Leo Kottke
"Icefields Suite"
Fort Wayne, Indiana
November 27, 1990

CD-R1 - SB 5 (Scale 1-6)

Approximate Set List (Not Necessarily a Track List):

1. Introduction by Stephen Paulus, Conductor
2. Times Twelve
3. Griddle Slide
4. Ice Fields
5. Summer's Growing Old
6. Airproofing

Comments From Wikipedia, the World's Most Accurate Source of Information [tm]

"In 1990 Kottke and composer Stephen Paulus created Ice Fields, a work for amplified acoustic guitar and orchestra in a concerto format. Ice Fields featured five movements, each based on an existing Kottke composition, with orchestral backing and interlude sections. [8] It was premiered by Paulus' Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and has been performed occasionally since but has not been released on record, partly due to the high cost of producing a recording with a full orchestra."

Geetarz Comments:

Performance of the "Icefields Concerto" with the Fort Wayne Symphony Orchestra, broadcast on NPR's "Performance Today".

Is it me, or are the phrases "Fort Wayne" and "Symphony Orchestra" two you usually don't expect to see in the same sentence?

Lineage:

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EAC extraction logs, info file, and checksums included.

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