David Dalle
Thursday April 8th, 2021 with David Dalle
Alexina Louie's "Take The Dog Sled" with Inuit throat singers Evie Mark and Akinisie Sivuarapik. Remembering the unimaginable.
Today we hear the premiere recording of Canadian composer Alexina Louie's "Take The Dog Sled" for Inuit throat singers and ensemble. Louie was commissioned by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra to compose a work for their first tour to Nunavik. She was greatly aided in this by Inuit singer Evie Mark who sent her many recordings of Inuit throat singing in which Louie immersed herself in for several months. Afterwards, Louie chose five of these songs to integrate into her work "Take The Dog Sled". Louie says her "piece aims to capture the joy, tenderness, and energy of life in the North as well the mystical quality of the land." "Take The Dog Sled" is a suite in eight movements, five of which are based on the songs provided by Evie Mark and feature the throat singing of Evie Mark and Akinisie Sivuarapik. The work was very well received at its premiere in three communities in Nunavik. This premiere recording features the Esprit Orchestra who performed the work many times with Mark and Sivuarapik.
| Take The Dog Sled i. Tundra Alexina Louie/Evie Mark, Akinisie Sivuarapik, Esprit Orchestra, Alex Pauk - Take The Dog Sled - Canadian Music Centre 
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| Take The Dog Sled ii. Sharpening The Runners On The Dog Sled Alexina Louie/Evie Mark, Akinisie Sivuarapik, Esprit Orchestra, Alex Pauk - Take The Dog Sled - Canadian Music Centre
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| Take The Dog Sled iii. Snow Goose Alexina Louie/Evie Mark, Akinisie Sivuarapik, Esprit Orchestra, Alex Pauk - Take The Dog Sled - Canadian Music Centre
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| Take The Dog Sled iv. Cradle Song Alexina Louie/Evie Mark, Akinisie Sivuarapik, Esprit Orchestra, Alex Pauk - Take The Dog Sled - Canadian Music Centre
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| Take The Dog Sled v. The Mosquito Alexina Louie/Evie Mark, Akinisie Sivuarapik, Esprit Orchestra, Alex Pauk - Take The Dog Sled - Canadian Music Centre
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| Take The Dog Sled vi. Bug Music Alexina Louie/Evie Mark, Akinisie Sivuarapik, Esprit Orchestra, Alex Pauk - Take The Dog Sled - Canadian Music Centre
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| Take The Dog Sled vii. The River Alexina Louie/Evie Mark, Akinisie Sivuarapik, Esprit Orchestra, Alex Pauk - Take The Dog Sled - Canadian Music Centre
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| Take The Dog Sled viii. Great Dog Sled Journey (Keep Going) Alexina Louie/Evie Mark, Akinisie Sivuarapik, Esprit Orchestra, Alex Pauk - Take The Dog Sled - Canadian Music Centre
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| Kele Fatoumata Diawara - Fatou - World Circuit |
| Oumletna Orchestre National de Mauritanie - Orchestre National de Mauritanie - Sahel Sounds |
| Kamlat Orchestre National de Mauritanie - Orchestre National de Mauritanie - Sahel Sounds |
| M'baudy Ali Farka Toure - Green - World Circuit |
| Philipa The Toure-Raichel Collective - The Paris Session - Cumbancha |
| Diaraby The Toure-Raichel Collective - The Paris Session - Cumbancha |
| From End to End The Toure-Raichel Collective - The Paris Session - Cumbancha |
| Hodu The Toure-Raichel Collective - The Paris Session - Cumbancha |
| Recollections of the Past The Cracow Klezmer Band - Remembrance - Tzadik |
| Today is 27 Nisan in the Jewish calendar, which is also Yom Hashoah--Holocaust Remembrance Day--in Israel. We move from the incredible melancholy nostalgia for the lost world of Polish Jews with the Cracow Klezmer Band to the Polish and Soviet composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg. Weinberg graduated from the Warsaw conservatory on the eve of World War II. A Jew, he could be considered one of the "lucky" few ("lucky" he survived, while his family was later murdered in concentration camps). He successfully fled Poland eastward in 1939 and ended up in Minsk, later becoming somewhat of a protégé of Shostakovich, who had an enormous influence on Weinberg's music. Weinberg and Shostakovich lived near each other for years sharing musical ideas, and, like Shostakovich, Weinberg also composed a prodigious series of string quartets, 17 in his case, while Shostakovich composed 16. We hear his 4th string quartet from 1945, riven with wartime anxieties. |
| String Quartet No. 4 Op. 20 Mieczyslaw Weinberg/Quatuor Danel - String Quartets vol. 1 - CPO |
| Simchu Bi Jeruschalajm/E'ise Pele Semer Ensemble - Rescued Treasure - Piranha |
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2:10 PM, April 8th, 2021