~Commissioed y the Nelso-Atkis Museum o Art~ Fisherma s Last Supper Ad Bach or Breakast To sogs or Soprao ad Piao (200, Duratio: 7') Paul Rudy (192) Text: Marsde Hartley 200 y Tisted Trail Music
Program Notes Fisherma s Last Supper is aout huma love or the ocea despite its dagers, ad loss i its depth It as commissioed y the Nelso-Atkis Museum o Art or a cocert i cojuctio ith a exhiitio o Marsde Hartley s paitigs i 200/4 For ie, they drak the ocea or read, they ate their o despairs cousel rom the moo as theirs or the oolish cotetio Murder is ot a pretty thig yet seas do raucous everythig to make it prettyor the oolish or rave, a ay seas have Text y Marsde Hartley (used y permissio, Yale iversity Press) Biography Paul Rudy (192) as or i South Bed, Idiaa, SA He is Assistat Proessor o Compositio ad Director o the Iter-media/Music Productio ad Computer Techology Ceter at the Coservatory o Music, iversity o Missouri, Kasas City From 1995-2001 he as the compositio techologist at the Aspe Music Festival ad School here he created "The Virtual Cocert Hall" a radio program o electroacoustic music or pulic radio hich also roadcast o Resoace FM (1044) i Lodo, Eglad rom ue, 2002 to ue, 200 He is the 2002 ier o the EMS Electroacoustic Music Prize (Stockholm, Sede) alog ith other aards ad hoors rom the Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competitio, the Fulright Foudatio, Meet the Composer, the Natioal Music Teachers Associatio, ad the Missouri Music Teachers Associatio Commissios iclude Meet the Composer SA, the America Composer s Forum erome Composer Commissioig Project, Music From Chia, Ne York Ne Music Esemle, Kasas City Chorale, eear, the Nelso-Atkis Museum o Art, the MKC Accordio Orchestra, ad the Missouri Music Teachers Associatio His orks, pulished y Tisted Trail Music, have ee roadcast ad perormed orldide ad ca e oud o Livig Artist, SCI (Capstoe), ad Cetaur recordigs I additio to composig he has a avid iterest i icyclig, hikig, campig, ad moutaieerig I 1994 he completed the Colorado Grad Slam ater climig all 54 o Colorado's 14,000 t peaks http://paulrudycom Music 200 y Tisted Trail Music
Bach or Breakast Program Notes The polyphoic music o Bach has alays souded somehat mechaical, ad that is the aspect I have tried to capture i this sog The text y Hartley, himsical o oe level, reveret o aother ad yet slightly cyical cotriutes to rootic almost detached quality o the music here Text: B is or Bach Ad all his sos, Who rote square music or ave ad lot, For arch ad or aisle, For all the lost, orsake thigs No other soud ill save Bach or the lest, Who seeks o more his peace, But ids i this sure, square music Soud made logical solace or the sellig earth, ad climig sky Soud that gives such decet reaso Why a soud should e orm i orm, Logic over takig ight, Settig the seses i a ro, perectig the orderly march I ever heard a stoe peal orth, I ever heard a ell go crashig toard the day, The icadescet es to tell, til the Bach s rought ord The very shape o thigs to praise Text used y permissio, Yale iversity Press 200 y Tisted Trail Music
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