File Under M for Music

04.06.20 

George Hider plots a path through a series of recordings that will hopefully all sit somewhat happily together under his rather loose filing system of M for Music.

Focus of this episode is on music tied to moments of civil unrest and/or societal change.

Tracklist

Alabama (Live in San Francisco 1963) – John Coltrane quartet

Mississippi Goddam (Live) – Nina Simone

¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! – by Sergio Ortega and Quilapayún

The People United Will Never Be Defeated! –
Theme: With Determination
Variation 10: Comodo, Recklessly
Variation 19: With Energy
by Frederic Rzewski, performed by Igor Levit

III. Aurora – Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op. 112, “The Year of 1917” – by Dmitri Shostakovich, performed by Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

Étude No. 12 in C Minor ‘Revolutionary Étude’ – by Frédéric Chopin, performed by Maurizio Pollini

Life During Wartime – Talking Heads

Consciously – Cornelius Cardew, performed by Peoples Liberation Music

Summer All Over – Blake Mills

Truly I Live in a time of darkness – Hans Eisler and Bertolt Brecht, translation by Eric Bentley, performed by Karyn Levitt & Eric Ostling

Salve Regina, from Dialogues des Carmélites, by Francis Poulenc performed by Pierre Dervaux & Orchestre du Théâtre National de l’Opéra de Paris

Santa Espina – “The people of Catalonia”

Sevillanos – “The People of Seville”

The Road to Aviles – “The people of Asturias”

from Songs of the Spanish Civil War, Volume 2

Circus ’68 ’69 – Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra

We Shall Overcome – performed by Mahalia Jackson

The lonesome death of Hattie Carroll – Bob Dylan

Sign O’ The Times – Prince

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