorded on. Thank.
That last piece was extraordinary. I gotmthat it was sung by Paul Hillier's Theatre of voices, but I didn't get the title of the piece. What was it.
I also thought the syncopated Chopin was compelling.
awful noise
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