Saturday, January 2, 2010

Rescue, 5 July 1997

Rescue Gala Performance in aid of War Child Part of Laurie Anderson's Meltdown Royal Festival Hall, London Saturday, 5th July 1997 First Set 01 Yungchen Lhamo - Lam Dorje Chang 02 Youngchen Lhamo - Om Mani Padme Hum 03 Yungchen Lhamo with Bill T. Jones - Ari-Lo 04 Salman Rushdie - Reading from The Satanic Verses 05 Robert Wilson and Christopher Knowles - American Planes, Wind 06 Lou Reed - They're Taking Her Children Away 07 Lou Reed - Talking Book 08 Lou Reed - Into the Divine 09 Lou Reed - Rescue Night 10 Michael Nyman - uncredited piece - incomplete 

 Second Set 01 Electra Strings - Company (Philip Glass) 02 Laurie Anderson - Civil Wars Act 5, Scene C (Philip Glass) 03 Ryuichi Sakamoto Electra Strings - Untitled 01a 04 Robert Wilson - Civils Wars, Act 5, Scene B (Philip Glass) 05 Hector Zazou - False 06 Hector Zazou - Brave 07 Laurie Anderson - When the Jackals Sing

Much of this music was - and still is - otherwise unfamiliar to me. I have titled the pieces as best I can based on the programme, but apologies if I have got anything wrong. 

New link 4 March 2021

3 comments:

Stv63 said...

Looks inneresting but cant find the links?

Cheers for these boots and keep up the good work.

Phil said...

I wondered why it hadn't been getting any downloads! Thanks for the heads up.

Phil said...

Sorry, I fogot to add a link for the programme.