
Naxos has released composer
Maurice Saylor’s “magnum opus”
The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits, on CD and where all fine digital music files can be downloaded. You can hear the excellent Cantate Singers toss lines from Carroll’s poem around in a choral whirlwind, accompanied by Saylor’s Snark Pit-Band. The other tracks on the album, music Saylor wrote for silent films and played by
The Snark Ensemble, are also really fun. Listen to excerpts of
Amazon’s mp3s (individual tracks for $0.89, or the whole album for $11.68), or buy from
iTunes here. The Snark Ensemble pictured below, Maurice Saylor second from right: