PGM 778 "SOLOMBRA"

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   PGM 778 : "SOLOMBRA"
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   PGM NOTE : Janis Mattox' sublime song cyle of loss and remembrance
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   FEED DATE : 9-08-06             EPS ID NUMBER : 06-F87-72570
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   INTRO: We normally think of Brazil as an extroverted country
   that celebrates life's sensual pleasures, but there's also an
   introverted, contemplative side of Brazilian culture, beautifully
   expressed in the life and work of the poet CECELIA MEIRELES, 
   who died in 1964.
      In the poem SOLOMBRA or "Sunshadow," she created an intimate
   conversation between herself and the spirit of her beloved husband, 
   whose bouts with depression led him to suicide. The poem is a 
  "sorrow-song" of grief, loss, detachment, and remembrance.
  "Life goes away," she writes, "but the song remains."
      Northern California composer JANIS MATTOX has taken Cecelia
   Meireles' poems as the text for an elegant 7 movement song cycle
   for soprano, violin, cello, and piano. It was recorded in an intensely 
   lyrical live performance in 2005, featuring Bolivian soprano KATIA 
   ESCALERA. The entire piece is written in the natural harmonic 
   intervals of "just intonation," using a specially tuned and electron-
   ically enhanced piano created by the Good Sound Foundation.
      In over 20 years of Hearts of Space, we've only found a handful
   of pieces we felt deserved a program all to themselves. 
   This is one of them. 
      SOLOMBRA: the moving words of CECELIA MEIRELES, sung in 
   Portuguese, the sublime music of composer JANIS MATTOX...
   on this edition of HEARTS OF SPACE.

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 LOREN RUSH
  Mattina (Morning) (part) < 0:00->2:18 >
   : L'ALLEGRIA; Good Sound Foundation (?); 2006

 JANIS MATTOX
  Solombra (SunShadow):
  1. Apresentacao < 2:18->5:31 >
  2. Cancao < 5:31->8:09 >
  3a. Agua Densa do Sonho < 8:09->13:29 >
  3b. O Mar < 13:29->20:53 >
  3c. Ohlos Vertendo Melancolia < 20:53->26:37 >
  4. Fora da Vida < 26:37->29:27 >
  5. Inscricao na Areia < 29:27->37:39 >
  6. Morena, Pena de Amor < 37:39->49:54 >
  7. Desenho < 49:54->55:56 >
   : SOLOMBRA; SolombraMusic/Janis Mattox; 2006
   : Info: www.janismattox.com

 LOREN RUSH
  Mattina (Morning) (part) < 55:48->58:17 >
   : L'ALLEGRIA; unreleased (work in progress); Good Sound Foundation; 2006
   : Info: http://gsfpresents.tripod.com

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   PRODUCED BY : STEPHEN HILL
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   BAY AREA WEATHER : green and gold
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   (c) 2006 Hearts of Space
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