Ethnic Kaleidoscope

Frank Lewin (Composer), Johnny Cunningham (Performer), Walter Trampler (Performer), Rinde Eckert (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Johnny Cunningham, Walter Trampler, Rinde Eckert
• Composer: Frank Lewin
• Audio CD (March 1, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Albany Records
• ASIN: B0007RI706
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #899,227 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Snowy-Breasted Pearl

2. Kathleen Fionn

3. Two Horas

4. Tumbalalaika

5. Invocation to Ganesha

6. Little Purple Poppy

7. Triste Espana

8. Commedia dell'arte ballet

9. Polka

10. Folk Song

11. Waltz

12. George Washington's March

13. The Ohio Song and two tunes from Cole's One Thousand

14. Fiddle Tunes

15. Cherokee prayer

16. In Dulci Jubilo

17. Jingle Bells (two versions)

18. Cut-Your-Throat Rock

19. Daphne Waltz

20. I Dream Dreams of You

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Composer Frank Lewin has incorporated folk songs and popular music from various ethnic traditions in his scores and films, television programs, and plays, as well as in his opera Burning Bright (Albany Records: TROY 469/71). Each tune was adapted to the expressive requirements of the particular subject. Occasionally original music was composed in a particular style, as "source music," i.e. music heard within the action of a scene. Two eminent performers of the recent past, both now deceased, open and close this collection: violist Walter Trampler and fiddler Johnny Cunningham. In between, artists of equal merit perform music from a variety of sources. Frank Lewin has written scores for films, television programs, plays, and historical outdoor dramas. Among his concert music are song cycles and choral works, including a requiem which was first performed in 1969, during a memorial service for Robert Kennedy in the chapel of Princeton University, and Music for the ! White House, for which he conducted members of the Westminster Choir and the United States Marine Band. The composer was a member of the faculty of the Yale School of Music from 1971 to 1992, teaching composition for film. During this period he also taught the course Music in Modern Media at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.