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Annea Lockwood joins host Michael Schell to talk about her career trajectory and its newest manifestation from Black Truffle Records featuring collaborations with Yarn/Wire and Nate Wooley. Also in the spotlight is Liza Lim, whose new triple CD from NMC surveys three decades of her music theater works created for Elision Ensemble, including several first recordings.
Plus we sample William Parker’s latest trio album with Paula Shocron and Pablo Díaz, review some new approaches to gamelan music from Maurice Louca and Roland Dahinden, and hear Bernard Foccroulle on organ paying tribute to Trisha Brown and Conrad Tao on piano playing Sid Richardson's Beckett-inspired tribute to his grandmother. Radical new music from the Northwest and beyond.
Annotated playlist and photo credits in Comments.
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Annotated playlist for show #98
Intro and SET 1: Footfalls and gamelans [0:00]
1. [2:59] Sid Richardson: There Is No Sleep So Deep. From Borne By a Wind (New Focus, 2021) with Conrad Tao (piano), Rick Nelson (recording engineer). NOTE: Composed 2016
2. [8:25] Maurice Louca: Yara' (Fire Flies). From Saet El Hazz (The Luck Hour) (Northern Spy/Sub Rosa, 2021) with Mazen Kerbaj (trumpet, electronics), Sharif Sehnaoui (guitar), Raed Yassin (double bass), Anthea Caddy (cello), Christine Kazaryan (harp), Khaled Yassine (percussion, gamelan), Maurice Louca (guitar)
3. [12:52] Roland Dahinden: Navigate. From 6 pieces for Gamelan Slendro (Mode, 2021) with Eklekto, ensemble 0, Roland Dahinden (conductor). NOTE: Composed 2015
4. [32:37] Voice break with Samuel Beckett: Footfalls and Roger Ames/Prahas Nafissian: Abraham's Land
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SET 2: Organs and combos
1. [37:24] Bernard Foccroulle: Elegy for Trisha. From 30 Years of New Organ Works (1991–2021) (Fuga Libera/Outhere Music, 2021) with Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello), Bernard Foccroulle (organ), Manuel Mohino (recording engineer)
2. [52:23] Paula Shocron, William Parker, Pablo Díaz: Capricornio. From El Templo (Astral Spirits, 2021) with Paula Shocron (piano), William Parker (bass), Pablo Díaz (drums), René Pierre Allain (recording engineer)
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SET 3: Annea Lockwood in retrospect [1:05:25]
1. [1:09:04] Annea Lockwood in conversation with Michael Schell
2. [1:34:57] Annea Lockwood: Into the Vanishing Point. From Becoming Air/Into the Vanishing Point (Black Truffle, 2021) with Yarn/Wire: Ian Antonio, Russell Greenberg, Laura Barger, Ning Yu. NOTE: Composed 2019, for an overview of Annea Lockwood's career see https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/arts/music/annea-lockwood-miller-theater.html and https://tinyurl.com/RadioEclectus019
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SET 4: Liza Lim speaks in tongues [1:59:25]
1. [2:03:08] Liza Lim: The Oresteia - Scene 2: Memory spills from the split skulls of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, Scene 3: Cassandra (excerpt), Scene 4: The Furies (excerpt). From Singing in Tongues (HCR, 2021) with Julie Edwardson (mezzo-soprano), Deborah Kayser (mezzo-soprano, cello), Tyrone Landau (tenor), Andrew Muscat-Clark (countertenor), Grant Smith (baritone), Jeannie van de Velde (soprano), Elision Ensemble, Sandro Gorli (conductor), Jim Atkins, Michael Costa (recording engineers). NOTE: Composed 1993, recorded 1993, originally issued on The Oresteia (Dischi Ricordi, 1994)
2. [2:13:46] Liza Lim: Mother Tongue - 2. Latitude of gain. From Singing in Tongues (NMC, 2021) with Piia Komsi (soprano), Elision, Jean Deroyer (conductor), Yossi Gabbay (recording engineer). NOTE: Composed 2005, recorded 2006
3. [2:22:35] Liza Lim: The Navigator - Prelude: Weaver of fictions, Scene 1: The Unwinding, Scene 2: Sensorium. From Singing in Tongues (NMC, 2021) with The Navigator: Andrew Watts (countertenor), The Beloved: Talise Trevigne (coloratura soprano), First Siren/The Crone: Philip Larson (bass baritone), Second Siren/The Fool: Omar Ebrahim (baritone), Third Siren/The Angel of History: Deborah Kayser (Baroque alto), Elision, Manuel Nawri (conductor), Jim Atkins, Michael Hewes (recording engineers). NOTE: Composed and recorded 2008
Photo credits: William Parker via the artist, Liza Lim via Ricordi, 20th century Annea Lockwood by Geoff Adams, Roland Dahinden via the artist, Yarn/Wire via the artists, Conrad Tao by Brantley Gutierrez, Bernard Foccroulle by Thierry Cron, 21st century Annea Lockwood by Nicole Tavenner.