Records From a Vanishing City for orchestra
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By Jessie Montgomery. Score only. Duration: 13 min.
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Sold By: Jessie Montgomery Music
PROGRAM NOTE
Records from a Vanishing City is a tone poem based on my recollections of the music that surrounded me as I grew up on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the 1980s and 1990s. Artists, truth seekers, and cultures of all kinds defined our vibrant community. The embracing diversity burst out with an effortless everydayness in block parties, festivals, and shindigs of every sort. Partly because my parents were artists – but also because I just couldn’t help it – I soaked up all that surrounded me: Latin jazz, alternative rock, Western classical, avant-garde jazz, poetry, and Caribbean dance music, to name a few.
A year before completing this work, a very dear family friend passed away and it was decided that I would be the one to inherit a large portion of his eclectic record collection. James Rose was one of the many suns in the Lower East Side cosmos who often hosted parties and generous gatherings for our extended artist family. His record collection was a treasure trove of the great jazz recordings of the 1950s, 1960s and beyond – he was mad for John Coltrane, but also Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk and Ornette Coleman, as well as traditional folk artists from Africa, Asia and South America.
In the process of imagining this piece, I came across a particular record: Sanza and Guitar – Music of the Bena Luluwa of Angola and Zaire (Lyrichord Stereo, 1974) — part of a series of productions during the time when U.S. record companies had taken a particular interest in traditional music from the African continent. Side A, track 3, titled “Birth Song” and sung in call-and-response by a womens’ chorus, rang with an uncanny familiarity in me as it shared melodic contours with a song my mother sang to me as a child “Lullaby for Jessie” (transcribed by my father Ed Montgomery, and published in Broadside Magazine, #151, May 1984). The poignant connection between the lullabies, a gentle cooing and coaxing of new life, cycling through longing and loss become synchronized in this work. An adaptation and hybrid of these two lullabies connects each of the three main sections of Records from a Vanishing City.
This piece is dedicated to the memory of James Rose.
— Jessie Montgomery
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Specs
| Weight | N/A |
|---|---|
| Composer | Jessie Montgomery |
| Ensemble Type | Orchestra |
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