Shakopee 2021 - Tape No.3 Side A

This is a recording of one very special event. The first ever guest DJ we had at our little FRONT Club in Hamburg : FRANKIE KNUCKLES - Godfather of House ! Recorded live August 28th 1992. Enjoy and may he have his peace in heaven - Frankie, we love you!

Frankie Knuckles@FRONT 28 08 1992

in 5 movements
I. (0:00)
II.(6:20)
III.(11:34)
IV. (17:36)
V. (22:25)

Performed live by the Knights, October 2019 at the GK Arts Center
part of FARAWAY, a collaboration between BalletCollective and The Knights, featuring Zaria Forman

Études sur les Glaciers

This version of Spirits is performed in May 2015 at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival by the Courtney Bryan ensemble including Troi Bechet (voice), Brian Quezerque (bass), and Miles Labat (drum set). It is part of a larger set. 

Spirits is an excerpt from Prophetika: an Oratorio - premiered at La MaMa Experimental Theatre March 2015 - Charlotte Brathwaite (director)/Courtney Bryan (composer)/Abigail Deville (artist) with Jadele McPherson (voice/acting), Brandee Younger (harp), Justin Hicks (voice/electronics), and Courtney Bryan (piano).

Spirits

A Presence for solo improvised piano and recorded sound 
Fromm Players at Harvard University, Creative Music Convergences curated by Vijay Iyer. 
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge MA. 
Friday, April 8, 2016

Courtney Bryan - A Presence

From the album Argonauta, available May 25, 2018 from Western Vinyl.

Pre-Order Argonauta:
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv173
Bandcamp https://aishaburns.bandcamp.com/album/argonauta
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/argonauta/1348490853?ls=1&app=itunes

Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, and currently residing in Beverly, Massachusetts, violinist, vocalist and songwriter Aisha Burns began playing violin when she was 10 years old, and has been touring and recording since 2006.  Soon after moving to Austin in 2005, she gained her start with folk-rock outfit Alex Dupree and the Trapdoor Band, and joined the instrumental ensemble Balmorhea on violin in 2007.  After years of secret singing, she released her solo debut Life in the Midwater in 2013.  Called "twisting, ethereal...arresting" by Dazed Magazine, and praised for its "delicate intimacy" by NPR, Life in the Midwater explored mortality and relationships with candor and wisdom.  Her new album Argonauta, is a collection of songs about her struggle with the grief of losing her mother, while also navigating a new relationship, and ultimately trying to figure out what the new normal is for her life.

Aisha Burns:
Website http://aishaburns.com/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/aishaburnsmusic/
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Argonauta

Aisha Burns - "Must Be A Way"

Ashleigh Gordon, viola; Ginevra Ventre, cello; Recording from premiere at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Boston, MA, 14 November 2008

Scintillation II (2008)

Jóhann Schram Reed, bass-baritone
Taylor Chan, piano
Recorded live in performance June 8, 2019 at the Center for New Music, San Francisco, CA
Full text: www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi…red-prufrock

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"Let us go, then, you and I," beckons the opening line of T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." (1915). The journey that invitation spurs, guided by the titular J. Alfred Prufrock, winds through the sitting parlors and smog-filled streets of Edwardian London, and through the innermost thoughts and fears of Prufrock himself.

The poem is a study in contradictions. It is a heroic epic written about a deeply unheroic man-- vain, self-loathing, and cautious to a fault-- lamenting the impossibility of the epic in modern life. Banal and even grotesque turns of phrase appear next to heartachingly beautiful ones, woven together with allusions to Shakespeare and Dante. Above all, Prufrock obsesses over his senescence and the eventual approach of death-- yet the poet (then signing his name T. Stearns Eliot) wrote the bulk of the poem at the age of 22. Prufrock is a spectre of what Eliot himself fears he may become-- a miserable, aging man whose life is measured and revised so carefully that he talks himself out of art, love, and happiness-- dying as alone and forgotten as he was in life.

I hope that I have done this masterpiece justice.

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This song cycle would not exist without the incredible talent and support of Jóhann Schram Reed. He is without a doubt one of the finest musicians I have ever worked with, and I am grateful to call him a mentor, a colleague, and a friend.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Part I and Invocation (LIVE)

Rejoice is written for the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. This work is inspired by Philippians 4: 4-7, and is dedicated to my family.

"Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

A World Premiere by the
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
November 21-23, 2019
The Orpheum Theater, New Orleans, LA
Carlos Miguel Prieto, Music Director
Rejoice was made possible by the League of American Orchestras’ Women Composers Readings and Commissions 
supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.

2019 November 21

Courtney Bryan - Rejoice - Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra

ALTERNATE VERSION; http://www.mediafire.com/?336z4gpurmj72hv

Teedra Moses - Be Your Girl (Kaytranada Edition)

A comprehensive list of live concert recordings

Lamenting

Composer. Co-director of New Amsterdam Records / New Amsterdam Presents. Curator of the Ecstatic Music Festival. Member of NOW Ensemble and The Yehudim. Analog w/ digital filters. New music for old instruments.

Lamenting

juddgreenstein