Research Catalog

Title

Records from a vanishing city : for orchestra / Jessie Montgomery.

Author

Montgomery, Jessie

Publication

• [New York] : Jessie Montgomery Music Publishing, [2017]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, commissioning body.

Description

1 score (60 pages); 43 cm

Summary

"Records from a vanishing city is a tone poem based on my own recollection of the music that surrounded me growing up on Manhattan's Lower East Side in the 80s and 90s. Artists, truth seekers and cultures of all kinds defined our vibrant community. The embracing diversity burst out with an effortless everydayness in block parties, festivals, and shin-digs of every sort. Partly because my parents were artists but also because I just couldn't help it I soaked up what surrounded me: Latin jazz, alternative rock, Western classical, avant-garde jazz, poetry, Caribbean dance music, to name a few. A year before completing this work, a very dear family friend passed away and it was decided that I would be the one to inherit a large portion of his ecclectic record collection. James Rose was one of the many suns in the Lower East Side cosmos who often hosted parties and generous gatherings for our extended artist famiy. His record collection was a treasure trove of the great jazz recordings of the 50s, 60s and beyond--he was mad for John Coltrane, but also Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, and-and-and--as well as traditional folk artists from Africa, Asia and South America. In the process of imagining the music for tonight's concert, a specific track on a record of music from Angola caught my ear: a traditional lullaby which is sung in call and response by a women's chorus. This lullaby rang with an uncanny familiarity in me. An adaptation of this lullaby and the rhythmic chant that follows it appears in each of the three main sections of Records. This piece is dedicated to the memory of James Rose"--Composer's website, accessed 3/10/2020.

Subject

• Symphonic poems > Scores
• Orchestral music > Scores

Genre/Form

• Scores.
• Symphonic poems.
• Orchestral music.

Note

• In one movement.
• Commissioned by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
• Duration: approximately 13 min.
• With program notes in English.

Call Number

JMH 24-76

OCLC

1081322585

Author

Montgomery, Jessie, composer.

Title

Records from a vanishing city : for orchestra / Jessie Montgomery.

Publisher

[New York] : Jessie Montgomery Music Publishing, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2016

Edition

Score.

Rev. 2017-11-21.

Playing Time

001300

Type of Content

notated music

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

Staff notation.

Added Author

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, commissioning body.

Research Call Number

JMH 24-76