J. Kimo Williams, composer of "With Malice Toward None," was inspired by Beethoven's hope that musical expression could affect change, dedicating his piece to the late Civil Rights leader John Lewis.
Composer Biography
Komitas, an Armenian ethnomusicologist and composer, collected and transcribed over 3,000 pieces of Armenian folk music, aiming to introduce it to a global audience.
Composition History
"What is The Word?" by Christopher Theofanidis and Mark Wingate is based on Samuel Beckett's last poem, written in response to his own late encounter with aphasia.
Performer Biography
The Apollo Chamber Players, based in Houston, TX, have performed for sold-out audiences at Carnegie Hall and were the first American chamber ensemble to record and perform in Cuba in over fifty years.
Compositional Technique
Pamela Z, composer of "The Unraveling," uses the string quartet as a "human sample-playback device," creating phrases from chopped-up, layered, and looped fragments of Joni Mitchell's "All I Want."
Recording & Production
This album features guest artists including Tracy Silverman on electric violin, Pamela Z on voice and electronics, Joan DerHovsepian on guest viola, Arsen Petrosyan on duduk, and Pejman Hadadi on percussion.
Composition History
The Apollo Chamber Players launched a project in 2014 to commission 20 new multicultural works by the end of the decade, which concluded in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concerts, December 1944
