
New Music from Bowling Green, Vol. 9
First Prize: 2024 American Prize Competition for Best CD of the Year (college/university division).
The Bowling Green Philharmonia continues its unique approach of having composers speak about their compositions. This ninth volume in the series includes works by Mikel Kuehn, Shulamit Ran, Gabriela Frank, Louis Karchin, and Augusta Read Thomas. Conductor Emily Freeman Brown has spearheaded this important series that includes works written for the Bowling Green Philharmonia. A graduate of Eastman, Brown has appeared as a conductor with orchestras in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and South America. Her recordings appear on the Naxos, Linn, and Opus One as well as Albany Record
Included Works
Four Songs on Poems of Seamus Heaney (orchestra version) | soprano and orchestra (2019) |
“Louis Karchin’s Four Songs on Poems of Seamus Heaney are dramatic and full of ‘shifting brilliances’ (to quote a line from one of the poems), full of leaping vocal lines easily managed by the excellent soprano Heather Buck.”