Every Friday, Performance Today features 21st century music. This week, it's a co-creation of composer Robert Kapilow and a voice you may recognize: Fred Newman does vocal sound effects on A Prairie Home Companion. Their new choral work is "Crosstown M42," named after a bus line in New York City. Fred Newman vocalizes New York sound effects, with supporting vocal effects (and even some singing!) from the Young People's Chorus of New York City.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Peter Tchaikovsky: Suite for Orchestra No. 3 in G major, Op. 55 III. Scherzo
Radio Symphony of Stuttgart; Sir Neville Marriner
Peter Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Julian Rachlin, violin; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Kirill Karabits, conductor
BBC Proms 2009, Royal Albert Hall, London, England
Hour 2
W. A. Mozart: Symphony in C major, K35
The Academy of Ancient Music; Jaap Schroder, concertmaster; Christopher Hogwood, continuo
Dmitri Shostakovich: Waltz from Jazz Suite No/1
Jan Vogler, cello, the Knights, Eric Jacobsen, conductor
Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY
Rob Kapilow/ Fred Newman: Crosstown M42
Young People's Chorus of NYC
Greene Space, WNYC New York New York
Henry Purcell: Excerpts from a Suite in D
Academy of Ancient Music; Richard Egarr, conductor
BBC Proms 2009, Cadogan Hall, London, England
Henry Purcell: Evening Hymn
Iestyn Davies, countertenor; Academy of Ancient Music/Egarr
George Frideric Handel: Water Music, Suite No. 2 in D
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Roger Norrington
BBC Proms 2009, Royal Albert Hall, London, England
Frederic Chopin: Mazurka No. 2 in C major, Opus 24
Simon Trpceski, piano
BBC Proms 2009, Cadogan Hall, London
Jacques Ibert: Baccanale
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Vladimir Jurowski, cond.
BBC Proms 2009, Royal Albert Hall, London, England
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