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"John Henry" is based on the oft-recorded eponymous folk song about the mythical figure who died after successfully competing with a steam-powered rock drilling machine in building a tunnel. The piece opens by additively building up the theme of the folk song and then going into a motoric continuum of repeated notes (reminiscent of a machine) based on the notes of the tune. Then the process starts again, leading to thunderous repeated chords that run through the blues harmony in slow motion (Perotin again comes to mind). As Gena mentions, his method in the political works is not so different from that of the DNA works: Both start out with a string of data, whether the notes of a folk tune or the pattern of
codons in a DNA sequence.

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from Peter Gena: Beethoven in Soho and Other Works, released October 6, 2023
Anthony de Mare, piano

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Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc., which records under the label New World Records, was founded in 1975.

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