CD: RUTH LOMON at 80

Representing a span of nearly 50 years of Lomon’s music, this CD was recorded live at the Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University, in a celebration of her 80th birthday, on Nov. 14, 2010.

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(1)    Dialogue (1964)    Vivian Montgomery, harpsichord; John Andress, vibraphone
3:28
(2)     The Sunflower (1962),text by William Blake.   Pamela Dellal, mezzo-soprano; Noralee Walker, viola       1:09
(3)    The Sunflower Variations (2010)   Eileen Hutchins, piano       11:35
Canticles (2004), texts by Marguerite Bouvard.  Jane Ring Frank, piano; Jennifer Ashe, soprano
(4)  Honoring the Hidden Work       2:30
(5)  Mindfulness        0:58
(6)  Questions       2:27
Shadowing.   Mark Latham, violin;  Walker, viola; Sandi-Jo Malmon, ‘cello; Hutchins, piano
(7)   Canto Hondo  – The Deep Song  (1993)       5:17
(8)   Los Ángelos Tímidos  – The Shyest Angels      4:25
(9)   Running with the Wolves  (1995)      2:42
(10)  Tributary (2001)   Jesse Begelfer, Jill Dreeben & Emily Krainer, flutes      8:42
Esquisses (1992)   Michelle Kelley, piano
(11)   Les Cloches       3:42
(12)   La Fête        2:26
(13)  Memoires de…      3:58
Sweet Sixteen (2003)        Based on a poem by Vera Weislitzova
(14)   Poem read by Alexandra Borrie, actor      1:58
(15)   Behind the Wall        2:13
(16)  The Ball       1:23 Jill Dreeben, flute
From Songs of Remembrance (1996)
(17)  A ceux que mes yeux ont vu partir
Berthe Wizenberg Fleischer, poet      4:28
(18)  Love Song;  Charlotte Delbo, poet      12:51

Total: 76:19 All music (c) Ruth Lomon, BMI, Inc.
Album art from a painting by Devin Lomon-Humes, the composer’s grandson.