Petr Kotik

Name: Petr Kotik – Many Many Women (3Cd)
Brand: Dog W/A Bone
SKU: DWAB 003CD
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Many Many Women (3Cd)

LabelDog W/A BoneGenreSound Art

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Digitally remastered from the original 1981 Labor Record release, and originally released by Dog W/A Bone in 2000, Czech composer/conductor/flutist Petr Kotik's Many Many Women has long been considered a masterpiece of underground music. The polyphonic composition sets Gertrude Stein's entire novella Many Many Women to music and marks the crystallization of Kotik's musical aesthetic. Described by Richard Kostelanetz as "continually austere and yet engaging, realizing a musical reinterpretation of Stein's text," Many Many Women highlights both the musicality of Stein's poetry and Kotik's distinctly personal treatment of melody. The 12-page liner notes include excerpts from the original text, plus essays by Kostelanetz and Village Voice critic Kyle Gann. 3 hours 35 minute excerpt on a 3CD set, performed by the S.E.M. Ensemble.

Details

File under: Contemporary Classical

Cat. number: DWAB 003CD

Year: 2000

Format

Recorded on March 17 and 19, 1980, at Vanguard Recording Studios, New York, NY.

Digital transfers and remastering at Mixture 151, San Leandro, CA, February-March 2000

Release notes

This recording is an edited version of the complete 6-hour long performance. The nature of the music makes it impossible to repeat and correct various passages, therefore, the recording proceeded despite occasional lapses and mistakes, impossible to avoid in a live performance. The recordings (two complete performances) were edited and combined by discarding parts, not acceptable for a record release. Recorded on March 17 and 19, 1980, at Vanguard Recording Studios, New York, NY. Digital…

Tracklist

1-1	Any One Is One	23:35
1-2	Each One Is One	21:05
1-3	She Could Be One Going On Being Living	9:23
1-4	In Mentioning Anything	15:15
1-5	In Completing What Loving Was Needing	3:43
2-1	One Who Was Loving And Living Was That One	8:03
2-2	There Are Many Being Living	8:18
2-3	She Had This Thing	14:35
2-4	There Are Many	9:53
2-5	If She Is In A Way A Tender One	27:59
3-1	And What Is Feeling Is Borrowing	8:33
3-2	There Are Some Suspecting Something	8:22
3-3	That Being Uncovered	17:01
3-4	If There Were Many	14:42
3-5	In Being One	23:59

Credits

Albert de Ruiter: Baritone Vocals, Bass Vocals
Elliot Levine: Baritone Vocals, Bass Vocals
Deborah Ann Ungaro: Clarinet
Salvatore Andolina: Clarinet
William Lyon Lee: Countertenor Vocals, Tenor Vocals
William Zukof: Countertenor Vocals, Tenor Vocals
Zoe Leonard: Cover [Photo]
Tony Morgan: Design
Petr Kotik: Edited By, Flute, Music By
Allan Tucker: Engineer
S.E.M. Ensemble: Ensemble
Susan Sperl: Flute
Kyle Gann: Liner Notes
Richard Kostelanetz: Liner Notes
Blaise Tobia: Photography By
Heiner Stadler: Producer
Dora Ohrenstein: Soprano Vocals
Lois Winter: Soprano Vocals
Gertrude Stein: Text By
Christopher Davidson: Transferred By [Digital Transfers], Remastered By [Remastering]
James Kasprowicz: Trombone
Lon Gormley: Trombone