Bang on a Can Cantaloupe Music

CD/DVD included!

Martin Bresnick is essential! Cantaloupe Music celebrates the 60th birthday of one of America's leading composers and educators with definitive recordings of his music, releasing them to coincide with 2 concerts of his works at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall this December.

Martin Bresnick has been a leading figure in the education of an entire generation of American musicians, having served as spiritual advisor to many of our most innovative and active composers, including Michael Torke, Evan Ziporyn, and Bang on a Can's Artistic Directors Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe . As a composer, his music has been heard around the world. He is a kind of composer's composer, making music that is subtle and intelligent, thoughtful and meticulously crafted. With a flurry of activity in 2006, including this major CD/DVD release, his 60th Birthday Celebration, and his Carnegie Hall feature concerts on December 5 with the Bang on a Can All-Stars and his own on December 9, The Essential Martin Bresnick aims to bring his name to a new and larger listening public.

The Essential Martin Bresnick contains definitive performances of his greatest works, by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Flux Quartet, and Jupiter Trio; along with an accompanying DVD of a new work "For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise," performed by All-Star pianist Lisa Moore, accompanied by animation by Puppetsweat Theater. This remarkable video project, for pianist with projections of intensely bright and deeply affecting drawings by the English poet William Blake, includes a video essay on the work with the legendary Yale professor and best-selling author Harold Bloom, who calls Moore's performance "inspired, precise, subtly modulated and eloquent."

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