Soft Sounds and Night Music

Editorial Reviews
Stanley Kubrick
"You have woven your magic spell"

Victor Borge
"You should be highly lauded!"

Album Description
A WORLD OF BEAUTY AND HAUNTING MELODIES

Maestro Leniado-Chira has written, performed, conducted, and personally chosen for his 5 new CD albums music with an emotional resonance and impact. Romantic and classical, the live-recorded music evokes another world. The listener enters into a world of peace, love, harmony, and tranquility.

BIO
Joseph Leniado-Chira has been active for over thirty years, conducting 11 professional symphony and chamber orchestras, operas, ballets and brass ensembles. As a professor and guest conductor, he has worked extensively with young musicians. He has also composed over forty works for solo, chamber, instrumental, choral and large orchestral groups which have been performed all over the world by leading musicians.

Maestro Leniado-Chira's conducting background is extensive, including appearances with the Joffrey Ballet Orchestra, Hartford Symphony, Miami Philharmonic, the Aspen and Tanglewood Festivals, WNYC American Music Festival, the Chira String and American Chamber Orchestra and other orchestras in Europe. As founder- producer and music director of Symphony on The Sound, he conducted their Presidential yacht, which received national radio and televison coverage. He has produced and conducted on TV and radio as well as directed and administered youth programs. In addition, he was music advisor to Stanley Kubrick on the "2001: A Space Odyssey" film.

Mr. Leniado-Chira has been active in the National Association for American Composers and Conductors. As seminar and program director, he instituted a series of seminars by world renowned musicians for the association. He has lectured extensively on conducting and music in Europe and Asia, including a visit to China, where he met with the leading Chinese conductors.

Leniado-Chira has received 19 medals in music competition , 5 conducting scholarships and fellowships including a conducting fellowship at the American Symphony Orchestra League's Asilomar Institute Project, the Harvard Dictionary Music Award and the VFW Award in music. He began conducting on radio at 14 and later studied, conducted and taught at the Juilliard School. He also conducted at the University of Miami and performed classical piano for the Yale University benefit concerts, performing many of his compositions. Included among his many appearances was a concert before the late President and Mrs. J F Kennedy. At the Bayreuth Festival, he recorded for the Deutsche Grammaphone Gesellshaft. He is also listed in the International Who's Who in Music and Musicians, and his music is in the collection of Isreal's Feher Jewish Music Center at Beth Hatefutsoth Museum. He is a member of ASCAP and the Bohemian's Club of New York.

Soft Sounds and Night Music

Tracks:

Go All The Way - Raspberries
Green-Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf
Rock Me Gently - Andy Kim
Too Late To Turn Back Now - Cornelius Brothers/Sister Rose
Let's Stay Together - Al Green
Proud Mary - Ike & Tina Turner
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce
Joy To The World - Three Dog Night
Rich Girl - Hall & Oates
Lonesome Loser - Little River Band
My Sharona - The Knack
Heart Of Glass - Blondie

Crumb: Songs, Drones And Refrains Of Death

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For Crumb enthusiasts

Crumb: Songs, Drones And Refrains Of Death

Manufacturer: Bridge
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Complete Crumb Edition 9; Ancient Voices of Children, Madrigals Books I-IV, Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik
Crumb: Zeitgeist, Music for a Summer Evening
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Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 6 - Echoes of Time and the River, Gnomic Variations, Four Nocturnes, Lux Aeterna
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ASIN: B000003GIM
Release Date: 2001-06-01

Tracks:

Songs, Drones And Refrains Of Death: Part One, Refrain One: I. The Guitar/Refrain Two: II. Casida... - George Crumb/David Starobin/Donald Palma/Aleck Karis/Daniel Druckman/Eric Charlston
Songs, Drones And Refrains Of Death: Part Two, Refrain Three: III. Song Of The Rider/Refrain Four... - George Crumb/David Starobin/Donald Palma/Aleck Karis/Daniel Druckman/Eric Charlston
A Little Ste For Christmas: 1. The Visitation - Lambert Orkis
A Little Ste For Christmas: 2. Berceuse For The Infant Jesu - Lambert Orkis
A Little Ste For Christmas: 3. The Shepherd's Noel - Lambert Orkis
A Little Ste For Christmas: 4. Adoration Of The Magi - Lambert Orkis
A Little Ste For Christmas: 5. Nativity Dance - Lambert Orkis
A Little Ste For Christmas: 6. Canticle Of The Holy Night - Lambert Orkis
A Little Ste For Christmas: 7. Carol Of The Bells - Lambert Orkis
Apparition: I. The Night In Silence Under Many A Star - Jan DeGaetani/Gilbert Kalish
Apparition: Vocalise 1: Summer Sounds - Jan DeGaetani/Gilbert Kalish
Apparition: II. When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd - Jan DeGaetani/Gilbert Kalish
Apparition: III. Dark Mother Always Gliding With Soft Feet - Jan DeGaetani/Gilbert Kalish
Apparition: Vocalise 2: Invocation To The Dark Angel - Jan DeGaetani/Gilbert Kalish
Apparition: IV. Approach Strong Deliveress! - Jan DeGaetani/Gilbert Kalish
Apparition: Vocalise 3: Death Carol ('Song Of The Nightbird') - Jan DeGaetani/Gilbert Kalish
Apparition: V. Come Lovely And Soothing Death - Jan DeGaetani/Gilbert Kalish
Apparition: VI. The Night In Silence Under Many A Star - Jan DeGaetani/Gilbert Kalish

Customer Reviews:

For Crumb enthusiasts.......2006-11-19

The three works on this disc are somewhat "typical" Crumb. "Songs, Drones, and Refrains of Death" is not Crumb's greatest work, even if it has his signature gestures -- a combination of speaking and singing during songs, shouting from the percussion players, among other techniques. It's a little contrived and more than a little dated (it's unmistakably 1960s avant-garde), but it's not a bad work. The recording's vocal performance by both the ensemble and the soloist sounds very muddled, which is unfortunate.

The Suite for Christmas has never been my favorite work. Crumb's other works for piano, such as the Makrokosmos books, are so much better it makes this work really look kind of anomalously amateur, even though I'm sure it's extremely hard to play. Orkis makes the most of this work, it's as good as I've ever heard it.

Apparition is by far the best work on this disc. It focuses on death just like the Songs and Drones, but Apparition also has some of the most delicate music found in any of Crumb's works. And the singing is sharp and clear, even with the transparent textures of the music. It uses Walt Whitman's Death Carol as its text and really captures the mysticism, light, and darkness that surrounds death that Whitman conveys in his poem.

Overall, it's a good disc. It's definitely a great disc for people who like Crumb, but I know I wouldn't have explored much more of his music if this were my introduction.

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Relaxing!
It really does lower your heart rate
Soothing, centering, calming..

Twilight

Manufacturer: Sally Wood
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005UJTC
Release Date: 2001-11-23

Tracks:

Sicilienne by Faure
Pavane by Faure
Trio for Two Flutes and Harp by Berlioz
Romance by Glinka
Canzona by Bertona
Siciliano by Bach
En Bateau by Debussy
Arioso by Bach
The Swan by Saint-Saens
Intermezzo by Mascagni
Thais Meditation by Massenet
Entr'acte from Carmen by Bizet
1st Gymnopedie by Satie

Album Description

Meditative Music selected and arranged to lower the listener's heart rate.

Customer Reviews:

Relaxing!.......2002-08-13

I found this CD pure magic. The music is relaxing and I would recommend it to everyone. I listen to this cd at the end of a stressfull day and I relax. Highly recomended.

It really does lower your heart rate.......2002-08-12

This CD says that it's supposed to lower your heart rate and it really does! It's also totally pleasant to listen to. A very good arrangement of some excellent music.

Soothing, centering, calming.........2002-08-12

I love this uplifting CD! I turn it on just as I am getting into bed and the beautiful and ethereal sounds lull me into tranquil dreams. Listening to Zenaida has proved to be very addictive, a lovely ritual I've happily incorporated into my daily life. I recommend the CD as a wonderful gift for anyone needing a refreshing antidote to the stresses we all face, for anyone you love! In the shadow of recent world events the sounds of Zenaida provide a touchstone, us a reminder of unseen light during dark times.