Katrina Ballads by Ted Hearne

Allan Kozinn of The New York Times compares the journalistic impetus of Katrina Ballads to the overtly political work of John Lennon, and found the 2010 performance at Le Poisson Rouge to have a “tough edge and a wildness of spirit that suited the music, and the subject.”

Time Out Chicago called Hearne’s interweaving of primary-source text and a multiplicity of musical styles “utterly convincing and musically compelling,” and All About Jazz claimed that the album “brings back all of the tragedy and all of the surrealism inherent in such an epic event.”

The album was named one of the best classical albums of 2010 by Time Out Chicago and The Washington Post, and was the winner of the 2009 Gaudeamus Prize.

Katrina Ballads was released in 2010 on New Amsterdam Records and can be purchased at katrinaballads.bandcamp.com

Tracklist

1.	Prologue: Keeping its head above water	6:32

2.	When we awoke, it was to that familiar phrase: New Orleans dodged a bullet	8:22

3.	Hardy Jackson: 8.30.05	4:56

4.	Interlude 1	1:42

5.	Dennis Hastert: 8.31.05	3:27

6.	Bridge to Gretna	4:28

7.	Anderson Cooper and Mary Landrieu: 9.1.05	7:55

8.	Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job	2:46

9.	Interlude 2	2:34

10.	Barbara Bush: 9.5.05	2:29

11.	Kanye West: 9.2.05	7:28

12.	Ashley Nelson	10:13

Credits

released August 1, 2010

Chris Coletti, trumpet
David Hanlon, piano
Kelli Kathman, flute/alto flute
Nathan Koci, horn
Taylor Levine, electric guitar
Eileen Mack, clarinet/bass clarinet
Batya MacAdam-Somer, violin
David Medine, viola
Jody Redhage, cello
Kris Saebo, electric bass
Ron Wiltrout, drums

Abby Fischer, mezzo-soprano
Isaiah Robinson, tenor
Allison Semmes, soprano
Anthony Turner, baritone

Ted Hearne, conductor/singer

produced by Lawson White
engineered by Todd Whitelock

album art by Liberty Straney

License

CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.