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Baker: The Glass Bead Game - Awaking the Winds - Shadows - The Mystic Trumpeter

3/1/2013, 10 Tracks, 1:06:11

Featuring

  • Leonard Slatkin
  • Hans Vonk
  • Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
  • Claude Baker

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Performer Biography

Leonard Slatkin, a conductor on this album, is currently Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre National de Lyon, and Principal Guest Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

The St. Louis Symphony, founded in 1880, is the second-oldest orchestra in the United States and has received six GRAMMY® Awards and 56 GRAMMY® nominations.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Hans Vonk, a conductor on this album, served as Music Director and Conductor of the St. Louis Symphony for six seasons, from 1996 to 2002.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Leonard Slatkin's parents, conductor-violinist Felix Slatkin and cellist Eleanor Aller, were founding members of the Hollywood String Quartet.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Claude Baker, the composer, earned his doctoral degree from the Eastman School of Music and has received numerous professional honors, including an Academy Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

This recording was made possible by a grant from the New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities Program at Indiana University, Bloomington, with additional funding from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Claude Baker served as Composer-in-Residence of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra for eight years, starting in the 1991-92 concert season.

Source: Booklet

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