Ernst Bacon News
American composer and musician (1898-1990)
- piano
- United States of America
- composer, music teacher, pianist, conductor
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2023-06-02 00:00:00
Barber, Piston & Tower Orchestral Works and Abraham Lincoln Portraits (Leonard Slatkin)
[…] Hall, Saint Louis, USARecording engineer: William Hoekstra; Producer: Joanna Nickrenz and Marc Aubort~Quite a while ago, a online friend kindly sent me this CD-rip but without any artwork. I recently found that archive.org could come to my rescue- so now here it is with thanks.Abraham Lincoln Portraits1.01 Charles Ives: Lincoln, The Great Commoner * [3'39]1.02 Vincent Persichetti: A Lincoln Address, op.124 ^ [13'22]1.03 Roy Harris: Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight ~ [14'10]1.04 - 1.15 Ernst Bacon: Ford's Theatre. A Few Glimpses of Easter Week, 1865 [29'43]2.01 Morton Gould: Lincoln Legend [16'36]2.02 - 2.06 George Frederick McKay: To a Liberator. A Lincoln Tribute * [11'18]2.07 Paul Turok: Variations on an American Song. Aspects of Lincoln and Liberty, op.20 [9'18]2.08 Aaron Copland: Lincoln Portrait ^ [14'31]Barry Scott- narrator^; Sharon Mabry- mezzo~; Nashville Symphony Chorus*; Nashville Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard SlatkinNaxos 8.559373-74 [recorded July 2007 and July & September 2008; CD and […]
2022-06-03 04:34:01
Tim Brady loves a good challenge. His ¬latest: setting poems in an Indigenous ¬language to music. To do this, the -composer-guitarist chose a poem collection entitled Uiesh (“Somewhere”) written by famous Innu poet Joséphine Bacon. “I really loved Joséphine Bacon’s work,” he said. “I thought it would be quite a challenge to ¬compose music a [...]
2022-05-13 08:02:09
The Earth Moves: The Tallis Scholars in Antoine Brumel and David Lang
[…] piece to the Brumel, Lang wrote sun-centred, a deeply philosophical work based on a pun. When tried by the Roman Catholic Church for his claim that the Earth moved around the Sun, Galileo formally recanted but is reputed to have said at the end of the process, 'and yet it moves'. This is the final text of Lang's work, he opens with his own adaptation of Galileo's speech at the trial and in between there is Francis Bacon, one of the Psalms and Plato. Whilst Lang's language is very, very different to Brumel's there are commonalities. Whilst the text he sets is deeply philosophical, apart from the opening movement which sets Galileo's speech for a solo baritone with just four other singers, clarity of text is not important to Lang, it is simply a means of inspiration. And texture is the overarching theme, and variety of textures. Each movement is laid out […]
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