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STEPHEN PAULUS: THE FIVE SENSES
[Arsis CD153]
(b. 1949)
The Age of American Passions
The Five Senses - Windows of the Mind
Janet Bookspan, narrator
Joan Vail Thorne, text
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Gil Rose, conductor
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Janet Bookspan delivered the text with imaginative timbres and accents and lots of aplomb.
- The Boston Globe on the 2003 performance
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BERNARD RANDS: CANTI TRILOGY
[Arsis ASI 156]
(b. 1934)
Canti del Sole (1983)
Canti Lunatici (1980)
Canti dell'Eclisse (1992)
Lucy Shelton, soprano
Douglas Ahlstedt, tenor
Thomas Paul, bass
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Gil Rose, conductor
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Chosen as one of the "Best CDs of 2004" by Time Out New York
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project is extremely able and musical. Performing Bernard Rands's three astronomical Canti of the 1980's and early 90's last Thursday, Mr. Rose and his team filled the music with rich, decisive ensemble colors and magnificent solos. -The New York Times on the 2000 performance
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ELENA RUEHR: TOUSSAINT BEFORE THE SPIRITS
[Arsis Records 158]
(b. 1963)
Toussaint Before the Spirits
Madison Smartt Bell and Elizabeth Spires, libretto
Nicola Hawkins, choreography and dramatization
Stephen Salters, baritone
Opera Unlimited
Gil Rose, conductor
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Based on excerpts from Madison Smartt Bell's award-winning novels All Souls' Rising and Master of the Crossroads, Toussaint Before the Spirits tells the story of Toussaint L'Ouverture, leader and hero of Haiti's revolution towards independence, who was captured in a ruse by Napoleon's army and condemned to die without trial in a cold prison in the French Alps. During his last hours, Toussaint calls forth the spirits to judge his life.
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