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Doug Balliet's The Four Seasons
Spring
Doug Balliett, composition Rob Nairn, double bass soloist Francis Liu, violin Elizabeth Derham, violin Edwin Kaplan, viola Serafim Smigelskiy, cello Stuart Breczinski, oboe David Byrd-Marrow, horn Brad Balliett, bassoon & poetry James Blachly, conductor Recorded at Oktaven Studios Ryan Streber, producer
Summer
Doug Balliett, composition Rob Nairn, double bass soloist Francis Liu, violin Elizabeth Derham, violin Edwin Kaplan, viola Serafim Smigelskiy, cello Stuart Breczinski, oboe David Byrd-Marrow, horn Brad Balliett, bassoon & poetry James Blachly, Conductor
Autumn
Doug Balliett, composition Rob Nairn, double bass soloist Francis Liu, violin Elizabeth Derham, violin Edwin Kaplan, viola Serafim Smigelskiy, cello Stuart Breczinski, oboe David Byrd-Marrow, horn Brad Balliett, bassoon & poetry James Blachly, Conductor
Winter
Doug Balliett, composition Rob Nairn, double bass soloist Francis Liu, violin Elizabeth Derham, violin Edwin Kaplan, viola Serafim Smigelskiy, cello Stuart Breczinski, oboe David Byrd-Marrow, horn Brad Balliett, bassoon & poetry James Blachly, conductor Recorded at Oktaven Studios Ryan Streber, producer
EXO Meditation Series
COMMISSIONED EXO ARTISTS TO CREATE THOUGHTFUL REFLECTIONS, 2-4 MINUTES IN LENGTH, THAT WOULD CREATE "MOMENTS OF WONDER" DURING THE 2020-21 PANDEMIC YEAR
Doug Balliett, Composition and Videography
Brad Balliett, Composer, Bassoons, & Videography
Through a Glass Darkly for Chorus and Soloists Art by Katharine Dufault Oil on canvas and/or encaustic on panel katharinedufault.com
Music by James Blachly
Excerpted from Nunc per speculum in aenigmate
Performed by the Choir of Trinity Church Wall Street, 2010
Ling Ling Huang, Violin
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005: 1. Adagio
Brooklyn, NY
Jeremy Levine, Percussion
Charles Overton, Harp Please visit http://www.charlesovertonmusic.com/
Images courtesy of Sat Hari Khalsa, Jenny Leetch, and Amrit Khalsa;
editing by James Blachly
Music by Pauline Kim Harris (violin) and Jesse Stiles (electronics)
Recorded live on February 27, 2020 at Carnegie Mellon University Video
Art by Angela Washko
All rights reserved © 2020
Kirsten Volness, composition (www.kirstenvolness.com)
Izia Weyman, viola
Colin Weyman, French horn
Megan Slusarewicz, artwork
Music by Jessie Montgomery and Eleanor Oppenheim
Art by Juliette Woodcum
Played by Andrew Yee, cello
Composed by James Blachly
For Beth Potter
EXO: VOTE!
FOLLOWING THE CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED CHANDOS RELEASE OF OUR WORLD-PREMIERE RECORDING OF DAME ETHEL SMYTH’S THE PRISON, AND INSPIRED BY HER ACTIVISM, EXO SEEKS TO ENCOURAGE ITS AUDIENCE TO EXERCISE THEIR RIGHT TO VOTE, HOWEVER POSSIBLE.
EXO HAS COMMISSIONED FIVE ORIGINAL DIGITAL PROJECTS TO PROMOTE VOTING.
Music: "K'Zohar Harakia" by Judd Greenstein
Performed by Ayane Kozasa (viola) & Paul Wiancko (cello)
Engineering by Paul WianckoAnimation by Ayane Kozasa
"I Voted" cookie by Baked NYC
Patrick Castillo-Composition
Lynne Marie Rosenberg-Visuals
Animation by Lembit Beecher
Music by Joseph Boulogne and Lembit Beecher
Performed by Lembit Beecher, Brad Balliett, Ben Roidl-Ward, Maddy Wildman and Karen Ouzounian
Animation: Ben Willis
Composer: James Blachly
Performer: Mark Dover, Clarinet
ABCDEFG by Gordon Monahan
Performed and recorded by String Noise
Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim Harris, Violin
Illustrated and animated by Adrianne Pope
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Additional support
The Julia Perry Centenary Celebration & Festival is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Permission to use this photograph of Julia Perry is granted by Talbott Music Library Special Collections and Westminster Choir College Archives (Julia Perry Collection), Rider University. Digital image, copyright 2021.
Festival Concerts
FEATURED COLLABORATORS
Smyth’s haunting music, given here in conductor James Blachly’s new edition, is beautifully constructed and highly evocative (with quotes or allusions to earlier Smyth scores). Her orchestration is limpid and masterly, rendered lovingly here by Blachly with the Experiential Orchestra. The choral contribution is relatively minor, the focus rightly on the two soloists, but again superbly performed… Magnificent sound from Chandos, too. Very strongly recommended.
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