America's most robust export is its art and culture. But as with many things that become customary, our ubiquitous expressions seem less vibrant and prophetic here at home.
This week, host Terrance McKnight share music by Florence Price, an early 20th century composer whose musical vocabulary evolved into a a harmonic and rhythmic synthesis of American life. Plus, works by American originals like Ives, Rzewski, Harrison and others.
Playlist:
They Are There
Charles Ives
Charles Ives, piano
CRI
North American Ballads: Down By The Riverside
Frederic Rzewski
Frederic Rzewski, piano
Cantaloupe
Elegy (In Memory of Horatio Parker)
George W. Chadwick
Brno State Philharmonic
Jose Serebrier
Reference
Romance
Alexander Scriabin
Steven Isserlis, cello
Thomas Ades, piano
RCA
Creation du Monde
Darius Milhaud
Turtle Island String Quartet
Ying Quartet
Telarc
Harlem Symphony: April in Harlem
James P. Johnson
Concordia Orchestra
Marin Alsop, conductor
Music Masters
Suite for Symphonic Strings
Lou Harrison
American Composers Orchestra
Dennis Rusell Davies, conductor
Argo
Dances in the Canebrakes
Florence Price
William Chapman Nyaho, piano
MSR
The Chairman Dances
John Adams
City of Birmingham Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor
Six Hungarian Dances
Johannes Brahms
Orchestre symphonique de Quebec
Yoav Talmi, conductor
Analekta
Zakir
John McLaughlin
Hariprasad Chaurasia, flute
Jan Gabarek, saxophone
John McLaughlin, guitar
Zakir Hussein, tabla, percussion
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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.
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Comments [2]
Wrong. I found on another website that there was some overdubbing by Kronos over the original recording done by Ives. My bad.
That Charles Ives piece is from the Kronos Quartet's "Black Angels" CD. I don't remember any credit in the liner notes to that actually being Ives playing or singing.
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