Name: Orson Welles reads Walt Whitman by brainpicker
Duration: 3 min 28 s
Description: Background, context, and poem text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/09/28/orson-welles-reads-walt-whitman-song-of-myself/

Giddyhead - A conversation with my piano (Original Mix)


A conversation with my piano

Background, context, and poem text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/09/28/orson-welles-reads-walt-whitman-song-of-myself/

CONTEXT / POEM TEXT

Orson Welles reads Walt Whitman

Full context and poem text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/04/27/janna-levin-reads-planetarium-by-adrienne-rich/

Recorded at "The Universe in Verse," April 24, 2017.

Photograph of Janna Levin by Molly Walsh / Academy of American Poets

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

Astrophysicist Janna Levin reads "Planetarium" by Adrienne Rich

Solo

Chant

Music Director Jaap van Zweden is joined by pianist Yefim Bronfman in a performance of Beethoven's 2nd piano concerto. The concert was recorded live on January 22, 2019, and concluded with Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2.

BEETHOVEN: Concerto for Piano No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19
Yefim Bronfman, Piano

RACHMANINOFF: Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27

Jaap van Zweden, Conductor

NYP 19-32

Host: Alec Baldwin
Producer: Mark Travis
Executive Producer: Vince Ford
Underwriters: Kaplan Brothers Fund; Audrey Love Charitable Foundation; The National Endowment for the Arts; MetLife Foundation

Photo credit: Chris Lee

Jaap van Zweden Conducts Beethoven and Rachmaninoff

You can learn to play this piece. FREE scores and parts, among other materials, are available online: kronosquartet.org/fifty-for-the-future

Composed by Zakir Hussain
Arranged by Reena Esmail
Performed by Kronos Quartet and Zakir Hussain
© 2017 Kronos Arts Publishing
℗ 2019 Kronos Performing Arts Association
Commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire

Produced by Kronos Quartet and Reshena Liao
Recorded August 2018 at 25th Street Recording, Oakland, CA
Engineered by Zach Miley
Assistant engineer: Gabriel Shepard
Mixed by Zach Miley and David Harrington at Decibelle Recording, San Francisco, CA

Zakir Hussain - Pallavi

A wonderfully immersive suite of five stunning new tracks, ‘Shifts’ expands upon Swedish-Iranian pianist / composer Shida Shahabi’s debut album and confirms her as a genuine new force in contemporary piano music.

Without radically departing from the ‘Homes’ blueprint, this time around her pallette is expanded, with the opening three tracks seeing the prominent addition of cello, intertwining with piano to provide a powerfully emotive sweep and drone. These parts were provided by Linnea Olsson, who Shida calls "an old musician friend of mine and without a doubt the best cellist I know in Sweden.”

Recorded by Shida and Elias Krantz, the record was mixed by Hampus Norén and mastered at Calyx by Francesco Donadello (Jóhann Jóhannsson, Modeselektor & Thom Yorke, A winged Victory for the Sullen, Dustin O'Halloran, Lubomyr Melnyk, Hauchka, etc).

Shifts

Sea Ear

London based composer and singer-songwriter, Dan Michaelson is our first guest in this ongoing series of ambient mixes designed for introspection, quiet walks, winding down, or meditation. Volume 3 features an eclectic mix of artists along with a song from Michaelson's album coming out on July 24th, 2020 - called Colourfield. 

LIVING SKETCH (EXCERPT) - HARUOMI HOSONO 
MORNING - RYUICHI SAKAMOTO AND ALVA NOTO
OPTO FILE 1 - ALVA NOTO
THE FARTHEST PLACE - JOHN LUTHER ADAMS
FROM INSIDE, LOOKING OUT - DANIEL THORNE
LIVING SKETCH (EXCERPT) - HARUOMI HOSONO 
COLOURFIELD PRELUDE - DAN MICHAELSON
THE WATER RISES - LAURIE ANDERSON & KRONOS QUARTET
THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC - GAVIN BRYARS
FACING NORTH: NORTHERN LIGHTS 1 - MEREDITH MONK
DRONES IN LARGE CYCLES - NICO MUHLY

Ambient Meditations Vol. 3 by Dan Michaelson

James Joyce reads from the Aeolus episode of Ulysses, the only passage he found to be “declamatory” and thus suitable for recital.

Background and context: http://exp.lore.com/post/53132569188/as-open-culture-explains-this-rare-1924-recording

Orson Welles reads Walt Whitman

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