The various versions, based on hearsay, recollection, and tall tales, explore the subject of human vs. machine in this quintessential American legend. Her Story captures the passion and perseverance of women refusing subordination, demanding representation, and challenging the prejudice and power structures that have limited women’s … ''LOST OBJECTS is a prayer hall, a hymn but also an invention,'' writes Ms. Artman. is to honor the people who persevered and endured in the Pennsylvania Anthracite coal region during a time when the industry fueled the nation, and to reveal a bit about who we are as American workers. We have none. The younger ones worked in the breakers, which were large ominous structures. Heat your house.Blend a drink. Her music is published by Red Poppy, Ltd. (ASCAP) and is distributed worldwide by Ricordi/Universal Music Classical. LAD (for 9 bagpipes), and Accordion Love (accordion concerto) explore and experiment with folk performance traditions. recordings. 1945-12-24. orchestra + amplified ensemble (cl, pno, perc, egtr, vc, db) On this recording Robert Black plays all eight parts.the Hartt Bass Band, Bang on a Can Marathon, Winter Garden, New York, NY, 31 May 2008Bagpipe Orchestra, Bang on a Can Festival, New York, NY, 2 June 2007Bang on a Can All-Stars, Krannert Center, Champagne-Urbana, IL, April 2002When Talujon Percussion Quartet asked me to write a piece for 4 percussionists I immediately thought of the drums. The text is culled from the over 200 versions of the John Henry ballad. She never felt poor. Director Michael Counts and scenic designer Deborah Johnson (aka CandyStations) create an immersive landscape. It is a precarious balance, between blessing and curse, between life and death, between plenty and scarcity.Ars Nova and Athelas Sinfonietta; Paull Hillier, conductor; Feb. 2, 2009In classical music, it is quite unusual for composers to collaborate, but it wasn't like that among Flemish Renaissance painters –– if the painter in the studio next door did better angels and you painted better flowers, it wasn't unusual for a collaboration to ensue.

The accordion is friendly. The dynamic singers of Lorelei team up with 5 major American orchestras to tell this important yet much neglected thread of American political history. Yes it has those great low notes, but you won’t hear any until halfway through the piece. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. The coal would come running down the chutes of the breakers, and the boys had the painful job of removing debris from the rush of coal. Towards of the end of Talujon Percussion Quartet with funds from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable TrustMiller Theater, New York City, NY, 28 February 2002the California E.A.R. Blow out your hair. It’s an amazing instrument – 2 cymbals crashing together by means of a foot pedal and struck from above. Others were adapted from children’s street rhymes. I have referenced the folk music influence in many of my other works - Four Marys (for string quartet) and Cruel Sister (for string orchestra) take folk tales as the inspiration for the music.

I realized that the music I was writing was exactly like this—that I was creating a state of anticipation and forward build. I drew upon the extreme variations of the story, fragmenting and weaving the contradictory versions of the ballad that have circulated since the late 1800s in to a new whole - at times meditating on single words or phrases – in order to tell the story of the story - to embody the simultaneous diverse paths it traveled.The sounds of Appalachia have long been a part of my musical consciousness. Daher sammeln wir sie. The author would introduce small incidents with phrases like “Early that summer ...” Incidents would snowball into major political events or crises. I was struck by John L. Lewis’ line “those of us who benefit from that service because we live in comfort.” Our days are filled with activities that require power.

At the end of the long country road you’d reach the highway — route 309. Concertos in my mind have meant ''flashy''...I began to think about what could make the experience of the concerto special — how an individual voice could ride the wave of a large ensemble. When we bake a cake or grind coffee beans we use coal. "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." Geschichten erzählen macht froh und verbindet uns. Full information here. I chose only the Johns with one-syllable last names in alphabetical order. I thought of the accordion. Permalink. Boil some water.Push the buzzer. Screams may be present in my music, but they happen suddenly without warning, frenetic and hyper. When we first moved there the road was dirt and the woods surrounding the house offered an endless playground of natural forts and ice skating trails. The revolutionary show won the Village Voice 2000 OBIE Award for Best New American Work. Bang on a Can All-Stars, Trio Mediaeval: 11/13/09 at The Philips Center at the University of Florida, Gainesville FLWater is an exploration through music, staging and projection of how dependent we are upon water in our world, and how uneasy our dependence really is. As I veered off into more experimental ideas in music the folk threads remained - references in pieces like Steel Hammer is inspired by my love for the legends and music of Appalachia. Shave your face. There is a very personal connection for me. I went down into the coal mines, visited patch towns and the local museums where the life of the miners has been carefully depicted and commemorated.