Global A Go-Go presents:
Andy McGraw from the University of Richmond joins me this week to discuss a fascinating concert he’s involved in next Wednesday at U of R’s Camp Concert Hall.
Andy’s group Gamelan Raga Kusuma and the Richmond Symphony will team up under the direction of Indonesian master musicians Sumarsam and Darsono to premiere a reconstruction of the Javanese music that Claude Debussy heard at the 1889 Paris Universal Exposition. The ideas Debussy got from gamelan music — cyclicality, stasis, new ways of using counterpoint, and the unique harmonies of Java — became key elements of his compositions and, through him, were integrated into 20th and 21st century Western classical music.
Andy and I will talk about the concert, about Debussy and gamelan, and we’ll listen to some related recordings, possibly even transcriptions of 1889 wax cylinders.
Also this week: Bassekou Kouyate’s new album, a wide variety of Latin American sounds from Andean pipes to Mexican banda, and some socially conscious klezmer.
Podcast: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/100959
All the podcasts: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Global+A+Go-Go
Kyai Pengawe Sari, “Ketawang: Puspawarna”
Nonesuch Explorer - 1971
Indonesia
Zoltan Kocsis, Ivan Fischer & Budapest Festival Orchestra, “Debussy - Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra, Andante Ma No Troppo-Allegro Giusto”
from Debussy: Solo Piano Music; Fantaisie; Ravel: Piano Concertos
Philips - 2006
Hungary-France
Unknown, “archive recording of gamelan from the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition”
from cylinder recording transcribed to digital
Field Museum of Natural History
Indonesia, 1893
Seni Sunda Langen Sari, “Kembang Gadung (Ketuk Tilu Karawang)”
from Oyong-Oyong Bangkong
iCiH Music Cassette
Indonesia, 1970's
Rumput & Friends Present Shadow Ballads, “I Fell In Love When You Parted”
WRIR - 2016
RVA USA-Indonesia
Puerto Candelaria, “Una Eterna Primavera”
from Colombia: Land Of Sabrosura
Colombia.Travel - 2019
Colombia
Marco Flores Y La Jerez, “Huapango El Pistolero”
from Huapango El Pistolero - single
Casa Nacional - 2018
Mexico
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird, “The Butcher's Sher”
from The Butcher's Share
Oriente - 2018
USA-Germany
Geoff Berner, “Thank You, No Thank You”
from We Are Going to Bremen to Be Musicians
Oriente - 2015
Canada
Bill Lupoletti Global A Go-Go January 16th, 2019
Posted In: Music Shows