WFMU: A440 / Stochastic Hit Parade with Bethany Ryker: Playlist from January 23, 2005

A440 / Stochastic Hit Parade with Bethany Ryker: Playlist from January 23, 2005

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January 23, 2005: Sweden, Hungary, Denmark & The Netherlands in the 70s: a stochastic goldmine

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Comments
Paul Lansky	Countdown "Countdown" by "Paul Lansky"	Alphabet Book	Bridge
Irene Moon & Friends	For the Neonate / De Mo	For the Neonate	Bogonia Society
Music behind DJ: Raymond Scott	Waltz of the Diddles	The Unexpected	Basta
Robert Heppener	Muziek voor Straten en Pleinen (1970)	Robert Heppener / Rudolf Escher	Composers' [sic] Voice (8202)	trans. "Music for Streets and Squares"
Alan Hovhaness (b. 1911)	Symphony of Metal Instruments, Op. 203, mvts. 3 & 4	Symphony of Metal Instruments	Koch Int'l Classics
Charles Koechlin	Les Bandar-Log, Op. 176	Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Series No. 12: Koechlin / Boulez / Messiaen		composer's note: The Bandar Log is the name given by Kipling to the jungle monkeys in “The Jungle Book”. At the start of Les Bandar-Log the calm of a luminous morning is suddenly shattered by the monkeys. Their squalling is grotesque—yet their gambols are supple and gracious. As we know from Kipling, monkeys are at once the most vain and the most insignificant of creatures. They believe themselves to be creative geniuses, but in reality they are only vulgar mimics, whose sole aim is to follow the fashion of the day. The monkeys in this symphonic poem use various procedures of “modern harmony” (but use them badly). First, consecutive fifths and ninths in the manner of Debussy—interspersed, however, with gambolling figures which remain musical and harmonious. Then they arrive at ‘atonal music,’ eager to follow the 12-note method of Schoenberg and his disciples. But here the whole forest begins to sing with them, with the result that their atonality becomes musical and almost lyrical. This expressive evolution annoys the monkeys. They want to ‘remain classical’ ; and so they make an artificial and ridiculous pseudo-return to Bach. This, then, is a hard and factitious polytonality, on the theme “J’ai du bon tabac.” It is followed by a chromatic fugue in which the subject and counter-subject rival one-another in folly. But once again the forest intervenes, takes command, and with a new exposition of the subject, transforms the fugue into real music. The monkeys return (passages for solo percussion) and amid a general hubbub take up their ‘back to Bach’ theme. But suddenly their lucubrations are interrupted by the arrival of the Lords of the Jungle—Barloo, Bagheera, and the serpent Kaa. The awesome bugle-calls put the monkeys to flight, and the jungle returns at last to the luminous calm in which the symphonic poem began; when the jungle sings, it is a genuine homage to the polytonal or atonal language.
Music behind DJ: Chris Brown	"Chris Brown"
Thomas Jennefelt	Warning to the Rich	Swedish Choral Music from the 1970s, Vol. I	Caprice	Come on, you wealthy weep and cry about the miseries that are coming upon you. Your hoarded wealth has decayed and your clothers have become moth-eaten Your gold and silver are covered with rust, and the rust shall be evidence against you and as fire it will consume your flesh. (the damnation continues...) Epistle of St. James 5:1-6, 4:9
Hans-Henrik NORDSTRØM (b. 1947)	Fantasia Fyrir Bassaflautu (1998)	Hans-Henrik NORDSTRØM 3	Classico	Fantasy for Bass Flute, performed by Kolbeinn Bjarnason
Sven-David Sandström	A Cradle Song / Tyger Tyger (1979)	Swedish Choral Music from the 1970s, Vol. I	Caprice	a simultaneous setting of the above two William Blake poems

Diderik Wagenaar	Liederen (1976) "Liederen (1976)" by "Diderik Wagenaar"	Netherlands Winds Ensemble	Composers' [sic] Voice (7804)	"Songs" for metal wind instruments, 2 pianos and double bass.
Joseph Schwamtner	...and the mountains rising nowhere	(Various) Howard Hanson: Young Composer's Guide to the Six Tone Scale	Mercury	performed by the Eastman Wind Ensemble, directed by Donald Hunsberger
Miguel Frasconi	Solo 2 "Solo 2" by "Miguel Frasconi"	Live from WFMU
L	Cold Was the Ground "Cold Was the Ground" by "L"	Holy Letters	VHF

Erzebet Szonyi (b. 1924)	Five Preludes	Radnoti Cantata / Chamber Works	Hungaroton
Sáry László (b. 1940)	Prelude for Four Keyboard Instruments	Flowers of Heaven	Hungaroton	Interesting compositiotion here's what they say: ...the performer is left almost completely to himself to select the actual pitch levels...the four parts play their notes, motifs consisting of two, three and four notes. The direction of these motifs is always identical: the four note motifs proceed upwards, while the two and three note motifs motve downward...

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