Pam Marshall's notes about composing music, teaching, improvising, music software, nature

Category: Listening

Music I enjoy. I don’t generally write about music I don’t like.

  • Listening: Rimkus, Rotaru

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    PamelaM

    Composer/bassoonist Brin Solomon’s blog reveals a lot of music that is new to me in their Music Monday posts. Taking Brin’s recommendation, I listened to Sarah Rimkus’s MacLeod Road for orchestra, a beautiful work with passages that shimmer with vibraphone bells. Brin’s review of the piece describes the music very well. (Update Jan-2020: the soundcloud track…

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    European robin singing

  • Listening: Ran, Jolas, Tower, Chen Yi

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    PamelaM

    A whole disc of solo clarinet seems like a lot of just one flavor, but I found the pieces varied and delightful. I was drawn to it because I was looking for music by Betsy Jolas, with whom I studied a long time ago at Yale.

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    European robin singing

  • Listening: Larsen, Auerbach, Klockar

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    PamelaM

    I’ve listened to several tracks from the marvellous CD by Allmanna Sangen, an adventurous chorus from Uppsala, Sweden.

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    European robin singing

  • Listening: Gubaidulina

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    PamelaM

    Listening: Sofia Gubaidulina: Raduysya (Rejoice)

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    European robin singing

  • Listening: Zwilich

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    PamelaM

    Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Symphony No. 2, “Cello”played by the Louisville Orchestra, conducted by Lawrence Leighton Smith on First Edition Heard via Naxos Music Library (Naxos ID FECD-0004)

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    European robin singing