Feminine Fusion

S08 Ep31: Looking Home, Part 4

US Compass

“I love the way some music suddenly takes you to the other side of Alice’s looking glass, in a kind of absurd, subtle, technicolor transition.”  – Caroline Shaw

 

We bring our global trek to a close with music from home.  Enjoy these works from women from the U.S.

“Looking Home, Part 4”

 

Jennifer Higdon:  Sky Rising
Palisade Trumpet Collective
“Sojurn”
Mark Records 57041

Jessie Montgomery:  Soul Force
New York Youth Symphony; Mark Repper, conductor
“Works by Florence Price, Valerie Coleman, and Jessie Montgomery”
Avie 2503

Valerie Coleman:  Umoja: Anthem of Unity
New York Youth Symphony; Mark Repper, conductor
“Works by Florence Price, Valerie Coleman, and Jessie Montgomery”
Avie 2503

Julia Wolfe:  Oxygen
Jennifer Grim, flutes
“Through Broken Time”
New Focus Recordings 346

Caroline Shaw: Entr’acte
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne: Joshua Weilerstein, conductor
“American and English Orchestral Music”
Claves 3091

 

 

Run time:  58:30

Feminine Fusion highlights the roles of women in classical music. Host Diane Jones brings you stories and music of the women who create, perform, and inspire. Produced in the studios at WCNY-FM.

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