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Hard Drive by Evan Ziporyn
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Few composers are featured by BMOP more often than Evan Ziporyn. Hard Drive brings movement and expression to a device that’s both ubiquitous and rarely noticed—until it reaches the end of its working life. This angular, perpetually spinning piece arrives at a rock-flavored climax, enhanced by electric guitar and unyielding rhythmic interest. That is, until the catastrophic mechanical failure that brings this work to an all-too-familiar end: a broken hard drive and crashed computer.
Hard Drive (2007)
Evan Ziporyn
Published by Airplane Ears Music (ASCAP)
Recorded May 22nd, 2007 at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Boston, MA
Personnel
Flute
Sarah Brady*
Alicia DiDonato
Rachel Braude (piccolo)
Oboe
Barbara LaFitte*
Laura Pardee Schaefer
Jennifer Slowik (English horn)
Clarinet
Michael Norsworthy*
Jan Halloran (E-flat clarinet)
Karen Heninger (bass clarinet)
Bassoon
Sally Merriman*
Gregory Newton
Margaret Phillips (contrabassoon)
Horn
Whitacre Hill*
Kenneth Pope
Alyssa Coffey
Justin Cohen
Trumpet
Terry Everson*
Dana Oakes
Richard Watson
Trombone
Hans Bohn*
Robert Couture
Bass Trombone
Angel Subero
Tuba
Donald Rankin
Timpani
Craig McNutt
Percussion
Robert Schulz*
William Manley
Mike Williams
Jon Andress
Harp
Virginia Crumb
Electric Guitar
Jonathan Finn
Violin I
Charles Dimmick*
Biliana Voutchkova
Gabriela Diaz
Piotr Buczek
Megumi Stohs
Oana Lacatus
Melanie Auclair-Fortier
Sarita Uranovsky
Colin Davis
Miki Sofia Cloud
Jae Young Cosmos Lee
Colleen Brannen
Sasha Callahan
Sharon Gewirtz
Violin II
Krista Buckland Reisner*
Lois Finkel
Julia Cash
Brenda van der Merwe
Beth Abbate
Jennifer Schiller
Annegret Klaua
Edward Wu
Jodi Hagen
Elizabeth Sellers
Amy Rawstron
Rebecca Katsenes
Viola
Joan Ellersick*
Kate Vincent
Nathaniel Farny
David Feltner
Stephen Dyball
Mark Berger
Dimitar Petkov
Adrienne Elisha
Oleksandr Vavilov
Amelia Clingman
Cello
Rafael Popper-Keizer*
Marc Moskovitz
David Huckaby
Nicole Cariglia
Joanna Morrison
Katherine Kayaian
Leo Eguchi
Bass
Anthony D’Amico*
Susan Hagen
Pascale Delache-Feldman
Scot Fitzsimmons
Robert Lynam
Nancy Kidd
