Bernadette Speach

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Without Borders
mode 16 Bernadette SPEACH: "Without Borders" - chamber & solo works performed by Bowery Ensemble, Jan WIlliams, Michael Pugliese, Anthony de Mare; Jeffrey Schanzer, Oliver Lake, Thulani Davis, Myra Melford, etc. Composer Supervised ... Read More
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Reflections
mode 105  Bernadette SPEACH: "Reflections". When It Rains, Llueve for piano;  Viola for viola & piano; Trio des Trois III for viola, cello & piano; Chosen Voices for prepared guitar & toy piano; Angels in the Snow for piano; Woman without Adornment for reciter, voice, guitars, bass & piano; les ondes pour quatre for string quartet - Arditti Quartet, Anthony de Mare, piano; Rozanna, viola; Lois Martin, viola; David Heiss, cello; Jeffrey Schanzer, guitars; Bernadette ... Read More
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Arditti Quartet
The Arditti QuartetIrvine Arditti, Graeme Jennings (vlns), Ralf Ehlers (vla), Rohan de Saram (vc)The Arditti Quartet enjoys a world-wide reputation for their spirited and technically refined interpretations of contemporary and earlier 20th century music. Several hundred string quartets and other chamber works have been written for the ensemble since its foundation by first violinist Irvine Arditti in 1974. These works have left a permanent mark on 20th century repertoire and have given the Arditti Quartet ... Read More

Thulani Davis
Thulani DavisThulani Davis's work as a writer includes theater, journalism, fiction, and poetry. She is the author of two novels, Maker of Saints and 1959, and Malcolm X, The Photographs (1993). She has written and narrated several television and radio documentaries. Ms. Davis is the librettist for three operas: Amistad (1997); X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X (1986) with Anthony Davis, and The E & O Line (1991), with Anne LeBaron (excerpts of which ... Read More

Michael Pugliese
Michael Pugliese One of the great percussionists, Michael had a close artistic relationship with John Cage. This led to his recording of Cage's ETUDES BOREALES on Mode's first release, made at the suggestion of Cage and recorded under his supervision. Michael gained prominence as a long time touring musician with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company where he played alongside David Tudor and Takehisa Kosugi. Pugliese died on the morning of 4 November in New York ... Read More

Jeffrey Schanzer
Jeffrey SchanzerJeffrey Schanzer is a composer and guitarist involved in a wide variety of music, ranging from fully notated to fully improvised.  He has studied composition with Morton Feldman and Anthony Davis and guitar with Oswald Rantucci.  No More In Thrall, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, where his father was a prisoner, performed by the Sirius String Quartet with percussionist Kevin Norton, was released on the ... Read More

Bernadette Speach
Bernadette SpeachBernadette Speach's work as a composer embraces a variety of styles, and includes solo, chamber and orchestral works. Ms. Speach and poet/writer Thulani Davis have worked together extensively since 1986. Telepathy Suite, their first collaborative settings, were released on the CD, Without Borders (mode ), which also included chamber works by Ms. Speach performed by the Bowery Ensemble, Anthony de Mare, Leonard Krech, Michael Pugliese, Jeffrey Schanzer and Jan Williams.She has performed as pianist ... Read More