Michael Gordon
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A Western - How to fold the wind
$21.99CDCantaloupe Music
May 16, 2025CA21190 -
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Gordon & Matthusen: Dark Currents
CD$21.99$19.79Cantaloupe Music
Aug 30, 2024CA21201 -
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A Western - How to fold the wind
WUM und BUM und die Dame DING DONG / Kaftan, Beethoven Orchester Bonn
CRASH! and BANG! and BOOM-BOOM-BOOM! Noise levels rise when four very-very-very special people get together to party. Gordon Kampe has illustrated Brigitte Werner’s bestselling picture book WUM und BUM und die Damen DING DONG with the sound of music, and the interpretive contributions by the fabulous Sunnyi Melles and the spirited and vibrant Beethoven Orchestra of Bonn under the conductor Dirk Kaftan create magnificent, top-quality fun for young and old alike! The instrumentation of Kampe’s score is highly original: pot lids and pieces of fabric, boxes and bottles, tin cans and balloons, and even a tuneful saw are deployed – a challenge not only for the two percussionists, whose arms and hands are kept more than busy. When the corks pop at the end, the entire orchestra is invited to join in the fun – with plenty of pep and pizzazz! However, before the two ladies scuffle with the two gentlemen, each of the four gets a chance to show her or his stuff. Mr. WUM raises a racket in his house, Mr. BUM turns his march music up to the decibel max, Ms. DING crams her hoard of cartons into the garbage dumpster, and Ms. DONG warbles her ditties from morning to night. Kampe characterizes his gang of four with plenty of respect and love for these protagonists, along with allusions from music history guaranteed to tickle our ears. Sunnyi Melles lends the characters dazzling appeal. Her fascinatingly versatile voice enables her to bring the picture-book heroes and heroines to life, each in her or his own way – and let’s not forget the “Fly Poop at Four-Thirty.” From “Lascivious but youthfully free” to “Tearily operatic,” from “Super-marvelous” to “Indignation meets Bummsfallera,” Melles in her speaking role and the orchestra quite evidently very much enjoy performing Kampe’s score, to the delight of the many young participants from Bonn grade schools and to listeners everywhere!
DEXTERNITY
GORDON BRISKER QUINTET: My Son John
Beeferman: Four Parts Five
Getty: Plump Jack
Gordon Getty: The Little Match Girl
Getty, G.: Orchestral Music
IN THE MIDDLE OF THINGS
Gordon: Rappahannock County
McPherson, G.: Detours / Maps and Diagrams of our Pain / Bor
[purgatorio] POPOPERA
DECASIA
TIMBER REMIXED
Gordon: Timber
The Unchanging Sea
Rushes
Michael Gordon: Sonatra
Michael Gordon: Timber Remixed
Gordon & Matthusen: Dark Currents
Gordon: The House Without A Christmas Tree / Moore, Houston Grand Opera
Precocious Addie Mills is smart and energetic, just like the mother she never knew. Addie has no idea why her father resents the holidays so intensely, refusing even to allow a Christmas tree in the house. But when she brings home a tree she won in a school contest, it paves the way for a miracle of sorts—her father’s broken soul is transformed. The House without a Christmas Tree, a new opera by Ricky Ian Gordon and Royce Vavrek that premiered at Houston Grand Opera in 2017, is based on the book by Gail Rock and the beloved 1972 television movie of the same name. Ricky Ian Gordon (b. 1956 in Oceanside, NY) studied piano, composition and acting, at Carnegie Mellon University. After moving to New York City, he quickly emerged as a leading writer of vocal music that spans art song, opera, and musical theater. Mr. Gordon’s songs have been performed and or recorded by such internationally renowned singers as Renee Fleming, Dawn Upshaw, Judy Collins, Kelli O’Hara, Audra MacDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, Andrea Marcovicci, and the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, among many others. Royce Vavrek is a Canada-born, Brooklyn-based librettist and lyricist who has been called “the indie Hofmannsthal” (The New Yorker) a “Metastasio of the downtown opera scene” (The Washington Post), “an exemplary creator of operatic prose” (The New York Times), and “one of the most celebrated and sought after librettists in the world” (CBC Radio). His opera “Angel’s Bone” with composer Du Yun was awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
