An overview of CSO MusicNOW, the orchestra‘s long-running new music series, featuring an interview with Jessie Montgomery, the CSO composer-in-residence and series’ curator. Hosted by Robbie Ellis.
Robbie Ellis and Jessie Montgomery at Symphony Center, October 2022. Credit: Autumn Stolle.
Jessie Montgomery: Voodoo Dolls (excerpt)
Kontras Quartet: Eleanor Bartsch and François Henkins, violins; Ben Weber, viola; Jean Hatmaker, cello
(from Classical Music Chicago’s Rush Hour Concerts, September 22, 2020)
Jessie Montgomery: Rhapsody No. 1
Isabel Chen, violin
(WFMT recording, first broadcast July 31, 2021)
Jessie Montgomery: Sergeant McCauley:
I. Just Now
II. Makina
Imani Winds and the Catalyst Quartet: Brandon Patrick George, flute; Toyin Spellman-Diaz, oboe; Mark Dover, clarinet; Kevin Newton, horn; Monica Ellis, bassoon; Abi Fayette & Karla Donehew-Perez, violins; Paul Laraia, viola; Karlos Rodriguez, cello
(recording supplied)
Carlos Simon: Requiem for the Enslaved:
In Paradisum (instrumental version) (excerpt)
MK Zulu, trumpet; Carlos Simon, piano
(Decca 4852939)
Alvin Singleton: After Fallen Crumbs (in memory of Martin Luther King, Jr.) (excerpt)
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Louis Lane, conductor
(First Edition FECD-0043)
Carlos Simon: Lickety-Split
Josh DeVries, cello; Joshua Marzan, piano
(Navona NV-6155)
Xavier Foley: Shelter Island (excerpt)
Randall Goosby, violin; Xavier Foley, double bass
(Decca B0033878-02)
Andrea Casarrubios: Speechless (excerpt)
Andrea Casarrubios, cello; Garrett Arney, percussion
(Odradek ODRCD-382)
Richard Einhorn: Maxwell’s Demon No. 4
Davis Brooks, violin
(from the album Violin & Electronics 2)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Partita No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002:
III. Sarabande
Rachel Barton Pine, violin
(Avie AV-2360)
Jessie Montgomery: Strum
CMPI String Quartet: Esme Arias-Kim & Sameer Agrawal, violins; Ella Saputra, viola; Jonathan Miller, cello
(WFMT recording, first broadcast December 13, 2021)
