Bridge Records, 2005 • $16.99
On his latest CD, Thomas Flaherty, the Dexter Professor of Music, offers original compositions from small motives to rich explorations of rhythmic and metric interaction. Music of Tom Flaherty is a collection of Pomona talents, featuring Pomona’s viola instructor Cynthia Fogg, Flaherty’s wife; and Emeritus Professor of Music Karl Kohn and his wife, Margaret Kohn, a piano instructor at Pomona. Joseph Brennan, media services coordinator at
Pomona, serves as the recording engineer on some pieces. Flaherty plays the cello. The entire CD was recorded at Pomona College. Flaherty’s multifarious compositions are inspired by—and make reference to—a diverse assortment of musical ideas and existing works, including the resonance of the bells of Vorarlberg, Austria, a cellist’s boredom with standard
trill studies and moments of Varese, Bach and Bartók.

Sagehen Tracks

Tesseract
Jim Hale ’70 sings baritone in Clockwork’s quintet of Bay Area jazz musicians on their first full-length album. One by Hale blends with those by Coltrane, Hancock and Lennon/McCartney. Clockwork, 2005 • $15

American Songs
Patrice Doub Michaels ’78, soprano, shows the depth and breadth of contemporary American song in her 20th commercial release. “Interesting that works written years before my birth are still considered new music.” Cedille Records, 2006 • $16.