Salvatore Martirano, George Rochberg
O, O, O, O, That Shakespeherian Rag / String Quartet No. 2 With Soprano (LP)
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Salvatore Martirano borrowed his title from a line in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, itself a quote of a 1912 ragtime hit, and then set Shakespeare for mixed chorus and instrumental ensemble with a jazz drummer's sense of timing. The piece dates from 1958, before Martirano's turn to electronics and the giant Sal-Mar Construction, yet the appetite for collision is already there: madrigal textures, big-band brass, abrupt cuts.
On the other side, George Rochberg's String Quartet No. 2 adds a soprano singing Rilke's Duino Elegies, written in the years when Rochberg was still a committed serialist and long before his public break with the avant-garde. A 1963 mono pressing on CRI, the Composers Recordings label that kept American contemporary music on record when nobody else would, with notes by Douglas Moore and Edwin London.
| O, O, O, O, That Shakespeherian Rag (For Mixed Chorus And Instrumental Ensemble) | |||
| A1 | Winter - "When Icicles Hang By The Wall" | ||
| A2 | Lullaby - "You Spotted Snakes" | ||
| A3 | Warning - "While You Here Do Snoring Lie" | ||
| A4 | Spring - "When Daisies Pied And Violets Blue" | ||
| B | String Quartet No. 2, With Soprano | 27:40 | |
- Douglas Moore
- Liner Notes
- Edwin London
- Liner Notes
