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Jazz fiends and violins

Tonight: waiting with bated breath for the finals of the Michael Hill tomorrow! John Psathas talks about his Gyftiko in the continuation of Amber read’s series on the NZ commissions for the first round for solo violin. Also, jazz-mania in the capital  with the 2017 Wellington Jazz Festival – all sorts on this coming weekend AS WELL AS brand new releases on the Rattle jazz label, hot off the press. Plus in the second hour, a look at music inspired by the poets of the Beat Generation, including John Adam's Kerouac tribute The Dharma at Big Sur: and in New Music Dreams Ryan looks at a new drone soundtrack to the 1932 horror film Vampyr.

9:00

Michael Hill International Violin Competition commissions over the ages
Programme 6 of 8: John Psathas

Jim Langabeer - Secret Islands

Jim Langabeer - Secret Islands Photo: album cover art

JOHN PSATHAS: Gyftiko
Sergey Malov (vln)
RNZ

JIM LANGABEER: selection from the album Secret Islands
Jim Langabeer (tenor sax, fls, putorino), Roger Manins (alto sax), Neil Watson (gtrs), Rosie Langabeer (keys), Eamon Edmundson-Welles (bass), Chris O’Connor (drums)
Rattle Jazz RAT-J 1035 2017

Reuben Bradley - Shark Variations

Reuben Bradley - Shark Variations Photo: album cover art

PROKOFIEV arr. Cunliffe:  Piano Concerto No. 3, Mvt I. Andante – Allegro
Michael Houstoun (pno) & The Rodger Fox Big Band
RATTLE 410268

BRADLEY/MANINS/HIRST: Selection from the album Shark Variations
Reuben Bradley (drums), Roger Manins (sax), Brett Hirst (bass)
Rattle Jazz  RAT-J 1034 2017

10:00 Beat Generation

The Beat poets have inspired all kinds of composers to set their words to music and compose instrumental music inspired by their unorthodox lives and work. We'll hear some of the best examples of this tonight. In the case of William S. Burroughs' Dead City Radio, 'el hombre invisible' himself lends his instantly recognisable voice.

William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac - New York City 1953. Photo by Allen Ginsberg.

William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac - New York City 1953. Photo by Allen Ginsberg. Photo: Creative Commons

Jack Kerouac

TOM WAITS (words by Jack Kerouac): Home I'll Never Be
Tom Waits (voice, pno)
Nonesuch 519598

JOHN ADAMS: The Dharma at Big Sur
Tracy Silverman (electric vln), BBC SO/John Adams
Nonesuch 7559 79857

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

ALEX TAYLOR (words by Lawrence Ferlinghetti): They Were Putting Up The Statue Of St Francis; In Golden Gate Park That Day
Alex Taylor (voice, pno)
Private recording

William S. Burroughs

BILL GIANT; EUGENE CINES; FRANK DENNING; RAY ELLIS (words by William S. Burroughs): Apocalypse, from Dead City Radio
William S. Burroughs (narrator)
Island 846264

11:00 New Music Dreams

Radiance X: Her Dark Gaze Drowned In Light - Stephan Mathieu

Radiance X: Her Dark Gaze Drowned In Light - Stephan Mathieu Photo: album cover art

Radiance X: Her Dark Gaze Drowned In Light (2017) is German sound artist, Stephan Mathieu's haunting drone-based re-narration of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1932 supernatural horror film Vampyr.

STEPHAN MATHIEU:  Radiance X: Her Dark Gaze Drowned In Light
Stephan Mathieu (electronics), Olga Politova (pno),  Sylvain Chauveau (gtr)
Touch Music/F­airwood Music