Larry Polansky: These Are the Generations

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This is a simulating collection of works with takes from every angle on a tantalizingly unified vision, even if a little beyond one’s grasp. But I think that’s the point. — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2020

Release Date: 29th May 2020
Catalogue No: NW80819
Label: New World
Length: 72 minutes

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Polansky: Glockentood II

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Chris Clarino

Polansky: Eleh Tol’d’ot

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William Winant Percussion Group

Polansky: Sacco, Vanzetti

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Sheila Willey
Emily Sinclair

Polansky: 22 Sounds

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Douglas Perkins

Polansky: five songs for kate and vanessa

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Kate Stenberg, Vanessa Ruotolo, Amy Beal

higher

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corner cows

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to&fro / in&out

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courante

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jig

Track length5:15

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Polansky: kaddish (ladder) canon

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Genevieve Kromm, Amy Beal

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The title of this recording has multiple meanings for its composer, Larry Polansky (b. 1954). These are the generations is a translation of the Hebrew title for the second work on the program, Eleh Toldot, the first words of the thirty-fifth verse of the first book (Breysheet) of the Torah. The compositions included stem from different generations of Polanskys musical output: Some were composed in the 1980s while he was teaching at Mills College in Oakland, California; some while living in New Hampshire when he was a Professor of Music at Dartmouth College; and others are recent compositions completed in Santa Cruz, California, around the time of Polanskys retirement from the University of California. The performers on the recording are similarly of different generations. Some have known and worked with Polansky since the 1980s or earlier; others are much younger and began working with him as graduate students within the last few years. Finally, the works presented here demonstrate Polanskys deep understanding of the history and techniques of experimental music in the United States. Within these compositions one can find compositional approaches that span styles from the Ultramodernists in the early twentieth century to advanced computational algorithms not yet possible in that era.

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Nov/Dec 2020

This is a simulating collection of works with takes from every angle on a tantalizingly unified vision, even if a little beyond one’s grasp. But I think that’s the point.

Larry Polansky: These Are the Generations

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