WITH
JONN SERRIE,
IRA STEIN & IRINA MIKHAILOVA
JEFF JOHNSON & BRIAN DUNNING
DEAN & DUDLEY EVENSON
| Every year on Sonic Seasonings we travel to living rooms around the country. We move around the furniture, turn off the fridge and unplug the phones and musicians play music for the season, live and intimate. This year, Sonic Seasonings travels to the Pacific Northwest for the Celtic sounds of Jeff Johnson & Brian Dunning and the environmental ambiences of Dean & Dudley Evenson. We venture to Oakland for an exquisite performance of the Ira Stein Trio with guest, singer Irina Mikhailova, and we drift out to a living room in space with Atlanta synthesist, Jonn Serrie. Sonic Seasonings 2000 capturing both the spirit and the mood of the holiday season. | ||
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JONN SERRIE is a highly regarded planetarium composer
and has released several popular recordings of synthesized space
music. One of them is UPON
A MIDNIGHT CLEAR (Miramar), an album of inventive arrangements
of Christmas carols. Serrie will come into the Sonic Seasonings
living room and play this music live with special guest, flutist
Gary Stroutsos. | |
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 Brian Dunning, John Diliberto, John Fitzpatrick, Jeff Johnson, Tim Ellis |
JEFF JOHNSON & BRIAN DUNNING have been collaborating for years. Jeff is a noted keyboardist with several records out on the Ark label. Brian is best known as the flutist with the pioneering Celtic group, Nightnoise. The Celtic-inspired music that Johnson and Dunning make follows the travels of saints, warriors and bards. | |
 Brian Dunning, John Fitzpatrick |
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 Tim Ellis |
They'll play this music as well as a few Celtic seasonal favorites on Sonic Seasonings 2000. They'll be joined by John Fitzpatrick on violin, and Tim Ellis on Guitar. | |
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| IRA STEIN is a brilliant pianist who recorded on Windham Hill as part of the Ira Stein & Russel Walder duo and on Narada as a solo artist. In recent years he's recorded improvisations based on Bach chorales on the CD, BACH IMPROVISATIONS (Lost Time Records). |
 Ira Stein |
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 Irina Mikhailova |
On Sonic Seasonings 2000 we'll hear the trio that appears on BACH IMPROVISATIONS and a special guest: Russian singer Irina Mikhailova. | |
| The Ira Stein Trio consists of Ira on Piano and Keyboards, Daniel Zinn on Soprano Sax and Flute and Joseph Hebert on Cello. They're joined for this performance by Irina Mikhailova. The group performs music by Bach, Russian folk songs and original music, including a hymn for Hanukkah that Ira and Irina composed for the collection FESTIVAL OF LIGHT 2. |
 Ira Stein, Daniel Zinn, Irina Mikhailova, Joe Hebert, |
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| DEAN & DUDLEY EVENSON have been weaving environmental soundscapes for flute and zither for many years on their influential Soundings of the Planet label. In their Bellingham home, they weave an evocative landscape of impressionistic holiday music for Sonic Seasonings 2000. |
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 Dean Evenson, Jan Peters, Jason Darling, John Diliberto, Dudley Evenson, Phil Heaven |
They are joined for this performance by Jan Peters on
Guitar, Jason Darling on percussion, and Phil Heaven
on Viola. |
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Click here for a Playlist of Sonic Sesonings 2000, with information about where to find CDs that include some of the tunes included on the program. |
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