Music

Two Preludes & Fugues

Composed by: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Adapted by: Felix Salazar

As he did at the end of each of his cantatas, Bach marked the Well-Tempered Clavier with the postscript S.D.G., which stands for “Soli Deo Gloria,” Latin for “Glory to God alone.&... listen »

Armour Square Vespers & Ill Tempered Lancaran

Composed by: Nathaniel Braddock (b.1971)

These two pieces reference, directly and indirectly, traditional Indonesian music. The prelude, "Armour Square Vespers," is wash of microtonal chords drawn from the Javanese pelog tuning.... listen »

Three Javanese Songs

Composed by: Charles T. Griffes (1884-1920)
Arranged by: Felix Salazar

Charles T. Griffes was an American pianist and composer trained in the German Romantic style, yet strongly influenced by French Impressionism. In 1917, his gift for song cycles and interest in &quo... listen »

The Fog

Composed by: Jonathan Guillen (b.1979)

Written for Los Angeles Electric 8, "The Fog" is a mysterious cloud through which phrases emerge and fade away. It employs aleatoric techniques, using random procedures in the generation... read more »

The Perilous Chapel

Composed by: Lou Harrison (1917-2003)
Adapted by: Felix Salazar

Lou Harrison’s The Perilous Chapel (1948) – an accompaniment for a dance production written for harp, cello, and flute – was described by choreographer Jean Erdman as “a psy... read more »

Gending

Composed by: Lou Harrison (1917-2003)
Adapted by: Felix Salazar

“Gending” is taken from the suite Varied Trio for violin, piano, and percussion (1987). It is the product of Harrison’s impassioned study of Javanese compositional form. While he... read more »

Implosion

Composed by: Mantle Hood (1918-2005)
Adapted by: Felix Salazar

Mantle Hood was a renowned ethnomusicologist who studied most of the great musical traditions of the world. Before turning his life's work to pioneering ethnomusicology, Hood studied compositio... read more »

Ladrang Siyem

Composed by: Traditional Javanese
Adapted by: Ben Harbert

In a feat of musical globe-trotting, "Ladrang Siyem" is a 1929 adaptation of a Western-influenced Thai tune – "Sanrasoen Phra Barami" – that has been reclaimed on el... read more »

96 Tears

Composed by: Phil Kline (b.1953)

Originally for electric guitar octet, Phil Kline's imitation of 17th Century viol consort music produces long tones and unexpected harmonies, slowly developing and then slowly unravelling over... listen »

Suite Mundial

Composed by: Randall Kohl (b.1960)
Adapted by: Ben Harbert, Felix Salazar

"Balinesa: El canto de los changos" and "Javanesa: Danza dorada del gamelán" are two short movements from Randall C. Kohl’s Suite Mundial. Both pieces are influence... listen »