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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album. Glass-mastered CD housed in a 4-panel digipak. Comes with a detailed 12-page booklet that includes the background to the performance and the two pieces, the program notes to the original MSO concert in 1996, and the text of the score.
Includes unlimited streaming of The Great Learning / Cornelius Cardew
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This release, on Tone Glow Records, is of the late British experimentalist Cornelius Cardew's The Great Learning as performed by the Montréal Scratch Orchestra, an ensemble I organized and led in 1996. The live performance, given at Redpath Hall at McGill University in Montréal and includes performances of Paragraph 1 and Paragraph 7.
As reviewed in The Wire "The clashing sonorities of the Montréal edition testify to Cardew's willingness to let the people have the final say." - Bill Meyer
Both the digital album and the CD come with a detailed 12-page booklet that includes the background to the performance and the two pieces, the program notes to the original MSO concert in 1996, and the text of the score.
This release is distributed via SoundOhm and Tone Glow Records, but is now available directly from me.
-Dean
credits
released May 7, 2021
The Montréal Scratch Orchestra: Mara Barrett, Dave Bennett, Philip Clarke, Jessica Werb, Sarah Davies, Eli Gedalof, Joe Hussney, Alex McKich, Daniel O'Connor, Lars Ro, Christopher Johannsen, Benjamin Rinehart, Dean Rosenthal, Ingrid Rudman
Conductor, producer: Dean Rosenthal
Organist: Philip Clarke
Recording Engineer: Joel Natanblut
Recorded live at Redpath Hall, McGill University, Montréal on March 8, 1996
Graphic Design: Ellen Nygaard
Executive Producer: Joshua Minsoo Kim
Thank you: Philip Clarke, Joshua Minsoo Kim, Tamara Levitz, Gil Sansón, Jessica Werb
Dedication: to the Montréal Scratch Orchestra, a unique collection of participants at a unique moment in music history.
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