This CD has pieces with an auctioneer, a Kentucky farm with birds & clover, a jazz dancer, a quivering, vibrating, sexually tinged piece full of women saying supplication, a saint dying in flames, a drum piece about frustration, mother/daughter miscommunication, a pipe organ, and punk rap with overtones of yoga. Many of Anderson's compositions from 1973-1979 use words or parts of words to make either all or part of the music. Sometimes the music is derived from the words. Some of it is considered to be part of the genre known as text-sound.

Beth Anderson is a composer of avant-garde works that have been performed all around the world and that have brought her much acclaim; she is also active as a critic, pianist and vocalist. Ms. Anderson earned half a PhD at New York University, majored in piano performance at the University of Kentucky from 1966-68 and earned her BA in music from the University of California in 1971. She studied further at Mills College in Oakland, California and earned her MFA in piano performance, 1973 and her MA in composition, 1974. She was co-editor of the publication Ear from 1973-79 and is currently a teacher at the Greenwich House Music School, New York. Over the years, Ms. Anderson has studied with Robert Ashley, Larry Austin, John Cage, and Terry Riley, among others. She is a pioneer in the field of text-sound music, which uses words and phonemes to make a kind of vocal-percussive music.

Kyle Gann's American Composer feature about Beth Anderson can be read at http://www.jamesarts.com/banderson.htm. Her own description of her music can be read at NewMusicBox - http://www.newmusicbox.org/page.nmbx?id=53hf02. More information about Ms. Anderson is available at her website http://www.beand.com/.

Program

Torero Piece

Tower of Power

Peachy Keen-O

Ocean Motion Mildew Mind

Country Time

Yes Sir Ree

I Can't Stand It

Joan

Ode

The disk is available at CD stores, or online from Pogus at http://www.pogus.com/.

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