Notes and Editorial Reviews
Ronald Perera is the Elsie Irwin Sweeney Professor of Music at Smith College. His compositions include operas, song cycles, chamber, choral and orchestral music and several works that combine instruments or voices with electronic sounds. Donald Wheelock is Irwin and Pauline Alper Glass Professor of Music at Smith College, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1974. His teachers include Edgar Curtis, Kenneth Leighton, Quincy Porter and Yehudi Wyner. His works include four string quartets, two symphonies, many works for solo instruments, eleven song cycles and many larger ensemble and orchestral works. Ed London is known primarily as a composer and conductor. His teachers included Gunther Schuller, Luigi Dallapiccola and Darius
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Milhaud. Like two other composers and one of the performers on this recording, he has a connection with Smith College, having taught there for most of the 60s. Since then he has taught at the University of Illinois and at Cleveland State University, where he founded the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the award-winning ensemble renowned for its enthusiastic performances of the works of living composers. The name Otto Luening appears most frequently in conjunction with his pioneering efforts with Vladimir Ussachevsky in the early days of electronic music. His talents, however, ranged far wider than experimentation in this area. He was trained extensively, both in Europe and America, as a flautist, conductor and composer, and his career, both as flautist and conductor, was considerable. Read less
Works on This Recording
1.
Summer Songs (5) by Ronald Perera
Performer:
Catherine Wilson (Soprano)
Conductor:
Adrian Sunshine
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Camerata Budapest
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1972; USA
2.
Chamber Symphony by Donald Wheelock
Conductor:
Adrian Sunshine
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Camerata Budapest
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1986; USA
3.
Melodrama by Edwin London
Performer:
William Wittig (Flute)
Conductor:
Adrian Sunshine
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Camerata Budapest
Period: 20th Century
Written: USA
4.
A Set of Short Pieces (3): no 1, Largo Cantabile "Hymn" by Charles Ives
Conductor:
Adrian Sunshine
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Camerata Budapest
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1904; USA
5.
Concertino for Flute and Strings by Otto Luening
Performer:
William Wittig (Flute)
Conductor:
Adrian Sunshine
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Camerata Budapest
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1923; USA
Sound Samples
5 Summer Songs (version for soprano and orchestra): No. 1. New feet within my garden go
5 Summer Songs (version for soprano and orchestra): No. 2. South winds jostle them
5 Summer Songs (version for soprano and orchestra): No. 3. I know a place where summer strives
5 Summer Songs (version for soprano and orchestra): No. 4. To make a prairie
5 Summer Songs (version for soprano and orchestra): No. 5. The one that could repeat the summer day
Chamber Symphony: I. Tempo giusto: Moderato
Chamber Symphony: II. Scherzo: Non troppo allegro
Chamber Symphony: III. Variations: Adagio
Chamber Symphony: IV. Finale: Vivo
A Set of 3 Short Pieces (version for string orchestra): A Set of 3 Short Pieces: No. 1. Largo cantabile: Hymn (version for string orchestra)
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