Name: LAST OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER by Brent Michael Davids
Duration: 19 min 48 s
Description: "Last of James Fenimore Cooper" for string orchestra and narrator (this recording is the string quartet version). Miro Quartet, Brent Michael Davids. Copyright ©2001, Brent Michael Davids. All Rights Reserved.

Enjoyed performing this as part of Zeitgeist, too, Brent. Good piece.

'Mosaic' is a horn concerto in five movements, composed in 2010.  This is a concert recording of the performance with the Albanian Radio-Television Orchestra in Tirana, Albania, March 21, 2013-- with Bujar Llapaj, guest conductor, and Oliver de Clercq, guest horn soloist.

"Mosaic was inspired by the idea of creating a dreamscape, with the solo horn as the central character: the one experiencing the dream. I was interested in exploring the idea of dreaming as a means of processing ideas and information, but at the same time, being aware that dreaming is not a process over which we have the same degree of control as we do over our conscious thoughts. Just as real-life information and experiences are filtered and transformed through the dreaming process, several motivic ideas recur and are transformed throughout the various movements. The piece is structured in five movements (attacca), beginning with the lower strings emulating the slow breathing of one falling asleep. The second movement is bright, with melodic reference to a pelog gamelan scale. The third movement begins with a duet between solo horn and solo cello, expanding outwards from the first three notes of Brahms’ famous Lullaby, and evolving into something much more intense at the climax of the piece. The fourth movement is a cadenza for the solo horn, leading into the fifth movement, which contains reference to an out-of-body experience." (programme notes: Elizabeth Knudson)

Orchestra score and parts are available for rental from the Canadian Music Centre:

https://cmccanada.org/shop/62956/

Arrangement for horn and piano is available through the International Horn Society:

http://www.hornsociety.org/marketplace/online-library#!/~/product/category=0&id=6957407

Mosaic (for solo horn and orchestra)

You are not separate from the universe. How could you be? The whole thing worked together to give rise to you through an unbroken chain of occurrences over billions of years, and the stuff you are made of comes from the same Great Whatever as everything else. Since the dawn of life on this planet organisms have been exchanging water and other elements back and forth through eating, drinking, reproducing and dying, and you are inseparably one with that dance.

And your own elements will not die. When your incredible heart stops beating and the stuff your amazing body is made of begins to come apart, your own molecules will simply continue the dance of the elements that has been going on for billions of years.

You won't die, you'll just return. Some elements born of stardust arranged themselves on two legs, looked around, experienced countless wonders, laughed, cried, fell in love, learned and unlearned, and then changed form, like a ripple ceasing its movement and becoming indistinguishable from the surrounding water. The water remains the same — it's just doing a different dance now.

Reading by Tim Foley.

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recording/sound: Przemysław Kunda, Ewa Majcherczyk

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Taking Bach out of the museum and infusing his music with equal parts tradition, funk, whimsy, and fun, Emi Ferguson and Ruckus take you on a wild romp through some of Bach’s most playful and transcendent works. The album features new arrangements of Bach’s Flute Sonatas and Keyboard Preludes, orchestrated for baroque flute and the forces of Ruckus that include theorbos, baroque guitars, baroque bassoon, cello, viola da gamba, harpsichord, organ, bass, and even banjo.

07 - Emi Ferguson & Ruckus - Sonata In E Major BWV 1035 I. Adagio Ma Non Tanto

"Last of James Fenimore Cooper" for string orchestra and narrator (this recording is the string quartet version). Miro Quartet, Brent Michael Davids. Copyright ©2001, Brent Michael Davids. All Rights Reserved.

LAST OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER

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