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Ode To Gravity:
The Music of Shulamit Ran |
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| Item Type: Sound Recording |
Duration: 135 min |
| Event Type: Interview and Music |
Program Origin: KPFA |
Charles Amirkhanian interviews the Israeli composer Shulamit Ran. Ran studied as a pianist and composer with Paul Ben-Haim from 1960 to 1963 and then at the Mannes College of Music in New York from 1963 to 1967 . This recording, which features a number of chamber works and art songs by Ran, was made on February 27, 1981 in Chicago, where Ran was then currently teaching at the University of Chicago. |
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| Musical Selections: |
Apprehensions [text by Sylvia Plath] (1979) / Shulamit Ran -- Three Fantasy Pieces, for cello and piano (1972) / Shulamit Ran |
| Performers: |
Judith Nicosia, soprano (Apprehensions)
Laura Flax, clarinet (Apprehensions)
Alan Feinberg, piano (Apprehensions)
Barbara Hafner, cello (Fantasy)
Lambert Orkis, piano (Fantasy) |
| Genres: |
Chamber Music; Art Songs |
| Subject: |
Ran, Shulamit, 1949-; Art songs; Chamber music; Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble; Violoncello and piano music; Jewish composers |
| People: |
Amirkhanian, Charles; Ran, Shulamit, 1949-; Plath, Sylvia; Nicosia, Judith; Flax, Laura; Feinberg, Alan |
| Recording Date: |
2/27/1981 |
| First Broadcast Date: |
8/17/1981 |
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| Musical Selections: |
O The Chimneys [text by Nelly Sachs] (1969) -- Hertz Israel Eulogy (1969) -- For an Actor, monologue for clarinet (1978) -- Double Vision [excerpt] (1976) |
| Performers: |
New York Philomusica Ensemble (Chimneys)
Shulamit Ran, piano (Chimneys ; Double)
Gloria Davy,mezzo-soprano (Chimneys)
A. Robert Johnson, conductor (Chimneys)
Dal Segno Ensemble (Hertz)
Stanley Hoffman, violin (Hertz)
Susan Reid-Parsons, mezzo-soprano (Hertz)
Laura Flax, clarinet (Actor) |
| Genres: |
Chamber Music; Art Songs |
| Subject: |
Ran, Shulamit, 1949-; Jewish composers; Chamber music; Art songs; Songs (Medium voice) with instrumental ensemble; Clarinet music; Piano with instrumental ensemble |
| People: |
Amirkhanian, Charles; Ran, Shulamit, 1949-; Davy, Gloria; Johnson, A. Robert; Sachs, Nelly |
| Recording Date: |
2/27/1981 |
| First Broadcast Date: |
8/17/1981 |
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