Music
Composer, keyboardist and bandleader, Missy Mazzoli, joins John Schaefer to introduce selections from her new recording, “Vespers for a New Dark Age.” The work, commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the 2014 Ecstatic Music Festival, is a 30-minute suite for singers, chamber ensemble and electronics, and is built around text, both spiritual and worldly, by contemporary poet Matthew Zapruder. Mazzoli wrote for the very specific voices of sopranos Martha Cluver, Melissa Hughes and alto Virginia Warnken Kelsey, who all have a lot of experience with contemporary music but also early and Baroque music. Her ensemble Victoire provides dramatic settings while drummer Glenn Kotche (perhaps best known for his work in Wilco) propels the work percussively. Plus, hear selections from Phil Kline’s millennial mass “John the Revelator,” written for the early/new music vocal group Lionheart and the quartet ETHEL. PROGRAM #3709 with Missy Mazzoli (First aired on 3/30/2015) ARTIST(S) RECORDING CUT(S) SOURCE DURATION Roomful of Teeth Render Missy Mazzoli: Vesper Sparrow, excerpt Due out April 28, 2015 New Amsterdam Records - #NWAM 065 newamrecords.com 1:00 Missy Mazzoli & Victoire Vespers for a New Dark Age I. Wayward Free Radical Dreams New Amsterdam Records - #NWAM 062 newamrecords.com 5:09 Missy Mazzoli & Victoire, feat. Martha Cluver & Glenn Kotche Vespers for a New Dark Age II. Hello Lord See above. 2:27 Missy Mazzoli & Victoire, feat. Melissa Hughes, Virginia Warnken Kelsey, Martha Cluver & Glenn Kotche Vespers for a New Dark Age IV. Come On All You See above. 5:35 Missy Mazzoli & Victoire Vespers for a New Dark Age V. New Dark Age See above. 2:40 Missy Mazzoli & Victoire Vespers for a New Dark Age VII. Machine See above. 4:47 Missy Mazzoli & Victoire Vespers for a New Dark Age VIII. Postlude See above. 4:35 Phil Kline (performed by Lionheart & ETHEL) John the Revelator The Man Who Knows Misery Cantaloupe 21047 cantaloupemusic.com 2:44 Phil Kline (performed by Lionheart & ETHEL) ETHEL John the Revelator Dark Was the Night See above. 5:50