Monsterology

Esther Lamneck (clarinet), Allen Cross (violin), Ken Ishii (cello), Tamara Thweatt (flute), Yasmin Flores (clarinet), Kazuo Murakami (piano), Ginny Armstrong (percussion), Jeffrey Lyman (bassoon), Michael Geary (percussion), Timothy Salter (tenor), John Muriello (baritone)

Catalog #: TROY0900
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Format: Digital
Chamber

This recording features works by members of the composition faculty of the University of Iowa School of Music: Michael Eckert, Lawrence Fritts and David Gompper. The six new works presented here, all composed in the 21st century, showcase a diversity of harmonic languages and musical materials, from Gompper's post-tonal centricity to Eckert's neo-classic atonality to Fritt's use of mathematical algorithms and computer-generated timbres. Lawrence Fritts is Associate Professor of Composition and Theory and director of the Electronic Music Studios at the University. His composition teachers were Shulamit Ran, John Eaton and Ralph Shapey. Another pupil of Ralph Shapey is Michael Eckert, also an Associate Professor of Theory and Composition. He has won the Bearns Prize for Composition from Columbia University and a Charles Ives Scholarship from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. David Gompper is Professor of Composition and Director of the Center for New Music at the University. Gompper has lived and worked as a composer, teacher, conductor and pianist in England, Nigeria and, most recently, Russia. The project was sponsored by a grant from the University of Iowa Arts and Humanities Initiative.

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Track Listing

Title Composer Performer
Monsterology Lawrence Fritts University of Iowa Chamber Orchestra, William LaRue Jones, conductor
Musicometry I for Clarinet with Amplification & Tape Lawrence Fritts Esther Lamneck, clarinet
Echo's Song Michael Eckert University of Iowa Kantorei, Timothy Salter, conductor
Point of No Return Michael Eckert Allen Cross, violin, Ken Ishii, cello, Tamara Thweatt, flute, Yasmin Flores, clarinet, Kazuo Murakami, piano, Ginny Armstrong, percussion, David Gompper, conductor
Kuta Muela David Gompper Tamara Thweatt, flute, Jeffrey Lyman, bassoon, Kazuo Murakami, piano, Michael Geary, percussion, David Gompper, conductor
An Elm We Lost David Gompper Timothy Salter, tenor, John Muriello, baritone, University of Iowa Chorus & Orchestra, David Gompper, conductor

Reviews

  • "Gompper's superbly expressive setting creates a haunting and deeply poignant atmosphere throughout."

    – Fanfare

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