Julia Wolfe: Arsenal of Democracy, etc / SPIT, Lark, et al

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Personnel: Elizabeth Panzer (harp); Eva Gruesser, Jennifer Leshnower, Mary L. Rowell, Jennifer Orchard, Muneko Otani, Todd Reynolds , Laura Seaton (violin); Michiko Oshima, Anna Kruger, Ralph Farris, John Lad (viola); Greg Hesselink, Jennifer Kloetzel, Mark Stewart , Astrid Schween, John Whitfield (cello); Tara Helen O'Connor, Stefani Starin (flute); Michael Lowenstern (clarinet); Melinda Newman (oboe); Johnny Reinhard (bassoon); Michael Van Dijk (soprano saxophone); Rutger Van Otterloo (alto saxophone); Bob Driessen (baritone saxophone); Anita van Soest, Louis Lanzing (trumpet); Beatrice Driver (French horn); Willem van Manen, Johan de Meij, Julie Josephson (trombone); Hans Visser (bass trombone); Daniel Grabois (horns); Jaap Dercksen, John Halle (piano); Christopher Oldfather (organ); Sjeng Schupp (bass guitar); John Ferrari, Danny Tunick (percussion); Michael Lipsey, Nina Kellman (harmonic canon). Audio Mixer: Michael Riesman. Photographer: Patty Lehan. Unknown Contributor Role: Nina Kellman. Arsenal of Democracy is the first solo recording by deconstructionist composer Julia Wolfe. Wolfe, who is the co-founder of New York's annual Bang On a Can festival, takes the orchestra from its traditional methods of emotional coaxing and replaces them with a ballistic immediacy that challenges the entire impression of what modern orchestration can achieve. The five pieces contained on Arsenal of Democracy weave rich layers of minimal, almost indeterminate constructs that define freedom by deconstructing traditional orchestral cogency. Through her music, Wolfe confronts the same romantic questions that addressed themselves to American artists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Cage: why does tradition set the standards by which to judge modern art when evolution is always in progress? Musical evolution is reinforced by artists like Wolfe who choose to feel the things around them for themselves instead of relying on the template of the past. On Arsenal of Democracy, Wolfe conducts the SPIT Orchestra, Lark Quartet, Orkest de Volharding, Cassatt String Quartet, and Newband. Wolfe's first recording has a unique, democratic freedom that strikes without warning and doesn't need to be reminded of a theme. ~ Greg Matherly
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