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Reliquary
Geoffrey Burleson, piano
Barbara White, composer
Small World
Larry Passin, clarinet
Nancy Zeltsman, marimba
Barbara White, composer Chansons d'Amour
Joanna Kurkowicz, Joseph Lin, violins
Barbara White, composer
Learning to See
New Millennium Ensemble
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An exciting recording of music by a very interesting compositional voice.
Composer Barbara White was born in Boston and was educated at Harvard/Radcliffe Colleges and the University of Pittsburgh. She is currently a faculty member at Princeton University, and she spent a recent sabbatical year as a Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She writes: "Apocryphal Studies is a sonic scrapbook of sorts, a compilation and documentation of my musical memories. Anyone who has ever been haunted by a fragment of a melody knows how enduring such memories can be; yet by the time we hear a sound, it has already begun to decay. In assembling my memories into new work, I play in the field between these apparent extremes: ever presence and impermanence. Musical reminiscences are simultaneously lasting and ephemeral, palpable and immaterial, indelible and fleeting. The marriage of persistence and elusiveness recalls other familiar paradoxes, for musical fictions are untruths we choose to believe - lies that, like an apocryphal story, contain an element of psychic, if not literal, truth. The four works on this recording embrace pre-existing music, in ways that range from veiled allusion to explicit paraphrase to willful mutilation."Contents:
Barbara White, composerReliquary
Geoffrey Burleson, piano
Barbara White, composer
Small World
Larry Passin, clarinet
Nancy Zeltsman, marimba
Barbara White, composer Chansons d'Amour
Joanna Kurkowicz, Joseph Lin, violins
Barbara White, composer
Learning to See
New Millennium Ensemble