Composers Concordance's 'Compcord@40' Compilation Album Release May 3, 2024

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Source: Robert C. Ford
April 30, 2024
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Composers Concordance has been a booster for local composers, through both its concerts across the city and a record label.
—The Wall Street Journal

CompCord@40 is a 22-track digital-only compilation album featuring a variety of eclectic cross-over new music curated from Composers Concordance Records (CCR) extensive catalogue.

CCR has released 88 albums by well-known artists including jazz luminaries,

Adam Holzman

keyboards

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John Clark

french horn
b.1944

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Keith LeBlanc

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Glen Velez

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Peter Jarvis

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Kristjan Jarvi

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Gene Pritsker

guitar
b.1971

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Dan Cooper

bass

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Debra Kaye

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Shanan Estreicher

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The cover art image and design are by graphic artist Graham Elliott who created the band Living Colour��s Vivid album cover and their music video for ��Glamour Boys.��

Other writers, composers and performers featured on the compilation album include

Roger Aplon

poet / spoken word

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Lynn Bechtold

violin

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Seth Boustead

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Charles Coleman

vocals

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Robert C. Ford

vocals
b.1967

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Patrick Grant

guitar

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Mark Kostabi

piano

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Milica Paranosic

vocals

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CCR is distributed internationally by Naxos. It was founded in 2010 by Gene Pritsker, Dan Cooper, and

Joseph Pehrson

" data-original-title="" title="">Joseph Pehrson under the umbrella of the Composers Concordance, a non-profit presenting organization for contemporary music with a 40-year history of producing concerts in New York City. Composers Concordance was established in 1984 by Patrick Hardish and Joseph Pehrson, advised by

Otto Luening

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Composers Concordance has presented hundreds of concerts at venues including the Museum of Natural History, Austrian Cultural Forum, Barnard College, Bohemian National Hall, Chelsea Art Museum, Cutting Room, Dimenna Center, DROM NYC, Goddard Riverside Community Center, Kosciuszko Foundation, Le Poisson Rouge, MC Gallery, Miller Theater, The New School, 92nd St Y, NYU Loewe Theatre, Shapeshifter Lab, Carnegie Hall-Weill Recital Hall, annual concerts at William Paterson University as part of its New Music Series, and The New School.

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Track Listing

Good Times (Joseph Pehrson); Debussy's Lounge (Gene Pritsker); Song of Light (John Clark); Money, Part II: Need (Gene Pritsker); Coffee Achiever (Adam Holzman); Zvrk (Milica Paranosic); Breaking Butterflies Upon a Wheel (Patrick Grant, Borislav Strulev); The Music Between Us (Charles Coleman music, Robert C. Ford words), All You Shining Stars: II. Arrows (Shanan Estreicher); On Motion: I. The Atom Smasher (Seth Boustead); Snow (Debra Kaye music, Roger Aplon words).