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| Latest release by William Allaudin Mathieu, pianist, composer, teacher, recording artist, and author. 'A Parrot, Three Fish, and a Donkey' is a modern piece with a medieval text, and medieval sensibilities have worked their way into the musical fabric: the small percussion instruments, the instrumental range lying (for the most part) within the range of the human voice, and, most of all, the harmony, which is a kind of modulating modality. Inspired by the universality of Rumi's poems, Mathieu felt especially free in this piece to borrow from many centuries of Eastern and Western harmonic practice. |
ARTISTS W.A. Mathiew (composer); Thomas Buckner, baritone; Joseph Kubera, piano; Devi Mathieu, soprano; Suzanne Elder-Wallace, alto; Bob Afifi, alto flute; Shira Kammen, iola; Daniel Kennedy, frame drums |
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