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Exploring folk music inspirations

Extra Eclectic - July 05, 2023

Folk music inspires the theme for this week’s Extra Eclectic. Host Steve Seel features several works influenced by bluegrass and other folk idioms. In the program’s first hour, we hear Jennifer Higdon's Concerto 4-3, a bluegrass-laced composition written primarily for the group Time for Three. Then Jessie Montgomery's Strum calls upon the string players to do just that with their violins and cellos. The group the Hands Free plays its own Celtic-folk-inspired tunes. In the program's second hour, we hear Philip Glass' immense Symphony No. 11, which premiered on the composer's 80th birthday in 2017.

Episode playlist

Kellam's Reel/Rusty Gully
Nathan Koci/James Moore/Eleonore Oppenheim/Caroline Shaw
The Hands Free
The Hands Free
4:26

Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 10
Henry Cowell
Cowell: Concerto Grosso/Hymn & Fuguing Tune No 10
Manhattan Chamber Orchestra
Richard Auldon Clark, conductor
Humbert Lucarelli, oboe
9:20

Concerto 4-3
Jennifer Higdon
Time for Three: Letters for the Future
Philadelphia Orchestra
Xian Zhang, conductor
22:59

Hallelujah Junction
John Adams
Visions
Christina and Michelle Naughton, piano duo
14:19

Duo for Flute and Piano: 2nd movement
Laura Kaminsky
The Way Things Go
Tara Helen O'Connor, flute
4:33

Strum
Jessie Montgomery
Strum: Music for Strings
Catalyst Quartet
6:52

Symphony No. 11
Philip Glass
Contemporary American Composers
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor
39:11

Hymns for Private Use: Sleep
Nico Muhly
Hymns for Private Use
Akropolis Reed Quintet
Shara Nova, vocals
2:29

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