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Swingle Singers Ben Johnson

🔗Gene Ward Smith <genewardsmith@coolgoose.com>

3/16/2006 12:40:06 PM

In this interview with Ben Johnson

http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/interviews/johnston.html

it is mentioned that the Swingle Singers did some of his music on one
of their albums. I can't find it on Amazon; does anyone know what this
refers to?

🔗monz <monz@tonalsoft.com>

3/16/2006 2:39:52 PM

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith" <genewardsmith@...>
wrote:
>
> In this interview with Ben Johnson
>
> http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/interviews/johnston.html
>
> it is mentioned that the Swingle Singers did some of his
> music on one of their albums. I can't find it on Amazon;
> does anyone know what this refers to?

The Swingle Singers commissioned _Sonnets of Desolation_
from Ben Johnston, and recorded it on CRI SD 515.

I don't see it listed anywhere on Amazon either.
And note that you misspelled his last name.

April 15 is the date of the Symposium on Ben Johnston,
a tribute for his 80th birthday, at this year's Microfest
in Pomona CA. I'm hoping to give a presentation using
Tonescape (but i still have to get my abstract to
Bill Alves!).

-monz
http://tonalsoft.com
Tonescape microtonal music software