Dedication
DEDICATION features music composed in celebration of the PRISM Quartet’s 20th anniversary by a slew of today’s top composers. The composers come from near (Philly-based Matthew Levy, founding member of PRISM) and far (Donnacha Dennehy, a central figure on the Irish new music scene). They range from some of our most highly visible, award-winning figures (William Bolcom, Chen Yi, Jennifer Higdon, Libby Larsen) to emerging voices (Roshanne Etezady and Dennis DeSantis were both beginning their careers in 2004). And of course, there are friends of the ensemble like sax player Greg Osby, who adds his alto to the mix, and one-time PRISM member Tim Ries. From the frantic, florid playing required by Gregory Wanamaker’s “speed metal organum blues” to the melancholy of Renée Favand-See’s “isolation,” this set of birthday dedications offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of one of the essential contemporary music groups of our time.
–John Schaefer, WNYC
Guest Artists:
Guest appearance by Greg Osby, alto saxophone
Record Label / Catalogue Number:
Innova/800
Release Date:
May 31, 2011
Track Listing
- Inkling
- Howler Back
- Lu
- Speed Metal Organum Blues
- Isolation
- Wait a Minute …
- Talea (Hoping to Somehow Know)
- Stink Up! (Polyprism 1)
- Stink Up! (Polyprism 2)
- Prism #1 (Refraction)
- Mild, Medium-Lasting, Artificial Happiness
- July 23, From Sunrise to Sunset, the Summer of the S.E.P.S.A. bus rides destra e sinistra around Ischia Just to Get Tomorrow's Scatolame
- Just a Minute, Chopin
- Scherzino
- 3 Miniatures: No. 1. Diary
- 3 Miniatures: No. 2. Meditation
- 3 Miniatures: No. 3. Song Without Words
- Bop
- Hive Mind
- Moment of Refraction
- One Twenty
- A Fractured Silence
- Fair and Balanced: I. Remaining Neutral
- Fair and Balanced: II. Seeming Partial
- Fair and Balanced: III. Uncommon Ground
- Fair and Balanced: IV. Incremental Change
- Out of Bounds
- Brokelyn
- Happy Birthday to PRISM
- Straight Up
- Prism #1 (Refraction) (Alternate Take)