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Scott Blasco’s work “Queen of Heaven” is a devotional-type meditation for piano and electronics.
Read MoreReilly Spitzfaden’s work Resonances is an interesting exploration of instrumental tone and gesture, a cat-and-mouse game of imitation.
Read MoreWe will be taking a brief detour from edgy music by exploring the world of modality, jazz, and levity.
Read MoreDale Osterman’s piece Ouroboros depicts the serpent that devours its own tail.
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David T. Bridges’s work This Fragmented Old Man fuses the energy of Elliott Carter, the rhythmic drive of Bela Bartok, and the harmonic fluidity of Igor Stravinsky to create an energetic, wild, slightly senile, and charming work based on the children’s counting song “This Old Man”
Read MoreBrianna Drevlow’s piece “David’s Run” is a soundscape-turned-nightmare, depicting a recurring dream she has: “Named after the Operation Lifesaver film I watched as a young child about train safety, “David’s Run” depicts a recurring nightmare I experience where I am being hit by a slow moving train, but I wake up before impact. This piece […]
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Benjamin Rickevicius’s “Saxophone Quartet: Leaving Day” is a charming and well-structured piece, that clearly exists more in the composer’s head than in the MIDI realization. The score can be found here, and the MIDI realization, that will sound much better and more fluid in real life, can be found here: The composer clearly has a […]
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