Lister - Faith-Based Initiatives
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Label: Metier
Cat No: MSV28618
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 7th October 2022
Contents
Artists
Charles Blandy (tenor)Jonah Sirota (viola)
Chiara Quartet
Collage New Music
Conductor
David HooseWorks
Complicated GriefFaith-Based Initiative
Friendly Fire
Artists
Charles Blandy (tenor)Jonah Sirota (viola)
Chiara Quartet
Collage New Music
Conductor
David HooseAbout
Rodney Lister is a composer based in New England. His biography is impressive and features commissions from the US Library of Congress and many leading ensembles, and a wealth of compositions, articles and other writings. He is currently teaching at Boston University and the New England Conservatory as well as tutoring duties at Harvard; he also works with the Greenwood Music Camp in Massachusetts.
This album offers a view of a composer whose output is both lyrical and abstract, with a poetic command of foreground and background, consonance and dissonance. Often, the core of the work is a borrowed or found fragment, in particular American hymn tunes. The melodies become locations of stability but subject to subtle and sometimes unsettling modifications.
NOTE: One of the poems included in Friendly Fire (‘For the Union Dead’ by Robert Lowell) contains a racial epithet considered unacceptable in day to day speech and writing today. It is retained because of its historical and social context in a poem which is strongly anti-racist and is a cry against the injustice meted out to African-American troops fighting for the Union in the American Civil War. The poem itself is regarded as a classic of modern literature, appreciated by commentators of all ethnicities.
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