Elena Ruehr’s CD, including The Law of Floating Objects
Islands and dances and flutes seem to float on Now Is the Time, Saturday, July 19th at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. Haiku of Basho inspire Edie Hill’s This Floating World for solo flute; Elena Ruehr’s The Law of Floating Objects is for one flutist multiplied many times. An excerpt from A Floating Island is Matthew Greenbaum’s chamber opera on an episode from Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, where some are so lost in thought they don’t see what’s right in front of them.
The Habanera makes us think of Cuba and islands (okay, it’s a stretch), and we find one in 5 Pages from John’s Book of Alleged Dances by John Adams. Robert Ackerman improvises Havana Special, clarinet and bass, and there’s just enough time for an Ackerman encore, Scena.
from Robert Ackerman: Scena
PROGRAM:
Edie Hill: This Floating World
John Adams: 5 Pages from John’s Book of Alleged Dances
Matthew Greenbaum: from A Floating Island
Robert Ackerman: Havana Special
Elena Ruehr: The Law of Floating Objects
Robert Ackerman: Scena
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