Composer's name is listed where notable (i.e. Classical Performance, Jazz Performance).
For more information on any of the rock, pop and Jazz music featured on this program, I frequently utilize AllMusic , an excellent free database holding a huge plethora of information about music and the artists that make it.
| Composer | Performer | Title | Genre | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
As I Lay Dying |
Forever |
Metal, Thrash, Metalcore |
Metal Blade, 2003 |
In that one moment I gave my heart away.... | |
Through Struggle |
Metal Blade, 2005 |
Only through struggle have I found rest.... | |||
The Sound of Truth |
Metal Blade, 2007 |
We have all heard truth that sounds good to our ears | |||
Falling Upon Deaf Ears |
Metal Blade, 2003 |
All my strength cannot save you if you are unwilling to help yourself | |||
Meaning in Tragedy |
Metal Blade, 2005 |
If we do not learn from their mistakes, we have already lost | |||
Within Destruction |
Metal Blade, 2007 |
All that is hope within destruction comes from you, for I have fallen.... | |||
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Charles Mingus (b), Eric Dolphy (bass clarinet, flute), Clifford Jordan (ts), Jaki Byard (p), Dannie Richmond (d) |
Meditations on Integration |
Jazz, post-bop |
Revenge!, 1996 |
Dolphy passed away about a month later from complications of diabetes. This was a particularly inspired performance, but of course Mingus demanded nothing less. | |
Erik Satie |
Claire Chevallier, piano |
Quatre Ogives |
Classical, post-Romantic era, late 19th century French |
Zigzag Territories, 2008 |
Written in 1886 and published in 1889, Satie named the set of 4 piano miniatures after the curve the forms the outline of a pointed gothic arch (such as that found in the Notre Dame cathedral, which are said to be part of the inspiration for the piece). Satie wanted the piece to evoke the sonorities of a pipe organ playing in such a space. |
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Rush |
La Villa Strangiato |
Rock, Progressive |
Mercury, 1978 |
an exercise in Self-Indulgence | |
Natural Science |
Mercury, 1980 |
Science, like Nature, must also be tamed With a view towards its preservation.... | |||
Red Barchetta |
Mercury, 1981 |
Sundays I'd elude the 'Eyes' and hop the Turbine freight, to far outside the Wire, where my white-haired uncle waits... | |||
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Underoath |
Desperate Times, Desperate Measures |
Metal, Hardcore, Metalcore |
Solid State, 2008 |
I've been crawling around in the dark for a while.... | |
Breathing in a New Metality |
I'm the desperate, and you're the savior... | ||||
The Only Survivor Was Miraculously Unharmed |
The silence is killing me.... | ||||
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Lamb of God |
Set to Fail |
Epic, 2009 |
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What I've Become |
Epic, 2004 |
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Grace |
Epic, 2009 |
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