Harrison & Adams: Works for Harp, Guitar & Percussion Just Strings
Album info
Album-Release:
2015
HRA-Release:
11.11.2015
Label: MicroFest Records
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Artist: Just Strings
Composer: John Luther Adams (1953-), Lou Harrison (1917-2003)
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
- John Luther Adams (1953-): Five Athabascan Dances (1995)
- 1 No. 1. Grandpa Joe's Travelling Song 01:59
- 2 No. 2. They will all go 01:26
- 3 No. 3. Deenaadai' 03:23
- 4 No. 4. Grandpa Joe's Hunting Song 02:03
- 5 No. 5. Potlach Song of a Lonely Man 04:07
- Lou Harrison (1917-2003): Harp Suite #1
- 6 Jahla in the Form of a Ductia to Pleasure Leopold Stokowski on his 90th Birthday 01:55
- 7 Music for Bill and Me 05:04
- 8 Avalokiteshvara 02:10
- 9 Sonata in Ishartum 01:49
- 10 Serenado por Gitaro 02:04
- 11 Beverly's Troubadour Piece 01:36
- Lyric Phrases
- 12 Lyric Phrases 03:22
- Harp Suite #2
- 13 Little Gamelon (version for harp) 02:06
- 14 Palace Music 03:14
- 15 Little Homage to Eratosthenes 01:46
- 16 Threnody for Oliver Daniel 03:50
- Harp Suite #2: Three Dances from Faust
- 17 No. 1. — 01:24
- 18 No. 2. — 01:39
- 19 No. 3. — 02:14
- Adams: Five Yup´ik Dances (1995)
- 20 No. 1. Invitation to the Dance 01:58
- 21 No. 2. Jump Rope Song 02:07
- 22 No. 3. Shaman's Moon Song 01:50
- 23 No. 4. Juggling Song 02:08
- 24 No. 5. It Circles Me 02:03
- Harrison: In Honor of the Divine Mr. Handel (1991)
- 25 In Honor of the Divine Mr. Handel 06:28
Info for Harrison & Adams: Works for Harp, Guitar & Percussion
A side project of the Grammy winning Partch Ensemble, Just Strings is Alison Bjorkedal on harps, John Schneider on guitars, and T.J. Troy on percussion and this collection presents a collection featuring the works of West Coast based composers, the Pulitzer Prize winning John Luther Adams, and his mentor Lou Harrison, the iconoclastic composer who weaved elements of new music with global influences throughout his long career. This revealing collection presents complimentary aspects of both composers’ works as well as the particularly American-West Coast contemporary classical perspective that both worked from. With Alaskan indigenous dances transcribed to just intonation principles along with the charm of Harrison’s Harp Suites, found in Harrison’s notebooks after his 2003 death, and a homage to Handel scored for harp and gamelan.
“World-class tribute....Just Strings managed their exotic gadgetry with appealing skill....” (Alan Rich, LA Weekly)
“Just Strings performs with such elegance and élan as to put one's reservations quite beyond the pale... A delight, a treat, and, for those who care, an education (or a basis for debate).” (Fanfare)
Alison Bjorkedal, harp
John Schneider, guitars
T.J. Troy, percussion
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Booklet for Harrison & Adams: Works for Harp, Guitar & Percussion