Program 847: Somewhat Sacred
KALW Broadcast Date: November 9, 2025 | Host: Devin King
This Music from Other Minds features music and poetry that is somewhat sacred and thereby dwells on the musical material of sacred music and how it might suggest the sacred, even if it might not, necessarily, be explicitly religious. Some of the selections use the instruments of sacred music, some selections have lyrics that are somehow ecstatic or religious in temperament, some selections refer to sacred music, and one selection was simply recorded in a church. This program features music and poems by: Frederic Rzewski, Daniel Strong Godfrey, Isaac Jarnot, Áine O’Dwyer, Alvin Lucier, and Robert Ashley.
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Title: The Little Lord of Misrule
Composer: Áine O’Dwyer
Recording Title: Music for Church Cleaners Vol. 1 & Vol. 2
Recording Label: MIE Music
Catalog Number: MIE 028
Title: The Church (After the Fact)
Composer: Robert Ashley
Recording Title: Perfect Lives
Recording Label: Lovely Music
Catalog Number: 4917.3
Title: Right Speech / Brooklyn Anchorage / The Emperor Wu Poem / O Life Force of supernalness… / Song of the Chinchilla / Right Mind / The Bridge
Poet: Isaac Jarnot
Recording Title: Reading for the Burning Deck 40th Anniversary Celebration, Providence, May 2001
Recording Label: Penn Sound
Title: Vespers
Composer: Alvin Lucier
Recording Title: Vespers
Recording Label: Blume
Catalog Number: 017
Title: De Profundis
Composer: Frederic Rzewski
Recording Title: De Profundis
Recording Label: hat Art
Catalog Number: 6134
Title: Toward Light
Composer: Daniel Strong Godfrey
Performer: Cassat String Quartet and Eliot Fisk
Recording Title: Toward Light
Recording Label: New Focus
Catalog Number: 467
Title: Harold Camping’s Lament
Composer: Áine O’Dwyer
Recording Title: Music for Church Cleaners Vol. 1 & Vol. 2
Recording Label: MIE Music
Catalog Number: MIE 028
