Compact Discoveries 195: Strange Musical Animals

From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Compact Discoveries
Length: 58:01

"Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant" features such strange musical animals as the Pop-up toadsters, the Circular Sawtoise, the Clocktopus, and the Ballpoint Pen-quins. These delightful poems, written and read by Jack Prelutsky, are accompanied by the music of Lucas Richman with the San Diego Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jahja Ling. Read the full description.

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Cdslogo2inch_small The program also includes new poems by Jack Prelutsky to accompany Camille Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals, from the same San Diego Symphony CD.

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Piece Description

The program also includes new poems by Jack Prelutsky to accompany Camille Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals, from the same San Diego Symphony CD.

Broadcast History

This is a world premiere.

Transcript

Compact Discoveries®
a series of one-hour radio programs produced, written, hosted, and edited by Fred Flaxman
©2012 by Fred Flaxman

Program 195
"Strange Musical Animals"

MUSIC: Saint-Saëns: introduction to Carnival of the Animals performed by the San Diego Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jahja Ling, with pianists Jon Kimura Parker and Orli Shaham [San Diego Symphony, SDS-1001, Track 26]

Hello and welcome to Compact Discoveries. I’m your guide, Fred Flaxman. If you are a regular listener to this program, you know that I just love discovering new music to present to you, especially when it is written by a living American composer who writes music that we can enjoy together even on first listening.

Well, stay with me for the next hour and you’ll not only hear delightful new music by Lucas Richman. You’ll also hear it mixed with the clever, funny, highly imaginative poetry of the Po...
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Musical Works

Title	Artist	Album	Label	Year	Length
Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant	Jack Prelutsky, Lucas Richman, San DIego Symphony Orchestra	Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant.	San Diego Symphony	2011	30:44
Carnival of the Animals	Jack Prelutsky, San Diego Symphony, Jahja Ling	Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant.	San DIego Symphony	2011	00:00

Additional Credits

The San Diego Symphony Orchestra and their Director of Education and Outreach, Adrienne Valencia, for granting permission to broadcast their recording, to the National Endowment for the Arts and JP Morgan Chase for funding the commission of "Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant", and to the Linden Root Dickinson Foundation, the Poetry Foundation, Phyllis and Daniel Epstein, and the musicians of the San Diego Symphony for funding the production of the recording.