9/11 Artists Respond

This afternoon at 4pm, KPAC & KTXI air a special program, Artists Respond. It looks at creativity with composers. Here is the playlist:

Augusta Read Thomas: Eagle at Sunrise - Ying String Quartet (Quartz Records)

Troy Peters: Lament - 9/11/01 (live recording)

Richard Danielpour: An American Requiem - Pacific Symphony & Chorale Carl St. Clair (Reference Recordings)

Steve Reich: WTC 9/11 - Kronos Quartet (Nonesuch Records)

John Adams: On the Transmigration of Souls - NY Philharmonic Lorin Maazel (Nonesuch Records)

Robert Moran: Trinity Requiem - Trinity Childrens Chorus Robert Ridgell (Innova Records)

Edgar Meyer: Short Trip Home - Josh Bell Mike Marshall Sam Bush Edgar Meyer (Sony Classical)

Another version of Artists Respond, with more interviews, airs at 8pm on KSTX:

Troy Peters: Lament - 9/11/01 (live recording)

Richard Danielpour: An American Requiem - Pacific Symphony & Chorale Carl St. Clair (Reference Recordings)

Penn and Teller: American Flag trick - West Wing (NBC)

Augusta Read Thomas: Eagle at Sunrise - Ying String Quartet (Quartz Records)

Chris Brubeck interview

Steve Reich: WTC 9/11 movement 1- Kronos Quartet (Nonesuch Records)

John Adams: On the Transmigration of Souls - NY Philharmonic Lorin Maazel (Nonesuch Records)

Robert Moran: Trinity Requiem - Trinity Childrens Chorus Robert Ridgell (Innova Records)

Edgar Meyer: Short Trip Home - Josh Bell Mike Marshall Sam Bush Edgar Meyer (Sony Classical)

Read composers, conductors and artists creative responses here.

GTOC: Journey's End

Here are some never seen before photos and video coverage of YOSA'a Great Tour of China:

New Release: A Flowering Tree

Today marks the release of John Adams' A Flowering Tree from Nonesuch Records. It was commissioned for the 250th Anniversary of Mozart's birth - and features soprano Jessica Rivera, tenor Russell Thomas, and baritone Eric Owens with the London Symphony Orchestra and composer John Adams conducting.

It's the story of an impoverished young Indian girl, Kumudha, who has the magical ability to transform herself into a tree and sells her blossoms at the palace to help her ailing mother. The Prince falls in love with her, and they marry but are torn apart by his jealous sister. After Kumudha is cast out into a netherworld as half woman, half tree, and the Prince becomes a wandering beggar, they meet again years later at the prince’s sister’s palace. No longer physically recognizable, Kumudha reunites with her prince through her beautiful singing voice.

John Clare spoke with Eric Owens, who created the role of General Leslie Groves in Adams' Dr. Atomic, about this new recording, and his debut at the Met this fall.

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