CompCord@40” Compilation Album Release on May 3, 2024

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May 3, 2024
12:00 am
Not Funded by New Music USA

New York City new-music organization Composers Concordance celebrates its 40-year anniversary with a compilation album of eclectic tracks from its record label Composers Concordance Records. “CompCord@40” is a 22-track digital-only compilation album featuring a variety of eclectic cross-over new music:
● The cover art image and design are by graphic artist Graham Elliott who created the band Living Colour’s “Vivid” album cover and their music video for “Glamour Boys”
● Composers Concordance Records (CCR) was founded in 2010 by Gene Pritsker, Dan Cooper, and Joseph Pehrson, and is distributed internationally by Naxos
● CCR is under the umbrella of the Composers Concordance organization
● CCR has released 88 albums by well-known artists including jazz greats, Adam Holzman, David
Taylor; Hip-Hop artist Keith LeBlanc; percussionists Glen Velez and Peter Jarvis; conductor Kristjan Järvi and The Absolute Ensemble, and composers Gene Pritsker, Dan Cooper, Debra
Kaye, and Shanan Estreicher
● Composers Concordance is a non-profit presenting organization for contemporary music with a
40-year history of producing concerts in New York City
● Composers Concordance was established in 1984 by Patrick Hardish and Joseph Pehrson,
advised by electronic music pioneer Otto Luening
● Composers Concordance has presented hundreds of concerts at venues including the Museum
of Natural History, Austrian Cultural Forum, Barnard College, Bohemian National Hall, Chelsea Art Museum, Cutting Room, Dimenna Center, Drom NYC, Goddard Riverside Community Center, Kosciuszko Foundation, Le Poisson Rouge, Gallery MC, Miller Theater, The New School, 92nd St Y, NYU Loewe Theatre, Shapeshifter Lab, Carnegie Hall – Weill Recital Hall, annual concerts at William Paterson University as part of its New Music Series, and The New School, among others.

Full track listing:
1. Good Times: Joseph Pehrson
2. Debussy’s Lounge: Gene Pritsker
3. Song of Light: John Clark
4. Paradoxes: Gene Pritsker
5. Coffee Achiever: Adam Holzman
6. Zvrk: Milica Paranosic
7. Breaking Butterflies Upon a Wheel: Patrick Grant
8. 5 Songs from William Blake: No. 2. Tiger! Tiger!: David Taylor, Joe Roccisano, Virgil Thomson
9. Sofa No. 2: Frank Zappa
10. Sarastro Turf: Dan Cooper
11. Beat Up Squad: KostaBlanc Kostabi/LeBlanc
12. Oblivion (Arr. For Violin & Piano): Astor Piazzolla
13. Rite Through an Eclectic Spectrum (After I. Stravinsky): II. Spring Swing [Live]: Gene
Pritsker/Igor Stravinsky
14. Away/Home 1.2: Lynn Bechtold
15. Concerto for Frame Drums & Percussion Sextet, Op. 41: Peter Jarvis Listen Here 16. Kalinka (After Larionov): Alexander Belyaev
17. Berlin Suite: I. Overture: Gene Pritsker
18. Guitar Sonata: III. Danza: José Ardévol
19. The Music Between Us: Charles Coleman, Robert C. Ford
20. All You Shining Stars: II. Arrows: Shanan Estreicher
21. On Motion: I. The Atom Smasher: Seth Boustead
22. Snow: Debra Kaye, Roger Aplon