2015年12月11日金曜日

[019] WNYC New Sounds: Music by Moondog


ニューヨーク公共ラジオ局WNYCの音楽プログラム「New Sounds」。12月9日放送回は、1940年代末から奇態な風貌でニューヨーク6番街の路上に住み、クラシックやジャズ、ネイティヴ・アメリカン、街角のリズムから非凡な音楽を作曲した、盲目のミニマリストMoondog aka Louis Thomas Hardin(ルイス・トーマス・ハーディン)の特集。

Listen to music by the American composer Moondog, aka Louis Hardin, or "the Viking of 6th Avenue," who was also a musician, a poet and the inventor of several musical instruments (and was blind.) He adopted his nom de plume in honor of a dog "who used to howl at the moon more than any dog I knew of." Moondog performed daily in a cape and Viking helmet on the corner of 52nd Street and 6th Avenue in New York City, up until 1974, when he left for Germany. He died on September 8, 1999 at the age of 83 in Munster, Germany.  Also, hear Moondog's music as arranged by sax-men Sylvain Rifflet & Jon Irabagon, as well as reinterpretations of Moondog's music by the trio called Hobocombo for this New Sounds program. And more. PROGRAM #3634 Music of Moondog (First aired on 9/08/2014)


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