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 |  |  | | | | Track Listings | | | Columbus (Tanenbaum) | | | 1 I. Columbus | 8:52 | | 2 II. Journey | 7:54 | | 3 III. Conquest | 8:37 | | 4 Double Helix (Kowalski) | 12:11 | | 5 Symphony No. 1 (Yttrehus) | 23:50 | | Total time: | 61:49 |
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| | | | | | Modern American Classics - Volume VI | | | Our Price: $9.95  | | | | Item Number: MMC2104 | | Audio Format: HDCD | | Genre: Orchestral | | | | Description | | Excerpts from the Liner Notes (by Paula Diehl)
Columbus
“Columbus,” Elias Tanenbaum’s circa twenty-five minute work for full orchestra and tape is highly exciting, often moving, and contains some interesting musical constructions. Its title and the names of Parts II and III - Journey and Conquest - suggest its program, and Tanenbaum’s vision of the explorer’s mental and emotional gamut seems to rule the work, moving from explosive excitement and quieter patriotic fervor to fear, indecision and triumph.
Double Helix
“Double Helix” (1980, rev. 1992), David Kowalski’s circa twelve minute piece for full orchestra, is a one movement work. ...
It seems that Double Helix has no program of the sort often associated with one movement orchestral pieces: fantastic or romantic tales, idyllic pastoral scenes or rustic life.
Yet, the music of this work has a recognizable pattern, one touched upon in the earlier description of its almost constant motivic activity. And the title itself, Double Helix, offers some tantalizing hints, if not images, of its musical structure and content.
Symphony No. 1
Every hearing of Symphony No. 1 elicited almost identical feelings. There was a constant sense that everything was in the open. Nothing departed the scene, although some musical events sounded as from a distance; the listener was there as well as near every other scene, always involved in them if it was to his liking. The sounds were like those of a busy modern city street, sometimes loud, shrill, crashing, but taking place within boundaries, and with departure hardly an option. Musical action was fragmented, and outlined intervals continually ascended, returned, descended twice, returned, ascended again, descended again. |
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