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Leave Your Sleep contains 26 new songs recorded live in the studio. Merchant used the poems, anonymous nursery rhymes, and lullabies of 19th and 20th century British and American writers as source material and set them to original music. Among the authors included are Ogden Nash, e.e. cummings, Robert Louis Stevenson, Christina Rossetti, Edward Lear, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Mervyn Peake, Eleanor Farjeon, Nathalia Crane, and Robert Graves. --Imbd.com....
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Until the 19th century, fashionable Russian audiences preferred Western music. Then came Glinka, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Scriabin, and Tchaikovsky. This program covers the distance from folk tradition to the founding of the Russian style of music by Glinka. Performers include James Galway, Osipov's Balalaika Orchestra, and the Kirov, Bolshoi, and Royal Ballets. Contents include excerpts from: Glinka's Russlan and Ludmilla...
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As we move into the 20th century, music is in transition from Romanticism to Modernism, from self-expression to Realism-or to the attempt to escape from reality to bygone eras. Performers include James Galway and the Vienna Philharmonic under Bernstein, Bohm, and von Karajan. Contents include excerpts from: Puccini's Madama Butterfly; Debussy's Syrinx, La Mer; Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde; Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht; Wagner's Prelude to Tristan...
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From Essaouira, the friends head to the southern deserts of the Morrocan Sahara. Afterwards, they travel through the Agadir region to the city of Agadir on the central coast. Off the tourist grid, this port city is the home of the Timitar Festival. Then, venturing further into the Western Sahara, they travel to Ad Dakla and seek to understand "GADRA" music; its origins, how it is being preserved, and modern interpretations of this style of music.
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This is a musical and human adventure that reveals the most intimate and often hidden part of the Gnawa music of Morocco. Built in the form of a road movie, from Tangier to Essaouira via Tamesloht, Marrakech, Salé, the program brings out the body and soul beyond the music to discover the splendor of a universal message that has crossed time to celebrate life.