Desert Songs CD

Desert Songs CD Cover A gem of creative collaboration, Desert Songs is as uniquely descriptive of the Sonoran Desert as the animals it depicts. This song cycle, enhanced by an array of intriguing and distinctive percussion instruments, allow the listener to visualize the racing lizard, the coiled rattlesnake, the buzzard gliding above the desert floor, the Cactus Wren safely ensconced among the cactus thorns, the old Desert Tortoise lumbering across the vast open spaces, the coyotes calling from hill to hill.

The nine songs were composed by G. Bradley Bodine under a commission from the Arizona Repertory Singers, Gary Cook, the Animas Music Festival of Durango, Colorado, and John Pennington. The words are from a book entitled Desert Voices, by local Tucson author, Byrd Baylor.

The CD is available at the Tucson business listed below, or by calling the ARS office at (520) 792-8141.

Kid’s Center at 1725 N. Swan Rd. Phone 322-5437
Tohona Chul Park 7366 N. Paseo del Norte
Arizona Inn 2200 E. Elm Street
Tucson Botanical Gardens 2150 N. Alvernon Way
Tucson Museum of Art 140 N. Main Ave.
Second Look Books 180 W. Continental Rd., Green Valley


Selections

Spadefoot Toad Sample (160 Kb, 20 seconds)
Rattlesnake
Buzzard

Recorded in April 2004 at Holsclaw Recital Hall, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

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