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Episode 68 – Stacy Garrop / Terra Nostra
On this episode of Classical Chicago, Cedille President Jim Ginsburg talks with celebrated composer Stacy Garrop about her experience composing and recording Cedille’s latest release, Terra Nostra. The multifarious text weaves together creation myths from India, North America, and Egypt, excerpts from the Bible’s Old Testament, classic poetry from Walt Whitman, Lord Byron, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and contemporary writings by Esther Iverem and Wendell Berry, among others.
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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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