ListenUp: New Music Playlist
New Music ListenUp
We ring in this week’s playlist with the sound of bells.
Sō Percussion, slated to make their Annenberg Center debut this past April, has been rescheduled for October, when they’ll perform the world premieres of works by graduate students in composition from
Penn’s Department of Music. Here, we feature the ensemble’s recordings of music by
Steve Reich,
Paul Lansky, and
Glenn Kotche. Next up on the playlist is a sampling of
The Crossing’s gorgeous recording of
Robert Convery’s
Voyages, which is set to Hart Crane’s early 20th-century poem of the same name. Although The Crossing’s residency at the Annenberg Center this year was cut short, we can’t wait to bring them back in future seasons. We round out our new music playlist by revisiting two solo piano works we heard at
Jenny Lin’s Glass Reflections recital at the
Penn Museum this past March:
Philip Glass’ hypnotic Etude No. 2 and György Ligeti’s intricate first étude,
Désordre.
