Metropolis Symphony, Deus ex Machina : G.Guerrero / Nashville Symphony

MICHAEL DAUGHERTY (b. 1954)
Metropolis Symphony for Orchestra (1988-93)
(Lex; Krypton; MXYZPTLK; Oh, Lois! Red Cape Tango)

Deus ex Machina for Piano and Orchestra (2007)
(Fast Forward (Di andata veloce); Train of Tears; Night Steam)

Mary Kathryn Van Osdale - Violin
Erik Gratton - Flute
Ann Richards - Flute/Piccolo
Terrence Wilson - piano
Nashville Symphony Orchestra / Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor

Digital Recording: 2007, 2008

Inspired by the fiftieth anniversary of Superman’s first appearance in the comics, Metropolis Symphony has been performed by orchestras all over the world. Hailed by the London Times as a “Symphonie Fantastique for our times,” Metropolis Symphony is a musical response to the myth of Superman, expressing the energies, ambiguities, paradoxes, and wit of American popular culture. Deus ex Machina is a piano concerto inspired by trains of the future and past: Fast Forward re-creates the machine-like rhythms of modern trains admired by the Italian futurists; Train of Tears recalls Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train; Night Steam evokes O. Winston Link’s historic photographs of steam locomotives rumbling and whistling their way into extinction. ( NAXOS )