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hour one: "naima" (live at juan les pins, antibes, july 27, 1965) john coltrane "summer without waves" mike cooper "new gamelan" mike cooper "just beyond the door 2 - gtr sqzn" bomis prendin "ah!" vermes do limbo "fall and decline - I. but after six years" gregory w. brown "bird flight" (part 3 of 3) chris gregory "worry" samuel locke ward "we shall not speak of this again" northern jaw "molly put the kettle on" up around the sun "age unlimited" mike cooper hour two: "guayaquil to ballina" mike cooper "forfeiture" ben salter "guitarludes" al margolis "malama honua (to care for our earth)" mike cooper "induction seduction production" mike cooper/elliott sharp "the memory is a muscle" bootstrappers "blind willie" sunwatchers "glaucus atlanticus" pet bottle ningen "telegeoneoprotodynamics" mike cooper/elliott sharp hour three: "aquatecture" mike cooper "thollem/berger 1" thollem's astral traveling sessions "baarish ke baad (sri lanka after rain)" mike cooper "the drowned world (jalan batu after rain)" mike cooper "ballroom psych" headboggle "la malvarrosa" mike cooper
1. Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s In the Light of Air:https://open.spotify.com/user/yd3pvj6u9lur21sni8znarqmh/playlist/22MsIEjWfcXFJQrrESB745?si=eLm5qw_YRF6qbU_haMHawg2. Gregory W. Brown’s Missa Charles Darwin:https://open.spotify.com/album/7fSXwqsyBjRmreve9R6dwr?si=u7xKb6KxQJaeJa2wfS4Bwg3. Enno Poppe’s Keilschrift:https://open.spotify.com/track/7va4X4tNwmThivQeBCHKg4?si=1HY70FFgQum9oyUQzypcCgYou can listen to these before or after the episode, or you can pause our podcast and go listen to each piece as we introduce them. Panelists:Richard Drehoff Jr. is a composer and pianist interested in creating works that explore a level of intimacy between performers and audiences. His music strives to manipulate our perceptions of time to develop a unique psychological affect for each piece, often juxtaposing the most fragile of sounds with obtrusive and harsh sonorities. Richard is the Co-Director of earspace, a North Carolina-based ensemble dedicated to the cultivation of invigorating and immersive performances of contemporary compositions, often featuring collaborations with video and mixed media artists. His works have been performed by earspace, the Mivos Quartet, the ECCE Ensemble, among others. He brought Enno Poppe’s Keilschrift.Dorothy Couper, viola, was graduated from New England Conservatory and Tufts University with a dual degree in Viola Performance and English Literature and from Peabody Conservatory with a Graduate Performance Diploma in Viola Performance. As a freelance orchestral musician, Ms. Couper plays with the Amadeus Orchestra, the Apollo Orchestra, the Delaware Symphony, the Maryland Symphony, and the National Philharmonic, among others. Dorothy is also an active member of the D.C. Musicians’ Union. As a chamber musician, Dorothy is a founding member of the Laurel Quartet, and was also a founding member of the Syrinx Ensemble while studying in Boston. She has also been a regular collaborator with Classical Revolution Baltimore and has been a guest artist with the Evolution Concert Series, the Edwin Trio, the HexaCollective, and the Iris Quartet. She brought in Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s In the Light of Air.Henry S. Gibbons, microbiologist by day and baritone by night, currently serves as the Bass section leader of the Handel Choir of Baltimore. Previously, while in North Carolina, he created the role of Malvolio in the world premiere of Joel Feigin’s Twelfth Night with Long Leaf Opera. Other operatic roles included Antonio in Hoiby’s The Tempest, and Balthazar in Amahl and the Night Visitors, and Bogdanowitsch in The Merry Widow with the Opera Company of North Carolina. He also performs oratorio and soloist roles, including Brahms’ Deutsches Requiem and numerous Bach cantatas, among others. He currently serves as a Research Microbiologist and principal investigator at the US Army’s Chemical Biological Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. He brought in Gregory W. Brown’s Missa Charles Darwin.More information at pauseandlisten.com. Pause and Listen was created by host John T.K. Scherch and co-creator/marketing manager Michele Mengel Scherch.
Composer Gregory W. Brown and I talk about his 1 Track un/bodying/s for choir.
The blockbuster 2003 thriller The Da Vinci Code launched Dan Brown into the best-selling stratosphere. More than 200 million copies of his books have sold worldwide since. Three of his novels have been made into films starring tom hanks as fictional Harvard professor Robert Langdon. Brown is a disciplined writer, rising at 4am to a breakfast smoothie and "bulletproof" coffee, writing every day, and throwing himself into his research. He spent four years researching Origin, his latest novel, which again thrusts Langdon into a 24-hour scavenger hunt for keys, codes and symbols in spectacular European locations. The breathless action drives bigger questions about faith, conspiracies, and organized religion. The question of whether contemporary notions of god can withstand scientific scrutiny is at the heart of Origin. We caught up with him just before discussing the book at The Music Hall in Portsmouth for Writers on a New England Stage. Music in this episode by Gregory W. Brown, used with permission by PARMA Recordings, and Podington Bear.
After a long winter, spring is a miracle that comes at you fast. This time Sophie and Fannie turn their heads towards the trees to investigate the natural laws that govern not just trees, but people, animals, and even the universe. We take a walk around Martha Stewart's farm with her long-time arborist Ralph Robbins of SavATree, and get a lesson in the Fibonacci sequence from Gregory W. Brown. Plus, we sit down with Kodomo, our frequent music-collaborator, to hear how the golden ratio found its way into his songs. Then we visit the Shanti Bithi Nursery in Stamford, Connecticut to see how the Rocherolle family carries on the ancient art of Bonsai.