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Episode 46 – Andy Baker & Anthony Devroye / Leo Sowerby: The Paul Whiteman Commissions & Other Early Works
On this episode of Classical Chicago, trombonist-bandleader Andy Baker and Avalon String Quartet‘s Anthony Devroye join Cedille President Jim Ginsburg in conversation about their upcoming album.
Leo Sowerby: The Paul Whiteman Commissions & Other Early Works features two critically-acclaimed symphonic jazz works: Synconata and Symphony for Jazz Orchestra (“Monotony”). The album also features Sowerby chamber works created during the same period, including two world-premiere recordings of String Quartet in D minor and Tramping Tune. Listen to learn more about these engaging pieces through Baker and Devroye’s personal insight.
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Flutronix, the forward-thinking duo comprised of Nathalie Joachim and Allison Loggins-Hull, presents Black Being, a four-movement song cycle for flutes, electronics, and chamber orchestra that explores and reclaims the black female experience.
The Pacifica Quartet presents The Korngold Collection, a landmark recording of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s complete string quartets and rarely heard chamber works tracing the composer’s extraordinary evolution from prodigy of post-imperial Vienna to pioneering film composer in Hollywood
To celebrate Cedille’s release of Black Being, featuring a piece about Black Womanhood by Flutronix, the performing and composing duo of Nathalie Joachim and Allison Loggins-Hull, a playlist of works by Black women composers on Cedille. (We’ll add a track from the new album upon its 2/13 release.)
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