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Alabama Song performed
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chr-@cnvill.demon.co.uk
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Jun 08, 2007 00:31 PDT
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Hi All,
Feldman's recently published arrangement of Kurt Weill's "Alabama Song" for soprano and ensemble was given its first performance on June 5th at the 2007 Spoleto Festival in Charleston, North Carolina, USA. It was performed by Tammy Hensrud and members of the Spoleto Festival Orchestra. The following excerpt is from a review by Joshua Rosenblum at:
http://www.charleston.net/news/2007/jun/07/lighter_side_modern_composers/
"Later, on Music in Time IV, we heard an arrangement of Kurt Weill's 'Alabama Song' by Morton Feldman (1926-1987), a New York composer known for lengthy pieces filled with sparse, quiet, slowly developing musical motifs. It was rather startling, but quite enjoyable to hear this savvy, snazzy, harmonically wild transformation for seven-piece dance band, originally written for some of Feldman's jazz-playing friends in the East Village, and only recently re-discovered by his publisher. Tammy Hensrud, who sang the number with appealingly earthy intensity in 'Mahagonny,' reprised it here with great aplomb."
Regards -
Chris
Chris Villars
www.cnvill.demon.co.uk/mfhome.htm
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