Condition: Used
Paul Chihara: GRASS Concerto for Bass and Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
. Maestro Neville Marriner , Conductor
Turnabout 34372
Quadraphonic
Slight ringwear on cover
Record VG++
Side A
GRASS Concerto for Bass and Orchestra
Side B
Ceremony 1
Ceremony 2
Paul Chihara writes: “The three pieces on this LP were written when I was a young composer, I had just resigned my teaching position at UCLA (in 1973), and was just entering the free-lance world of movies, Broadway and ballet. Within six months I found myself working on my first film for Roger Corman (Death Race 2000) and first commissioned ballet score (Shinju, for the San Francisco Ballet). . Maestro Neville Marriner was the orchestra's first music director, and he chose me to be his first composer-in-residence. Over the years, we have maintained the warmest artistic relationship.Despite its title and hallucinogenic orchestral textures,
Grass has nothing to do with marijuana. It was composed in 1974 for the great avant-garde bass virtuoso Bertram Turetsky, and commissioned by Giora Bernstein and the Claremont Music Festival. It derives its title from the pastoral lyrics of the 17th century English poet Andrew Marvell: his Mower songs, with their obsession for the mysterious Juliana, and the recurring metaphor of grass as a symbol of life and death.”
Paul Chihara, composer
Grass (Concerto for Two Double Basses & Orchestra)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Nevile Marriner, conductor, Jon Deak and Buell Neidlinger, double basses
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