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Music Amici Ben Johnston's (b 1926) music shows the confluence of several traditions of music-making that have flourished within the United States. In the 1950s his output was characterized by the neoclassicism of his teacher Darius Milhaud. In the 1960s he explored serial techniques and, at the end of the...
Ben Johnston: String Quartets Nos. 1, 5 & 10
Kepler Quartet: Sharan Leventhal, violin I; Eric Segnitz, violin II; Brek Renzelman, viola; Karl Lavine, cello This disc, with premiere recordings of Ben Johnston’s (1926-2019) first, fifth and tenth string quartets, presents his earliest and latest essays in the genre and one from roughly the middle of his output. The three...
Ben Johnston: String Quartets Nos. 2, 3, 4, & 9
The Kepler Quartet Ben Johnston's (1926-2019) music has reached a wide and diverse audience, both at home and abroad, without compromising its high seriousness or its depth of philosophic purpose. His music shows the confluence of several traditions of music-making that have flourished within the United States. In the 1950s...
Ben Johnston: Sonnets of Desolation; Visions and Spels
The New Swingle Singers; The New Verbal WorkshopOf his works, Ben Johnston writes:“Sonnets of Desolation was commissioned by the Paul Fromm Foundation for the New Swingle Singers. It is a setting of four of the last sonnets of the British poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. The poems deal with spiritual crisis,...
Ben Johnston: String Quartets Nos. 6, 7, & 8
Kepler Quartet: Sharan Leventhal, violin I; Eric Segnitz, violin II; Brek Renzelman, viola; Karl Lavine, cello The ten string quartets of Ben Johnston (1926-2019), written between 1951 and 1995, constitute no less than an attempt to revolutionize the medium. Only the first limits itself to conventional tuning. The others, climaxing in...
Joseph Schwantner: Wild Angels of the Open Hills; Ben Johnston: String Quartet No. 6
Jubal Trio (Constance Beavon, soprano; Sue Ann Kahn, flute; Susan Jolles, harp); New World String Quartet (Curtis J. Macomber and William Patterson, violins; Robert Dan, viola; Ross T. Harbaugh, cello)Joseph Schwantner writes:"Wild Angels Of The Open Hills, commissioned by the Naumburg Foundation for the Jubal Trio, was composed between June...
Music from the University of Illinois
University of Illinois Contemporary Chamber Players; Guillermo Perich, viola; Thomas Fredrickson, bass; John Fonville, flute; Paul Martin Zonn, clarinet; Wilma Zonn, oboe; Ray Sasaki, trumpet; Jim Staley, trombone; Daniel Perantoni, tuba; Don Baker, percussion; Arthur Maddox, piano; Edwin London, Conductor; Paul Martin Zonn, ConductorEdwin London writes:“Psalm of These Days III...
Robert Miller, piano “... in the past, the point of disagreement has been between dissonance and consonance, it will be, in the immediate future, between noise and so-called musical sounds.” — John Cage The most characteristic features of American music are its eclecticism and innovation. The works presented here are...
Ben Johnston (1926-2019) was an American composer whose works were built on the pure ratios of the overtone series. His awards included a Guggenheim Fellowship, a grant from the National Council on the Arts and the Humanities, two commissions from the Smithsonian Institution, and the Deems Taylor Award. In 2007, the American...
Ben Johnston talking with Joan Thomson on February 24, 1977 in New Haven, Connecticut for the Oral History of American Music at Yale. Music String Quartet No. 10: "Sprightly, Not Too Fast" Score Graphic from "Ben Johnston, Strings Quartets Nos. 2, 3, 4 & 9 - Kepler Quartet" (New World...