Meridian Arts Ensemble

Brass Ensemble

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Brink

Brink


Didkovsky:

Slim in Beaten Dreamers

Sanford:

CORPUS

Sharp:

Beyond The Curve


Meridian Arts Ensemble

On this disc, we present three commissioned pieces, each of which we hope will become a major contribution to the literature. For a long time, we have wanted to design concert programs with just a few large scale works, each of which developed its ideas fully. Now the repertoire is growing, and we are on the brink of something new. All three of these pieces draw on various styles of music available to today?s listener, from free improvisation in a densely notated art-rock setting to evocations of African vocal polyphony, from oblique references to 1970?s television themes to the rhythms and intonations of a sermonizing preacher. Yet each piece creates its own unique style and language. We recorded this CD in the Doopsgezinde Kerk in the town square of Deventer, Holland, in a large pedestrian plaza referred to locally as BRINK.

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Meridian Arts Ensemble - Timbrando

Meridian Arts Ensemble - Timbrando


1] Ocho por Radio Silvestre Revueltas, arr. Jon Nelson

2] Oblivion Astor Piazzolla, arr. Raymond Stewart

3] Caballito Nicoyano, Traditional Costa-Rican, arr. Jon Nelson

4] Michelangelo Antonioni Caetano Veloso, arr. by Jaques Morelenbaum,

5] Echo-Dimensions by Dafnis Prieto

6] Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, Aria (Cantilena) Heitor Villa-Lobos

7] Saoko by Tania Leon

8] Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1, Heitor Villa-Lobos, arr. Raymond Stewart

9] En par de los levantes de la aurora by Ana Lara

10] Timbrando Hermeto Pascoal

11] Um a Zero Pixinguinha and Benedito Lacerda, arr. Raymond Stewart


Meridian Arts Ensemble

This is our ninth CD, and it is being released in the year of our twentieth anniversary. The CD is a travelogue of sorts, containing music we picked up on tour around Latin and South America and in the US. Several of the pieces on this disc were commissioned for our visit to the Subtropics Festival in Miami – a city that is a great crossroads of Latin culture – in 1997. Other pieces we collected in foreign places or from friends we made in those places. We have brought all this music to our home base, New York, another cross-cultural gathering place. And now to listeners wherever they may be. Timbrando is Portuguese for ‘making a tone’ or ‘sounding’ (it is related to the word ‘timbre’).

“Superb virtuosos” - Fanfare

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Ear Mind 1

Ear Mind 1


Brecker:

Some Skunk Funk

Burgstaller:

Dr. J Geyser

Lullaby

Ferrari, J:

MAE We Strut?

Crunch

Forsythe:

Sanctity

Nelson, J:

Fanfare for Nothing

Sleepless

Pierson, T:

Brass Quintet

Commissioned for the Meridian Arts Ensemble by Chamber Music America with funds from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Tan, S:

Moo Shu Wrap Rap

Guest rapper: Su Lian Tan

Zappa:

Lumpy Gravy

Marqueson's Chicken

King Kong

Pygmy Twylyte

Hungry Freaks Daddy

The Black Page


Meridian Arts Ensemble (brass quintet)

Ear, Mind, I Our seventh CD is a seeming hodge-podge with a logic behind it that makes perfect sense to us. How do we choose our music? Through the interaction of the ear, the mind, and the “I” - the personal response the music evokes in us. Through the eleven years of our existence, we have all gotten more involved with composing, and this disc contains works by band members Jon Nelson, John Ferrari, and Josef Burgstaller.

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