MARY JANE LEACH

Celestial Fires

Features the New York Treble Singers performing four 8-part pieces for a capella women's voices, Shannon Peet performing Feu de Joie for 7 bassoons, and Barbar Held and Mary Jane Leach performing Trio for Duo for alto flute and voice. "[Her pieces] have an underlying sense of magic and mystery. Unlike some of her more purely intellectual contemporaries, Leach is not merely messing around with the properties of sound; she's exploring (and connecting with) the aesthetic and even spiritual power of sound." Bill Tilland, Option

Item number XI-CD-13; Compact disc $16.00

MJL2

Includes 4BC for 4 bass clarinets playing in a small range, Green Mountain Madrigal for 8 voices inspired by and very loosely based on a madrigal by Monteverdi (Lamento d'Ariana), Lake Eden performed and recorded live by Relache (and which has four sections played in a progressive quasi-rondo form), and Trio for Duo for 2 alto flutes and 2 voices, Barbara Held, alto flute and Mary Jane Leach, voice.

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Besides Leach, collection also includes works by Carter Scholz, Hal Rammel, Ricardo Dal Farra, Larry Polansky, John Duesenberry, Robert Carl, Ellen Band, Stephen Dressler, Yat-Kha and Frances White.

on Concerts By Composers

A sixty minute tape of excerpts from concert productions at Experimental Intermedia Foundation from 1986 through 1988. This series of concerts has been produced continuously since 1973. The series boasts over six hundred performances and represents more than three hundred composers and artists. This video tape contains two to four minute samples of the work of nineteen composers: Warren Burt, Joseph Celli, Nicolas Collins, David First, Ellen Fullman, Malcolm Goldstein, Daniel Goode, Shelley Hirsch with David Weinstein, Earl Howard, The Hub (Chris Brown, John Bischoff, Mark Trayle, Tim Perkis, Scott Gresham-Lancaster, Phill Stone), Peter Kotik, Guy Klucevsek, Ron Kuivila, Mary Jane Leach with Camilla Hoitenga, Christian Marclay, Phill Niblock, Ned Rothenberg, Elliott Sharp and Susan Stenger.

Mary Jane Leach

A composer and performer, originally from Vermont, who has lived in New York since the mid-1970's. Her compositions explore the physicality of sound and she carefully works with the timbres of instruments, exploiting the unique characteristics of each instrument, creating combination, difference and interference tones. Her compositions have been performed throughout the world. She has received grants from the NEA, New York State Council for the Arts and the Cary Trust. On the radio, her music has been featured on First Art, NPR, CBC (Canada), Radio Cultura in Sào Paulo, Radio 3 in Brussels, Radio Bremen and Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Germany.

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