John Kennedy: One Body CD

Bruce Rameker, countertenor and baritone/Essential Music/John Kennedy, conductor

This CD is on the Santa Fe New Music label, marketed by Santa Fe Music Group.

Contemporary composer and conductor John Kennedy has led his New York-based Essential Music ensemble at the Spoleto Festival USA, the Lincoln Center Festival, and the New York City Ballet. His new work, One Body, portrays a view of the earth as a single living entity, with texts taken from the writings of Martin Luther King, Walt Whitman, St. Augustine, Joy Harjo, Gary Snyder, Kenneth Patchen and others.