We’re back producing another season of radio programs for KALW with:

The Minimal Piano: Piano music by David Toub and Ann Southam.

David Toub: Cosmic Heat (from the Rig Veda); The Sick Face of the Bowels of the Earth (Sakatora Hagiwara); Thought (Walt Whitman); from TEXTBOOK — Steve Layton, Piano Realization. (Available as  iTunes and eMusic downloads).

David Toub’s TEXTBOOK, completed in 1987 but realized in 2006 by Steve Layton from Toub’s MIDI score, reminds you of Philip Glass, but without the romanticism. We’ll hear three sections from this 2 hour piece.

Ann Southam: Noisy River, Fidget Creek, Fiddle Creek, Commotion Creek
Christina Petrowska Quilico, piano; CentreDisques 14109 (2009)

Canadian composer Ann Southam’s pieces invoke the sound patterns of rivers and creeks, recently released on Centredisques.