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Name required. Blog at WordPress. I encountered this poem by Karl Kraus , the most prominent public intellectual in Vienna in the first third of the last century. He was a journalist, satirist, playwright, critic and the publisher of a widely read independent magazine critical of the culture and politics of the declining Habsburg Empire. I encountered this poem while I was recovering from a life-threatening illness.
It had, naturally, an immediate emotional resonance with me. Her music has been performed at numerous festivals and conferences, including a Summer residency as an Associate Artist at the Atlantic Center of the Arts. Her work …sky is falling in… for flute, horn and percussion was recently released by horn player Kent Leslie on his CD With every leaf, a miracle.
Because musicians often refer to lightness or darkness with reference to timbre, the idea of writing a piece dealing with subtle timbral shadings appealed to me. The wordless soprano line plays with phonemes which serve to brighten or darken the vocal timbre, while the string players concern themselves with subtle shifts in vibrato and bowings.
Both festivals saw performances of his piano work, Sonatina. Program Note for Postcard : I wrote Postcard as a going-away present for a friend who was joining the touring fiddling group, Barrage. As such, I tried to weave some fiddling influences into this short-fused, energetic piece. Luca Vanneschi b. He has written many works for orchestra, chamber groups and soloists, as well as music for theatre scenes, sound tracks, and musical commentaries for TV and radio programs. Vanneschi has received numerous international awards for his compositions.
David Heinick was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania in At age four, he began piano study with his father; subsequent piano teachers included Peter Carpenter, Wilbur Hollman, and Barry Snyder. Thaddeus Jones. He is the composer of over sixty works for a variety of media, ranging from unaccompanied flute to symphony orchestra; these include fifteen commissioned works. Scherzolinetto is a wee little scherzo. Please read quickly. He has performed solo recitals and appeared in chamber music concerts in venues across the country, including the Phillips Collection Recital Series in Washington, D.
As a composer, Mr. Tietze is committed to expanding the literature for viola through the composition of solo and chamber music works for that instrument. Two of his recent works for solo viola have been selected for feature review in the next edition of the Journal of the American Viola Society, and one of those works, Yamim Noraim , Reflection for Solo Viola, will be published in that edition. The singer is meant to deliver the text in a sort of declamatory fashion typical of baroque and classical period opera, with the viola providing the instrumental punctuation in the form of melodic fragments and double stopping.
Each vocalized syllable constitutes a single note. This being a recitative, the music in the viola part serves more as an accompaniment to the vocal line; specifically, a harmonic accompaniment.
Therefore, using this guideline, I am admittedly very loosely interpreting every entrance of the viola part in the piece to be a single note event. Dans six mille ans V. Etoile filante. His music for solo, ensemble, large symphony orchestra and musical theatre is performed worldwide by leading musicians. I would say 13 years old, more or less. Music is a mirror of these intense and concise images. His works are regularly performed at national and regional conferences of the Society of Composers, the College Music Society, and at new music festivals throughout the United States.
Each of the five songs are miniatures using or fewer notes. The second song, Nearness , is a canon, which continually descends. The long static chords of Silence are offset by the nervous energy of Nocturnal Beeches.
Simon Hutchinson is an American composer pursuing his Ph. Andrew Helberg is an Australian composer living in South Korea. A self-taught composer, he has had a life-long interest in writing music, and has had a number of works premiered in Australia. He also has a keen interest in Asian language and cultures. Currently he is working as a middle-school English teacher, and composers much of his music between classes.
These words are spoken in English, and sun in Vietnamese. There are six tones in Vietnamese, and the melody was devised by following the tonal patterns of the Vietnamese text.
The text is rendered in a tender chant-like fashion by the soprano and is counterbalanced by dramatic outbursts in the piano. His own late paintings were not literal transcriptions of nature but evocations of spiritual truth. His work has been considered a precursor to the painterly, process-oriented art of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning.
Even though considered one of the greatest painters of the 19th century, his great regret was that he was limited to paint. His music often utilises relentless repetition and pulse within a structure that can be easily perceived as a process. Sometimes humour and spoken word elements are featured in his pieces.
Chiayu was born in Banciao, Taiwan. Fisher Foundation Composer Awards among others. The whole piece is based on the Chinese Zodiac, which is a cycle of twelve years.
In Chinese astrology, the twelve animal signs represent twelve different types of personalities and the full piece has twelve movements which correspond to each sign. Although the twelve animals have their own characteristics, they can be classified into four trines based on thematic similarities.
The animals of the second trine, the Ox, Snake, and Rooster, are described as philosophical, patient and meditative. These three movements will be characterized by a freer tempo and more abstract tonality. The piece also incorporates various timbres and techniques which correspond to the five elements of the Chinese Astrology. Jana Cole is a native Californian, attended U. Berkeley where she studied theory, and eventually earned her M.
She has previously written music for numerous short films. Her music activities since have been focused on music education, teaching classroom music in the San Francisco Bay Area and teaching piano privately.
Why it was born now and not sooner is unclear, but certainly, for the composer it is the first episode of a new style and approach which should prove to be worth the wait. Smooth, long melodic lines, subtle changes in color and gently accentuated rhythm characterize this episode.
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