The Royal

Downtown

Performed by Ensemble Musikfabrik
Conductor: Aaron Cassidy
Photo by Félix Bonfils (1875)

More about the work with comments given by the musicians:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFrIfk4Bl0s

"Thousand Dead Bodies Under My Bed, All Cloaked with the Breath of the Living"

Domiciliary Excerpt

Composed for Emmalie Tello, Teagan Faran, and David Friend and the 2022 Walden Creative Musicians Retreat.

Scattered

Cloud's Trail (2021)
by Naama Perel-Tzadok (b. 1984)

* World Premiere Recording *
| The Israeli Contemporary Music Project

Naama Perel-Tzadok: Cloud's Trail | Hagai Yodan, harpsichord

Recorded live in May 2005
Concert Hall, Mannes College of Music, New York, New York

Alma Sadé, soprano
Maya Lahyani, alto
Seth Gilman, tenor
Leroy Y. Davis, bass

Note: while these works are for chorus or quartet a cappella, inadequate rehearsal time necessitated the addition of piano accompaniment for this performance.

Lover Madrigal № 1 (2002)

(After L'Addio: 0'00 / Felt: 3' 27'') After L'Addio / Felt (2014) is a two movement piece composed in collaboration with Ben. The premiere of this work took place in a recital in which a performance of Salvatore Sciarrino's "Addio a Trachis" preceded.  After L'Addio features varying levels of referentiality and filiation with "Addio...", from literal quoting to variation, to more esoteric and personal connections. Generally speaking, After is a frantic and highly tactile piece in which different levels of friction between hands and strings become syntactically relevant. Felt appears as the textural opposite of After in that the contact between performer and instrument is reduced considerably: the right hand plays with a felt pick for the entirety of the movement and the left hand features, for the most part, harmonics.

After L'Addio / Felt (for solo harp)- Ben Melsky

BODY MATTER [2015]
for amplified bassoon
Christopher Watford, bassoon [www.chriswatford.com]
Eric Fernandez, recording engineer
Recorded at the HUSEAC Studios at Harvard University

Please listen with headphones or good speakers.

BODY MATTER presents a soundworld caught in the middle of a metamorphic shift. The piece treats sound as a substance on its way to becoming an object, but in a form yet to be specified. It is encrusted and caked with earth and dirt; it is an organ whose membrane is gradually ossifying. At times it writhes; in others it obstinately maintains an effortful, concentrated reluctance to move. It is a thing in search of a body; a space in search of containment.

More info here: www.timothy-mccormack.com/bodymatter

BODY MATTER [2015]

In this intimate conversation between Krista and one of her beloved teachers, we ponder the world and our place in it, through sacred text, with fresh eyes. We’re accompanied by the meditative and prophetic poetry of Wendell Berry, read for us from his home in Kentucky: “Stay away from anything / that obscures the place it is in. / There are no unsacred places; / there are only sacred places / and desecrated places. / Accept what comes of silence."

Ellen Davis is the Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at the Duke University Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina. She’s the author of Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible. 

Wendell Berry is a farmer, poet, and environmentalist who has published more than 50 books. He lives in Port Royal, Kentucky.

Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

On Being with Krista Tippett

Wendell Berry & Ellen Davis — The Art Of Being Creatures

We called it Snow oddball because when we made it, it was a snow day.

Lover Madrigal № 1 (2002)

Osnat Netzer

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