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Program 08-11-02-B |
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The East Village Opera Company's new album, "Olde School," was 300 years in the making. The group gives some of opera's greatest hits an extreme musical make-over, re-imagining them as popular songs. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll meet the co-founders of The East Village Opera Company and find out what happens when old school meets new school. Also, we'll explore the history of the 20th century through the history of its music with Alex Ross, author of the award-winning book, "The Rest Is Noise."
SEGMENT 1:
Alex Ross is the music critic for "The New Yorker" and author of the Pulitzer Prize winning "The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century." Ross tells Anne Srainchamps how modern music has used other forms to develop including rock and film music. Also, the East Village Opera Company gives the traditional operatic repertory an extreme musical make-over re-imagining arias as popular songs. Peter Kiesewalter, the group's arranger and instrumentalist, and Tyley Ross, one of their vocalists, tell Jim Fleming how any why they do what they do and we hear examples.
SEGMENT 2:
Ben Ratliff has been a jazz critic at the NY Times since 1996. He's also the author of "The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music." Ratliff tells Steve Paulson some of what he learned from talking with jazz greats like Pat Metheny and Ornette Coleman as they listened to music they admire. And we hear some of their music.
SEGMENT 3:
Syd Straw is an indie singer-songwriter best-known for her work with other musicians. She's just released her first new album in 12 years. She talks with TTBOOK's Doug Gordon about "Pink Velour," and we hear examples from it.
CD copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 08-11-02-B.
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Books & CDs:
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Ben Ratliff, The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music (Times Books/Henry Holt and Company) |
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Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Picador) |
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| East Village Opera Company, Olde School (Decca) |  |
| Syd Straw, Pink Velour |  |
Websites:
- -- Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
http://www.therestisnoise.com/
- -- East Village Opera Company
http://www.eastvillageoperacompany.com/
- -- Ben Ratliff/"The Jazz Ear"
http://us.macmillan.com/thejazzear
- -- Syd Straw
http://www.sydstraw.com/sydstraw/
http://www.myspace.com/sydstraw
RELATED VIDEO CLIP:
-- John Cage/4'33''
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUJagb7hL0E
Music:
- -- Music used in Alex Ross mix:
-- "We Will Rock You"/Queen
from the CD, "News of the World" (Hollywood Records)
-- "Fanfare for the Common Man"/Aaron Copland
Performed by New York Philharmonic Leonard Bernstein, conductor
from the CD, "Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, New York Philharmonic (CBS Records)
-- "Tomorrow Never Knows"/The Beatles
from the CD, "Revolver" (Parlophone/Capitol Records)
-- "Revolution 9"/The Beatles
from the CD, "The Beatles" (also known as "The White Album") (Parlophone/Capitol Records)
-- "Quartet for the End of Time (Quatuor pour la fin du Temps)"/Oliver Messiaen
Performed by Chamber Music Northwest (David Shifrin, clarinet; Ik-Hwan Bae, violin; Warren
Lash, cello; William Doppmann, piano)
from the CD, "Messiaen/Bartok"/Chamber Music Northwest (Delos International)
-- "Peter Grimes"/Benjamin Britten
Performed by Peter Pears, Claire Watson & cast; Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera
House, Covent Garden
from the CD, "Benjamin Britten/Peter Grimes" (London)
-- "The Perilous Night"/John Cage
from the LP, "John Cage: Music for Keyboard: 1935-1948"
Performed by Jeanne Kirstein, prepared piano; piano & toy piano (Columbia)
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- -- Music used in East Village Opera Company mix:
-- "King of the Night" (from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Die Zauberflote")/East Village Opera
Company
-- "The Ride" (from Richard Wagner's "Die Walkure")/East Village Opera Company
-- "As You Were Then" (from Vincenzo Bellini's "Norma")/East Village Opera Company
-- "Butterfly Duet" (from Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly")/East Village Opera Company
-- "Walk" (from George Frideric Handel's "Semele")/East Village Opera Company
All selections from the CD, "Olde School"/East Village Opera Company (Decca Records/Universal Music)
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- -- "Allegro from Mozart's 40th Symphony
in G minor"/Dave Edmunds
from the CD, "Hand Picked Musical Fantasies" (Handpicked Records/Dave Edmunds)
http://www.rockabillyhall.com/DaveEdmunds1.html
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- -- Music used in Ben Ratliff Mix:
-- "All The Things You Are"/Coleman Hawkins & Sonny Rollins
from the CD, "Sonny Meets Hawk!" (RCA)
-- "Tikanto Shabbos"/Josef "Yossele" Rosenblatt
from the CD, "Rarities for Shabbat and Rosh-Chodesh" (Israel Music/Qualiton Imports)
-- "Sleep Talking"/Ornette Coleman
from the CD, "Sound Grammar" (Sound Grammar)
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- -- "Cheryl"/Charlie Parker
from the CD, "Bird/The Savoy Recordings (Master Takes), Volume 1" (Savoy Jazz)
- -- Music used in Syd Straw Mix:
-- "Pink Velour"/Syd Straw
-- "About to Forget"/Syd Straw
-- "Harvest"/Syd Straw
These three selections are from the "Pink Velour" CD (Earnester Records)
http://www.sydstraw.com/sydstraw/
http://www.myspace.com/sydstraw
-- "CBGB's"/Syd Straw
from the CD, "War and Peace" (Capricorn Records)
-- "Blue Shadows on the Trail"/Syd Straw
from the CD, "Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films"/Various
Artists (A&M)
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- -- "Time Is Tight"/Booker T. & The M.G.'s
from the CD, "Rock Instrumental Classics, Volume 4: Soul" (Rhino)
http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=71604
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