A Tree in Your Ear

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    A Tree in Your Ear celebrates landscapes. Landscapes remembered by sounds (the frogs, crickets, and coyotes of Half Moon at Checkerboard Mesa), landscapes heard in songs (the folk music orchestrated by William Grant Still in Miniatures), landscapes felt (Koke No Niwa and Saltwater Blues), and landscapes imagined (Orpheus Singing and Sonic Landscapes). These landscapes are as distinct as the musical styles that evoke them. This is "art music," yet each selection ignores boundaries, borrowing liberally from either popular or folk musical idioms.

    The oboe, a musical instrument made from the mpingo tree, is best known in its symphonic role. But some composers have envisioned the oboe howling with coyotes, rappin' with Diz and Bird, or singing the blues.

Track Listing, with sound clips:

	Half Moon at Checkerboard Mesa Phillip Kent Bimstein		Sound Clip (.wav, 469k)
	Miniatures William Grant Still		Sound Clip (.wav, 512k)
	Koke No Niwa Alan Hovhanness		Sound Clip (.wav, 457k)
	Orpheus Singing Virko Baley		Sound Clip (.wav, 405k)
	Saltwater Blues Yusef Lateef		Sound Clip (.wav, 717k)
	Sonic Landscapes Mark Phillips		Sound Clip (.wav, 555k)

William Grant Still         Phillip Kent Bimstein         Alan Hovhanness        

Virko Baley         Yusef Lateef         Mark Phillips        

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