New Sounds Live: Miners' Hymns Live

[alice wellintown]

New sounds, as many here know, is a wonderful program.

>From his earliest fiction P has shown an interest in the people who go
underground.



>From the New Sounds Live concerts, we'll hear “The Miners’ Hymns,” a film
score from the Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson.  The work is a
brass-heavy elegy to the coal mining culture in Northeast England, with the
brass elements hearkening back to the colliery bands, which used to be the
local entertainment.

Bill Morrison’s footage, which he refers to as his first real documentary,
is made up of clips from British TV news coverage of ‘80s miners strikes,
and National Coal Board promotional films, framed by slow, stately flyover
shots of where these Durham collieries used to be.  Listen to most of
Jóhannsson’s score, as it was performed live by the Wordless Music
Orchestra, conducted by Gudni Franzson, featuring the composer on
electronics, all recorded earlier this year at the Silent Film Series at
the World Financial Center.  Plus, one more leftover work from the Ecstatic
Music Festival by Jason Treuting called  “pluck, bow, blow” – where all
three members of janus wield many instruments, including melodica, banjo,
bowed harp, and the dizi, a Chinese flute.



http://www.wnyc.org/shows/newsounds/2013/jun/26/
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