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Brady, Tim / Three Cities In The Life Of Dr. Norman Bethune

Album:	Three Cities In The Life Of Dr. Norman Bethune		Collection:	General
Artist:	Brady, Tim		Added:	08/2006
Label:	Ambiances Magnetique

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Add Date:

2006-08-27

Pull Date:

2006-10-29

Charts:

Classical/Experimental

Week Ending:	29 Oct	3 Sep
Airplays:	1	1

Recent Airplay

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Fri, 27 Oct 06:

Wedge
Memory Select: guest Myra Melford

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Tue, 29 Aug 06:

Tron
Radio Of Imagination

Album Review

Ragnar of Ravensfjord Reviewed 2006-10-02
New composer/chamber opera with male baritone, guitar, percussion & sax. All based around the life of the Canadian doctor and humanitarian active in the 20’s & 30’s. Interesting, compelling and often cinematic. ((((1)))) Great perussion, off-kilter piano & string elements. ((2)) Nice instrumentation but the vocals are really overdramatic. ((3)) Mostly mellow strings and solem, slow story telling vocals. (((4))) Lots of random percussion & strings and often operatic vocals. (((5))) Not too different from the last track but with some interesting vocal/narration bits. ((6)) Very minimal not a lot going on here. ((7)) Solem & builds in different direction but doesn’t stand out well enough. ((((8)))) Character narration “en español” all overlapped and argumentative. Later gets kinda jazzy & more narrative in English. Excellent. (((9))) Somewhat bombastic & loud, big on histronic, operatic vocals. ((((10)))) Cinematic, semi-jazzy piano & strings interlude (((11))) Minimal & occasionally filled with random experimental bits. Some nice ambient & string manipulating sounds in the mix. ((12)) More narrative operatic/off-broadway feeling. Almost entirely vocal –led. ((13)) More histronic, story-telling stuff. Nothing innovative or terribly interesting. ((14)) Mellancholic and extremely literal translation “I’ve have al-read-y submitted reports from February and Mar-ch”. Huh? ((15)) Etheral string, minimal vocals which don’t seem to move anywhere.

Track Listing

1.	Prelude: Three Cities - Montréal (1935-1936) Part 1		8.	The Evacuation Of Malaga, Pamphlet, Feb. 7, 1937 (N. Bethune) - Madrid (1936-193
2.	Poem, An Immigrant (Dorothy Livesay, Montreal) - Montréal (1935-1936) Part 2		9.	Poem, I Come From Cuatro Caminos, Jan. 1937 (N. Bethune) - Madrid (1936-1937) Pa
3.	Incantation 1, Letter, Nov. 6, 1935 (N. Bethune) - Montréal (1935-1936) Part 3		10.	Prelude - Chin Ch'a Chi (1938-1939) Part 1
4.	Poem, Depression Suite (Dorothy Livesay, Montreal) - Montréal (1935-1936) Part 4		11.	Poem, Untitled (Lu Xun, China) - Chin Ch'a Chi (1938-1939) Part 2
5.	Letter, Oct. 8, 1935 (N. Bethune) - Montréal (1935-1936) Part 5		12.	Incantation 2, Letter, Aug. 15, 1939 (N. Bethune) - Chin Ch'a Chi (1938-1939) Pa
6.	Prelude: El Segador (Songs From The Spanish Civil War) - Madrid (1936-1937) Part		13.	Poem, Autumn 1939, (Dorothy Livesay, Montreal) - Chin Ch'a Chi (1938-1939) Part
7.	Poem, The Defense Of Madrid, The Defense Of Catalonia, (Rafael Alberti, Madrid)		14.	Reprise, Letters, Aug. 15, 1939 And July 1, 1939 (N. Bethune) - Chin Ch'a Chi (1
			15.	Final Letter, Nov. 11, 1939 (N. Bethune) - Chin Ch'a Chi (1938-1939) Part 6