Crazy Jane <BR> BRIDGE 9290All of the works on this disc were composed for the trio, Crazy Jane, and all receive their premiere recordings. Paul Lansky's Songs of Parting is an intricate elaboration of the folk song variously known as 'Ten Thousand Miles' 'The Lonesome Dove' and 'Fare Thee Well'. Patrick Mason describes poet James Tate as 'pitching his tent in mayhem? s back yard', and David Leisner's setting, for baritone and guitar, pushes the performers to extremes of

But these fiery works have warmth and humor

he established a union between the two series that had dominated his output - the Spirals series begun in 1987 and a series of works in which musicians were asked to simultaneously perform vocally and instrumentally

A-flat major

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Roll Your Own

the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions

Counterfeit Curio

Three Ladies (1983)

over the years

more than any other

Lerdahl's music is greatly admired by cognoscenti

Ensemble is faultless