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Item Description:Streaming audio.
Music for spatially separated performers. The 1st work for 16 percussionists; the 2nd work for solo violin with 2 flutes, solo oboe with 2 clarinets, solo violoncello with 2 bassoons, piano 4 hands, timpani, xylophone, chimes, glockenspiel, soprano voice with trumpet, mezzo-soprano with trumpet, tenor with trombone, and baritone with trombone; the 3rd work for piano, 2 violins, viola, violoncello, and accordion.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Participant or Performer:In the 1st work: Pulse Percussion Ensemble ; Gamelan Son of Lion ; Tropical Soul Steel Drums ; Pheeroan akLaff, Michael Veal, jazz drum set ; Henry Brant, conductor. In the 2nd work: Doanna Weissgerber, soprano ; Svetlana Kagan, mezzo-soprano ; Laurent Martin, tenor ; Adam McLearan, baritone ; University of California, Santa Cruz Orchestra ; Nicole A. Paiement, conductor. In the 3rd work: Henry Brant, piano ; Richard Yaus, accordion ; Onyx Quartet (Anna Presler, Phyllis Kamrin, violin ; Kurt Rohde, viola ; Leighton Fong, violoncello).
Language:The 2nd work sung in vocalise.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:The 1st work recorded Sept. 11, 1988 at Crowell Concert Hall, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Conn., during a tribute to Henry Brant on his 85th birthday; the 3rd work recorded at its first public performance, Nov. 11, 1997, at the Cowell Theatre in Fort Mason, San Francisco, during the 4th Other Minds Festival.