The 21st-Century Orchestra: Music from Brown University

Featuring

Gil Rose
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Wang Lu
Joseph Butch Rovan
Anthony Cheung
Eric Nathan

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Compositional Technique

Joseph Butch Rovan's work, Scattering, features a custom instrument called TOSHI (The Orchestra-Synthesis Human Interface), worn like a wristwatch by the conductor to trigger live electronic sounds.

Performer Biography

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) has won seventeen ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming and was named Musical America's Ensemble of the Year in 2016.

Recording & Production

BMOP/sound, the independent record label founded by Gil Rose, has released over 86 recordings of contemporary music and has secured nine GRAMMY® nominations, winning one in 2020.

Recording & Production

The album features works by Anthony Cheung, Wang Lu, Eric Nathan, and Joseph Butch Rovan, who are all professors at Brown University.

Compositional Technique

Many works on this album direct musicians to produce sounds beyond their instruments, foregrounding the orchestra as a mass of people rather than just instruments.

Recording & Production

This album is one of the first commercial releases recorded in the new Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University, which was completed in 2023 and designed for 21st-century acoustic preferences.

Performer Biography

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), led by Gil Rose, is the premier orchestra in the world focused on commissioning, recording, and performing new music for symphony orchestra.