Program 754: Americans Abroad
KALW Broadcast Date: September 10, 2023 | Host: Joseph Bohigian
This program features music by American composers who have relocated to foreign countries. These composers left the United States at different times and for different reasons, and have struck different balances in their music between their new homes and their American identities. The first hour is dedicated to the music of Gloria Coates, who passed away at the age of 89 last month on August 19, 2023 in Munich, Germany where she had lived for over 50 years. Coates was a prolific composer, having written 17 symphonies, 10 string quartets, and a variety of chamber and solo pieces. The program includes her Symphony No. 1 ‘Music On Open Strings,’ String Quartet No. 7 ‘Angels,’ and Symphony No. 15 ‘Homage to Mozart’ (for Large Orchestra). The second hour of the program includes three selections from Shofar Rags by Alvin Curran (Italy), Peace Dances by Frederic Rzewski (Italy/Belgium), and Vim by Carl Stone (Japan).
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Title: Symphony No. 1 ‘Music On Open Strings’
Composer: Gloria Coates
Performers: Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Elgar Howarth, conductor
Recording Title: Gloria Coates, Symphonies 1, 4 & 7
Record Label: cpo
Catalog Number: 999 392-2
Title: String Quartet No. 7 ‘Angels’
Composer: Gloria Coates
Performers: Kreutzer Quartet; Philip Adams, organ; Michael Finnissy, conductor
Recording Title: String Quartets Nos. 2, 3, 4, 7 and 8
Record Label: Naxos
Catalog Number: 8.559152
Title: Symphony No. 15 ‘Homage to Mozart’ (for Large Orchestra)
Composer: Gloria Coates
Performers: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra; Michael Boder, conductor
Recording Title: Symphony No. 15 / Cantata da Requiem / Transitions
Record Label: Naxos
Catalog Number: 8.559371
Title: Alef Bet Gimel Shofar, Shin Far Shofar 1
Composer: Alvin Curran
Performer: Alvin Curran, shofar
Recording Title: Shofar Rags
Record Label: Tzadik
Catalog Number: TZ 8176
Title: Shofar Der Zeit
Composer: Alvin Curran
Performers: Alvin Curran, shofar; Arnold Dreyblatt, accordion; Michael Reissler, soprano clarinet
Recording Title: Shofar Rags
Record Label: Tzadik
Catalog Number: TZ 8176
Title: Peace Dances
Composer: Frederic Rzewski
Performer: Sarah Cahill
Recording Title: A Sweeter Music
Record Label: Other Minds Records
Catalog Number: OM 1022-2
Title: Vim
Composer: Carl Stone
Recording Title: Carl Stone Electronic Music from 1972–2022
Record Label: Unseen Worlds
Catalog Number: UW061LP
