Episode 42 - 1984: Bernard Rands, Canti del Sole
Hearing The Pulitzers
English - May 12, 2023 01:31 - 28 minutes - 64.4 MBMusic History Music Music Commentary Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this episode, Dave and Andrew discuss a composer associated with New Romanticism. But is that label reductive or does it accurately describe Bernard Rands's music? How about this song cycle based on poems about the sun?
If you'd like more information about Rands, we recommend:
Will Robin's article "Horizons ’83, Meet the Composer, and
New Romanticism’s New Marketplace" in Musical Quarterly, Vol. 102, nos. 2-3 (2019): 158–99.
Benjamin Rivera's thesis "An Introduction to the Musical Language of Bernard Rands, as Demonstrated in Canti d'Amor" from Roosevelt University in 2005.
Bruce Duffie's interview with Bernard Rands.