Pierides
The
Dance Band, Westbrook Music Theatre
Jazzprint, 2001 (1986)
CD £12.99
Mike Westbrook (piano/tuba) with
Kate Westbrook (vocals, horn, piccolo); Peter Whyman
(sax/clar.) Brian Godding (guit., guit synthesiser).
TRACKS:
[1] Parade of the Pierides
[2] Terpischore: Dance
[3] Calliope: Epic
[4] Polyhymnia: Sacred Song
[5] Euterpe: Erotic Music
[6] Thalia-Lindey Hop
[7] Thalia: Pastoral Festival
[8] Melpomene: Tragedy
[9] Erato: Love
[10] Erato: Boogie
[11] Urania: Astronomy
[12] Clio: History
Recorded at Wave Studios, London, in 1986 (originally released on Westbrook
Music, 1986).
The Dance Band was formed in the beginning of 1986, when it toured with
the Extemporary Dance Theatre in Pierides, a music/theatre/dance
piece devised by Kate and Mike Westbrook in collaboration with choreographer
Emilyn Claid.
(The Pierides were the nine muses of Classical Greece.)
