Michael Daugherty - Bay of Pigs; Gee's Bend; TROYJAM

Michael DAUGHERTY (b.1954)

Bay of Pigs (2006), for Classical Guitar amd Strings

Gee's Bend (2009), for Electric Guitar and Orchestra

TROYJAM (2008) for narrator and Orchestra

Manuel Barrueco (Classical Guitar)

D.J.Sparr (Electric Guitar)

Michael Lippert (Narrator)

Anne Carson (Librettist)

Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra

Neal Gittleman

Recorded Live at the Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center, Dayton, Ohio, USA. *Nov 1 & 2 2013, **March 24, 25, 26, 2011 and ***Nov. 9 & 10 2012

This recording features three imaginative and dynamic works by GRAMMY® Award-winning composer Michael Daugherty. The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra gives exciting performances under the baton of long-time music director Neal Gittleman, joined by classical guitarist Manuel Barrueco, electric guitarist D.J. Sparr, and narrator Michael Lippert. Bay of Pigs for Classical Guitar and Strings evokes the bittersweet and turbulent events of past and present Cuba. Gee’s Bend for Electric Guitar and Orchestra is a tapestry of syncopated grooves, slow blues and spirituals inspired by the quilts and African- American women quilters of Gee’s Bend, Alabama. TROYJAM for Narrator and Orchestra, with a poetic libretto by Anne Carson, retells the story of the Trojan War from Homer’s Iliad, but with a twist: the Greeks, led by the “lyre-strumming” Achilles against the Trojans led by Hector, decide to play the instruments of the orchestra in a wild jam session to make music, not war.