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: Recycling - Summer 1999
1) Jamila - Songs fr. a Somali City -Original Music OMCD 007
- trk 8 (4:05) - Siina Miiri
2) Feruccio Busoni: Visionary (Valerie Tryon)
- CBC Records MVCD 1126
- CANCON
- trk 12 (4:05) - excerpt from The Indians' Book
3) Angels in the Mirror: Vodou Music of Haiti
- Ellipsis Arts 4120
- trk 5 (7:25) - mennwat
4) Justin Time - Sampler, Spring 1996
- CANCON
- trk 11 (6:50) - Quartango - Tango Sulla Morte D'un Eroe (i.e. Beethoven)
5) Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band: The Mountain
- E 1064-2
- trk 11(2:50) - Dixieland
6) J.S. Bach - Die Bach Kantate, v46 - BWV 46, 94, 179
- Helmut Rilling, Bach Ensemble
- Haenssler Verlag CD 98808
- trk 11 (3:15) - BWV 46:3
7) Relationships - The Merlin Factor (Jim Hillman)
- Radioland RACD 10010
- CANCON
- trk 3 (6:00) - Nadie conoce el amor
8) Jalatharangam - Anayampatti S. Dhandapani
- Magnasound / OMI D5 C 15030
- trk 1 - Vathapi Ganapathim - (fade after 3:50)
9) Masses by Tallis and Sheppard
- St. John's College Choir, Cambridge, George Guest
- ASV CD GAU 114
- trk 9 (4:35 - start at 0:08, after incipit) - Sheppard Western Wind Mass - Gloria
Instruments
1) From Gershwin's Time - The Original Sounds of George Gershwin 1920-1945
- Sony Classical MH2K 60648
- d2, trk 12 (3:00) - Rhapsody in Blue - Borah Minnevitch & his Harmonica Rascals
2) Lan & Diêp - Chuöng Trinh Ca Cô
- Minh Cành, Út Trà Ôn, Út Bach Lan
- Ngày Mói Music Productions, Westminster, California
- trk 2 (break at 3:15) - 1:20 intro to metrical song
3) True North Brass
- Opening Day Records 9313
- CANCON
- trk 6 (5:00) - Vittorio Monti - Czardas
4) Catherine Perrin - Clavecin - 24 Preludes
- Atma ACD 2 2172
- CANCON
- trk 18 (2:00) - Chopin prelude b- on harpsichord
5) Orbitones, Spoon Harps, & Bellowphones: Experimental Musical Instruments
- Ellipsis Arts CD 3610
- trk 7 (4:10) - Stiltophones
6) Johann David Heinichen: Dresden Concerti
- Reinhard Goebel, Musica Antiqua Köln
- Archiv 437 549 2
- disc 2, trk 1 (3:05) - horns; Concerto F major, Seibel 233, mov't I
7) Dorothy Fields: American Songbook Series
- Smithsonian AD 048-13 A 24150
- trk 19 (3:25) - Aretha Franklin: Today I love everybody
8) Thomas Tallis - Lamentations, Motets, Strings M.
- Theatre of Voices (P. Hillier); The King's Noyse (D. Douglas)
- Harmonia Mundi 907154
- trk 5 (2:01) - If ye love me
9) Nano S. - Kalangkang: Degung Music from Sunda
- Blue Vision BVCD 93.212
- trk 1 (6:20, fade at 1:55)- Kalangkang
10) Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas on Period Instruments
- Malcolm Bilson et al
- Claves CD 50-9707/10
- cd 4, trk 13 (5:00) - op.27 #2 "Moonlight" mov't I - M. Bilson
11) Karsilama
- Green Goat Music GGM CD 001
- CANCON
- trk 1 (4:06) - Kalamatya
Texture
1) Burundi: Musiques Traditionelles
- Ocora C559003
- trk 1 - (5:37)
2) Renée Fleming - The Beautiful Voice
- English Chamber Orch., J. Tate
- London 289 458 858 2
- trk 4 (2:20)- Songs my mother taught me - Dvorak
3) D.D. Jackson (trio + David Murray) - Peace-Song
- Justin Time JUST 72-2
- CANCON
- trk 8 (5:25) - Canon (w. David M.)
4) Spheres - L'Harmonie des Sphères
- Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, Christopher Jackson
- Musica Viva MVCD 1121
- CANCON
- trk 4 (3:50) - J. Mouton - Nesciens Mater
5) Crackle: (The best of) Bauhaus
- label illegible BEGL 2018 CD
- trk 11 (3:10) - Ziggy Stardust - Bauhaus
6) Casa de la Trova
- Erato - Detour 1829 (from Ann)
- trk 1 (4:15) - Flor de verganza
7) Prokofiev, Visions Fugitives, op.22; Debussy, Preludes, bk.II
- Michel Fournier
- Atma ALCD 2 1009
- CANCON
- trk 18 (1:20) - Prokofiev
8) Sivan Perwer: Kirive, Cane Cane
- SES PLAK YAPIM 074 (from Ann)
- trk 1 (4:30) - Xeydoké
Rhythm
1) The Best of Thelonius Monk: The Blue Note Years
- Blue Note CDP 7 95636 2
- trk 8 (2:30) - Evidence
2) Mozart: the Last Five Symphonies
- Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, N. Marriner
- Philips 438 332 2
- cd 2, trk 5 (4:20) - Sym. #40 g minor, menuetto
3) The Fast Side of Dhrupad - Bidur Mallick and Sons
- Welt Musik - Haus der Kulturen der Welt SM 1517-2
- trk 6 (9:26) - Multani: alap to 3:10; composition = 6:15
4) Virtuoso Reality - Joel Quarrington, double bass
- MVCD 1108
- CANCON
- trk 13 (2:00) - Sonatina Tropicale: 3rd mov't "Bossa Nova", Franco Mannino
5) Promo Novela: Suave Veneno
- Polygram Brasil 2809 500
- trk 3 (3:55) - Gostoso Veneno - Djavan & Alcione
6) Carol Welsman - Swing, Ladies, Swing
- Welcar Music WMCD 365
- CANCON
- trk 8 (3:45) - Taking a chance on love
7) Josquin Desprez - Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae
- A Sei Voci; Ensemble Labyrinthes, Les Saqueboutiers de Toulouse, Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris
- Auvidis Astrée E 8601
- trk 7 (2:05-3:08 = 1:05)
8) Mamady Keïta: Nankama
- Fonti Musicali: Traditions du Monde fmd 195
- trk 10 (5:00) - Konkoba
9) J.S. Bach - Cello Suites
- Sergei Istomin
- Analekta Fleurs de Lys FL 2 311405
- CANCON
- cd 2, trk 14 (6:00) - suite #6, Allemande
10) Éthiopiques - Golden Years of Modern Ethiopian M., 1969-75, vol.1
- Buda Musique 89251-2
- trk 5 (5:10) ) - Yeqer mèmèkatesh - Mahmoud Ahmed
9) Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard - Pioneering Women of Bluegrass
- Smithsonian / Folkways SF CD 40065
- trk 13 (2:35) - Memories of Mother & Dad
10) J.S. Bach: Cantatas vol.36: BWV 34, 74, 183
- Bach Ensemble / Helmut Rilling
- Hänssler Classic CD 98887
- trk 4 (3:50) - BWV 183:4 - aria: S (Augér), oboe da caccia, violin, strings, bc
