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- Monday, January 5, 2009
Nonesuch Artists Continue to Draw Year-End Accolades
Since the last Nonesuch Journal entry of 2008, which laid out scores of year-end best-of lists featuring Nonesuch albums and artists, still more critical praise has come in placing this music among the year's best.
- Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Nonesuch Albums Abound in Year-End Best Lists
While 2008 may go down as one of the more turbulent years in recent (or distant) memory, or, more optimistically, a time of change, there is much to celebrate in the year in music. Nonesuch artists across all genres have contributed to that and, accordingly, have made their way onto many critics' lists of the year's best. For the final Nonesuch Journal article of the year, we offer an overview of just some of that year-end critical praise.
About this Album
Allen Ginserg serves as narrator and librettist for this 1990 music/theatre collaboration, an impressionistic portrait of America. The Washington Post says, "Glass generates a focused emotional intensity ... but does not let the music get in the way of the agonizingly eloquent words."
Credits
MUSICIANS
Martin Goldray, conductor, keyboards
Carol Wincenc, flute
Andrew Sterman, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet
Frank Cassara, James Pugliese, percussion
Richard Peck, tenor saxophone (7)
Vocal Ensemble:
Elizabeth Futral, Michele Eaton, soprano
Mary Ann Hart, mezzo-soprano
Richard Fracker, tenor
Gregory Purnhagen, Nathaniel Watson, baritone
Allen Ginsberg, narrator
Philip Glass, piano
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Kurt Munkacsi and Michael Reisman
Recorded 1992-1993 at The Looking Glass Studios, NYC
Engineers: Laura Fried, Anne Pope
Assistants: Dante de Sole, Skoti Elliott, James Law
Mixed at The Looking Glass Studios by Michael Reisman
Synthesizer programming by Miles Green and Martin Goldray
Music by Philip Glass, libretto by Allen Ginsberg
Design by James Victore Design Works
Cover photograph: Santa Fe, New Mexico 1955/56, by Robert Frank

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