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COPYRIGHT 2001 MIT Press Journals
Robert Ashley, John Bischoff, Marghreta Cordero, Nick Didkovsky, Barbara Golden, Joan LaBarbara, Elodie Lauten, Maggi Payne, Larry Polansky, Brian Reinbolt, Laetitia Sonami, Susan Stone: Melody Sumner Carnahan, The Time Is Now
Compact disc with 80-page booklet from Burning Books, 1997, FP20; available from Frog Peak Music, P.O. Box 1052, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03766, USA; telephone/ fax (603) 448-8837; electronic mail fp@frogpeak.org; World Wide Web www.frogpeak.org
The Time is Now is another of the interesting collaborative projects featuring musical interpretations of text by a selected author sponsored and published by Frog Peak Music. As a collection of pieces by composers of different experience levels and aesthetic sensibilities, The Time is Now, like its predecessor, The Frog Peak Collaborations Project (based on a text by Chris Mann), provides a fascinating and insightful survey of the music-makers' creative thoughts and processes while also providing a critical introduction to the written work.
Santa Fe author Melody Sumner Carnahan explains in her notes the principal origin of the CD: "I didn't like the sound of my own voice.... Most of my friends were musicians. ... One day I got the idea...
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