Cover title. "All pieces were commissioned expressly for The Liaisons Project, Rachel Colbert and Anthony de Mare, producers."--Title page. "Conceived by concert pianist Anthony de Mare, the concert and recording project Liaisons is based on the songs of composer Stephen Sondheim. 37 contemporary composers chose a song by Sondheim and re-imagined it as a solo piano piece"--Back cover. "Companion materials are necessary for three titles in this collection, and may be obtained online through the access code. These include a second piano part for Birds of Victorian England and Finishing the Hat : 2 pianos, and an audio track for Johanna in space." Includes comments from each composer about their contribution.
Contents:
The ballad of Guiteau / Jherek Bischoff -- Another hundred people / Daniel Bernard Romain ; optional improv-cadenza by Anthony de Mare -- Being alive / Gabriel Kahane -- Birds of Victorian England / Jason Robert Brown -- A bowler hat / Annie Gosfield -- A child of children and art / Peter Golub -- Color and light / Nico Muhly -- The demon barber / Kenji Bunch -- Everybody's got the right / Michael Daugherty -- Epiphany / John Musto -- Every day a little death / Ricky Ian Gordon -- Finishing the hat : 2 pianos / Steve Reich -- I think about you / Paul Moravec -- going... gone / Tania León -- I'm excited ; no, you're not / Jake Heggie -- I'm still here / Frederic Rzewski -- Into the woods / Andy Akiho -- In and out of love / Bernadette Speach -- Johanna in space / Duncan Sheik -- The ladies who lunch / David Rakowski -- A little night fughetta / William Bolcom -- Love is in the air / David Shire -- Merrily we roll along / Nils Vigeland -- No one is alone / Fred Hersch -- Not while I'm around / Thomas Newman -- Notes on "Beautiful" / Rodney Sharman -- Now / Mary Ellen Childs -- Paraphrase : Someone in a tree / Phil Kline -- Pretty women / Mark-Anthony Turnage -- Perpetual happiness / Eve Beglarian -- Send in the clowns / Ethan Iverson -- Sorry-grateful / Derek Bermel -- That old piano roll / Wynton Marsalis -- Sunday in the park : passages / Anthony de Mare -- The worst (empanadas) in London / Ricardo Lorenz -- You could drive a person crazy : schizo scherzo / Eric Rockwell -- Very put together / Mason Bates.
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