This Is Art On CBC Radio
Sometime in 1991 or so, a CBC producer friend of mine, Ann McKeigan and I dreamed up the idea for what became "This is Art". I think it all started when I surprised her by singing a blues scale, with solfa syllables, over one those Jamey Aebersold "Jazz minus one" CD's. I was probably trying to make a point about the similarities between Indian music and blues. I still remember her doing a triple take and saying "Gee, could you do that on the radio?" Well, the answer turned out to be yes, more or less. I've included five batches of playlists here, to match the shows that ran at various times.
"This is Art" CBC Playlist: Arrangement - July 8, 1998
1) The Best of Louisiana Music
- Rounder CD An 08
- trk 19 (3:15) John Delafose & Eunice Playboys - Watch that Dog
2) J.S. Bach - Cantata 115, mov't 6
- Complete Cantatas, v.57; Bach Ensemble / H. Rilling
- Hänssler Classic 98819
- BWV 115:14 - (1:00) Mach dich mein Geist bereit
3) In a beginning - Meiro Stamm
- GeoHarmonic Records CD 212813
- CANCON
- trk 1 (4:10) - Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit
4) Gazeller II: Ottoman-Turkish Vocal Improvisations in 78 rpm records
- Kalan Müzik CD 072
- trk 17 (3:25) - Bakmiyor Çsmi Siyah - Hamiyet Yüceses
5) Pure Emotion - Chico O'Farrill & his afro-cuban jazz orchestra
- Milestone MCD 9239
- trk 5 (12:00) - Variations on a well-known theme
6) Fong Naam: Ancient & Contemporary M. from Thailand
- Celestial Harmonies 14098-2
- disc 2, trk 2 (3:30) - Maha Nimitr
7) Chopin - 24 preludes, etc. - Louis Lortie
- Chandos CHAN 9597
- CANCON
- trk 4 (2:00) - Prelude op.28 #4
8) Compact Jazz: Antonio Carlos Jobim
- Verve 843 273
- trk 5 (3:20) - Insensatez (Stan Getz et al)
9) Bug Music - Don Byron
- Nonesuch 79438
- trk 6 (2:45) - Charlie's Prelude (Chopin 28:4)
10) Llibre Vermell: La route des pèlerins de Montserrat
- Ensemble Anonyme - Analekta AN 2 8001
- CANCON
- trk 9 (5:30) - Cuncti simus concanentes
11) Berio, Stravinsky, Shafer
- Jean Stilwell, Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian
- CBC Musica Viva MVCD 1073
- CANCON
- trk 1 (3:15) - Berio, Folksongs #1/11 - Black is the Colour of my True Love's Hair
Fusion - July 15, 1998
1) Endless - Silk Road Music
- Jericho Beach Music JBM 9801-2
- CANCON
- trk 3 (5:00) - Endless
2) Victoria / Palestrina - Missa ut re mi fa sol la & other works
- Le choeur du studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, C. Jackson
- Analekta FL 2 3120
- CANCON
- trk 11 (5:00) - Victoria - Alma Redemptoris Mater à 8
3) Mr. Wizard - R.L. Burnside
Epitaph / Fat Possum Records 80301-2
- trk 2 (3:30) - Ellie Mae
4) Palace: Evergreen Club Gamelan Ensemble
- Artifact Music ART 012
- CANCON
- trk 1 (9:00) - Evocation - M. Duggan
5) Samba é no fundo de quintal
- Grupo Fundo de Quintal
- RGE 6025
- trk 1 (3:30) - Bebeto Loteria
6) Franz Liszt - Complete Piano Music, vol.4
- Philip Thomson
- Naxos 8.553516
- CANCON
- trk 8 (4:15) - Ave Maria d'Arcadelt
7) Sweetheart of the Rodeo - The Byrds
- Columbia / Legacy CK 65150
- trk 1 (2:30) - You ain't going nowhere
8) J.S. Bach - Cantatas 140, 51, 78
- Bach Ensemble, J. Rifkin
- Oiseau Lyre 443 188
- trk 1 (6:05) - BWV 140:1
9) Unleavened - Maza Mezé
- CANCON
- trk 8 (4:25) - Me Minise I Agapi Mou
Tricky music - July 22, 1998
1) Palestrina - Missa ut re mi fa sol la & other works
- Le choeur du studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, Christopher Jackson
- Analekta FL 2 3120
- CANCON
- trk no's. differ between back & inside cover - back is correct
- trk 5 (5:00) - Sanctus, Pleni, Hosanna
2) cc872 (3:00) - TK Murthy & party - Adi Tala - first mrdangam solo and second recitation solo
3) Stan Rogers - Home in Halifax
- Fogarty's Cove Music FCM 101D
- CANCON
- trk 16 (4:50) - The Mary Ellen Carter
4) Hoggar - Music of the Tuareg
- Le Chant du Monde LDX 274974
- trk 4 (5:10 - fade) - Danse de Tazengharaht
5) Haydn - 6 Prussian Quartets, op.50
- Tokyo String Quartet
- Deutsche Grammophon, 423 509 (2 disc set)
- disc 2, trk 4 (2:35) - op.50 #4: mov't 4 - Fuga
6) Vuja Dé - Mark Duggan et al.
- Vujamusic VMCD 001
- CANCON
- trk 5 (5:45) - Infancia
7) Brahms - Complete Edition: Vokal Ensembles
- Deutsche Grammophon 449 641 (4-cd set)
- disc 4, trk 13 (3:05) - In stiller Nacht - Edith Mathis
8) Right on my way home - Bob Dorough
- Blue Note CDP 7243
- trk 5 (4:30) - I get the neck of the chicken
9) JSB - Cantatas - vol. 28
- Bach Ensemble / Helmut Rilling
- Hänssler Classic CD 98879
- BWV 22 - Jesus nahm zu sich die zwölf
- trk 6 (4:40) - mov't 2 - aria, bc, oboe obbl, Helen Watts, alto
Avant-garde - July 29, 1998
1) Giovanni Gabrieli - Music for San Rocco
- Gabrieli Consort & Players / Paul McCreesh
- Archiv 449 180
- trk 18 (5:45) - Magnificat à 33
2) Double Mandolin - U. Srinivas
- Magnasound CD C5 C15025
- cd 287
- trk 2 (6:45 - fadeable) - Brochevarevare (Thyag) - Sriranjani - Rupakam
3) Debussy: Etudes
- Louis-Philippe Pelletier
- Musica Viva MVCD 1107
4) Isso é bossa nova - Leila Pinheiro
- EMI (Brasil) 830979
- trk 2 (3:10 - coda 0:40 from end) - A primeira vez
5) Whose Forest?
- Hornblower Recordings HR 98104 (from Ann)
- CANCON
- trk 6 (2:45) - Kavkasia Trio - Georgian chorale
6) JB Vanhal, F. Krommer, JC Bach
- Jecklin J 4408
- Camerata Zürich, Räto Tschupp
- trk 9 (3:45) - JCB, symph g-, op6#6, 1st mov't
7) Classic Country Music - a Smithsonian Collection, vol.1
- Smithsonian RD 042-1
- trk 6 (2:45) - Waitin' for a train - Jimmie Rodgers
8) Handel - Agrippina
- Harmonia Mundi 907063.65
- disc 3, trk 12 (2:25; track is 2:45 but includes recit; aria starts 0:20) - unaccomp aria for Poppea
9) Diana Krall - Love Scenes
- Impulse IMPSD 234
- CANCON
- trk 10 (4:40) - How Deep is the Ocean
