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Summary:

"A visual jazz symphony that combines historic photos with the music of Orbert Davis' Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, telling the story of how the reversal of the Chicago River saved the City of Chicago."--Container.

Table of Contents:

• I. A lost panorama : the Illinois River Valley that was changed forever (10:37)
• II. Brewing the toxic stew : the poisons that threatened the future of Chicago (6:57)
• III. Retrograde : the spectacle of reversing the Chicago River (5:28)
• IV. Fortress of solitude : a last, lonely look at old Chicago (6:13)
• V. The eighth wonder : a city emerges with boundless grit and power (7:33).

Contributors:

Davis, Orbert , composer, instrumentalist, conductor, producer, director, commentator

Ingram, Mark , producer, director

Cahan, Richard

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Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Works:

Based on: Lost panoramas [by Cahan, R.]

Subjects:

Chicago River (Ill.) — History — Songs and music

Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal (Ill.) — History — Songs and music

Jazz — 2011-2020

Third stream (Music)

Program music

2011-2020

Jazz

Illinois

Illinois — Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal

Illinois — Chicago River

Genres:

Jazz

Third stream (Music)

Program music

Songs and music

History

Performers:

Chicago Jazz Philharmonic.

Production Credits:

DVD: cinemagraph produced and directed by Orbert Davis and Mark Ingram for Orbark Productions, LLC.
CD: produced by Orbert Davis and Mark Ingram for 3Sixteen Records.

General Notes:

Title from disc label.
Inspired by: The lost panoramas : when Chicago changed its river and the land beyond / by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams.
Recorded and mixed by Roger Heiss at Tone Zone Recording, Chicago, IL.
Commissioned by the Symphony Center presents jazz series, as part of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Rivers Festival.
On DVD: complete music in five movements and composer's commentary; extras (about the composer; about The lost panoramas; about CJP; photo galleries) ; audio: PCM/Dolby stereophonic.
On CD: complete music in five movements and composer's commentary.
From the collection of Greg Rickard.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (41 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 audio disc (4 3/4 in.)

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.; monochrome

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; stereo

Digital Characteristics:

audio file; CD audio

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 821057316100
Publisher Number, 3Sixteen Records: CD31610

OCLC Numbers:

1112702675