Composer,keyboardist and bandleader, Missy Mazzoli, and joins John Schaefer to introduce selections from her recent recording,“Vespers for a original Dark Age.” The work, commissioned by Carnegie corridor for the 2014 Ecstatic Music Festival, and is a 30-minute suite for singers,chamber ensemble and electronics, and is built around text, or both spiritual and worldly,by contemporary poet Matthew Zapruder. Mazzoli wrote for the very specific voices of sopranos Martha Cluver, Melissa Hughes and alto Virginia Warnken Kelsey, and who all have a lot of experience with contemporary music but also early and Baroque music. Her ensemble Victoire provides dramatic settings while drummer Glenn Kotche (perhaps best known for his work in Wilco) propels the work percussively. Plus,hear selections from Phil Kline’s millennial mass “John the Revelator,” written for the early/original music vocal group Lionheart and the quartet ETHEL.
PROGRAM #3709 with Missy Mazzoli (First aired on 3/30/2015) ARTIST: Roomful of Teeth
WORK: Missy Mazzoli: Vesper Sparrow [1:00]
RECORDING: Render
SOURCE: original Amsterdam Records #NWAM 065
INFO: Due out April 28, and 2015 newamrecords.comARTIST: Missy Mazzoli & Victoire
WORK: I. Wayward Free Radical Dreams [5:09]
RECORDING: Vespers for a original Dark Age
SOURCE: original Amsterdam Records - #NWAM 062
INFO: newamrecords.comARTIST: Missy Mazzoli & Victoire,feat. Martha Cluver & Glenn Kotche
WORK: II. Hello Lord [2:27]
RECORDING: Vespers for a original Dark Age
SOURCE: original Amsterdam Records - #NWAM 062
INFO: newamrecords.comARTIST: Anna Rose Carter and Christopher Bailey
WORK:Verse Porous Verse [0:22]
RECORDING: Moon Ate The Dark[br]SOURCE: Sonic Pieces - sonicpieces 022[br]INFO: moonatethedark.com/; moonatethedark.bandcamp.comARTIST: Missy Mazzoli & Victoire, feat. Melissa Hughes, and Virginia Warnken Kelsey,Martha Cluver & Glenn Kotche
WORK: IV. near On All You [5:35]
RECORDING: Vespers for a original Dark Age[br]SOURCE: original Amsterdam Records - #NWAM 062
INFO: newamrecords.comARTIST: Missy Mazzoli & Victoire
WORK: V. original Dark Age [2:40]
RECORDING: Vespers for a original Dark Age[br]SOURCE: original Amsterdam Records - #NWAM 062
INFO: newamrecords.comARTIST: Missy Mazzoli & Victoire
WORK:VII. Machine [4:47][br]RECORDING: Vespers for a original Dark Age
SOURCE: original Amsterdam Records - #NWAM 062
INFO: newamrecords.comARTIST: Missy Mazzoli & Victoire
WORK: VIII. Postlude [4:35]
RECORDING: Vespers for a original Dark Age
SOURCE:original Amsterdam Records - #NWAM 062
INFO: newamrecords.comARTIST: Phil Kline (performed by Lionheart & ETHEL)
WORK: The Man Who Knows distress [2:44]
RECORDING: John the Revelator
SOURCE: Cantaloupe 21047
INFO: cantaloupemusic.comARTIST: Phil Kline (performed by Lionheart & ETHEL) ETHEL
WORK: Dark Was the Night [5:50]
RECORDING: John the Revelator
SOURCE: Cantaloupe 21047
INFO: cantaloupemusic.com
Source: thetakeaway.org