SOUND PORTRAITS
ORCHESTRA, CHAMBER, & ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC MUSIC
By Vivian Adelberg Rudow
Photos taken from 1985-2005. Vivian & Juan Blanco 1987 in Cuba with performance on tennis court, Deanna Bogart, Eric Conway, Jonathan Jensen, the late Joseph Eubanks, Ronald Mutchnik, Jeff Chappell, Sara Nichols, Edward Hoffman, the late Stephen Kates, Vivian & Grace Cavalieri 1985, Jeff Silberschlag 2005
Sound Portraits: Orchestra, Chamber and Electro-Acoustic Music by Vivian Adelberg Rudow, MSR Classics, includes selected compositions composed from 1985, The Healing Place, to 2012, Moo-Goo-Gipan Smash!, displaying historical composition development into an amazing variety of styles. There are very few composers who have the music skills to compose in classical acoustic and electro-acoustic music, and the combined genres. This historical CD includes performers from solo pianists to the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
In the Sound Portraits album, you can trace how she, like Brahms and Bartók began to incorporate folk music (our pop rhythms and vocabulary) into her music in Spirit of America near the late middle section, and later in John’s Song, Variation 1, and then Go Green!, music that symbolizes groups of enthusiastic people cleaning up streams, waterways, parks and roadsides.
12 TRACKS (1985—2012)
01. SPIRIT OF AMERICA (1999/2006)
Urbo Turbo (Urban Turbulence)
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Jeffrey Silberschlag conductor
02. JOHN'S SONG (2006/2007)
(2006/07) Edward Hoffman: trumpet | Jonathan Jensen: keyboard | Vivian Adelberg Rudow: electronic music
03. JOHN'S SONG - VARIATION 1 (2008)
Deanna Bogart: keyboard
04. THE BARE SMOOTH STONE OF YOUR LOVE (1998)
Stephen Kates: violoncello | Eun Jung Shon: piano
05. REBECCA'S RAINBOW RACING AMONG THE STARS (1991)
Jeffrey Chappell: piano
06. REBECCA'S SONG(1989)
Eric Conway: piano
07. GO GREEN! (2010)
Sara Nichols: flute | Orchestra of St. John’s | Ronald Mutchnik: conductor
08. CUBAN LAWYER, JUAN BLANCO (2000)
Juan Blanco spoken thoughts | Sherif Shaalan: Latin keyboard rhythms | Vivian Adelberg Rudow: electro-acoustic music
09. DAWN'S JOURNEY (2005)
Dawn Culbertson: answering machine message | English Country Dance Music from Bare Necessities (courtesy of Rounder Records) Vivian Adelberg Rudow: electro-acoustic music | Eric Conway and Jeffrey Chappell: piano
10. CALL FOR PEACE (2005)
Sara Nichols: flute | Vivian Adelberg Rudow: electronic music
11. THE HEALING PLACE (1985/1991)
to a Poem by Grace Cavalieri | Res MusicAmerica: flute, clarinet, violin, viola, violoncello | Vivian Adelberg Rudow: electronic music | Joseph Eubanks: narrator
12. MOO-GOO-GIPAN SMASH! (2012)
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: electronic music