Circles and Lines in The New York Times

In other words come see Circles and Lines at Le Poisson Rouge at 9:30 on Tuesday!

Debussy, Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune.

Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune which was first premiered in 1894 is considered perhaps to be the birth piece of the modernist movement. Though wikipedia says “It is a work that barely grasps onto tonality and harmonic function,” It is actually an incredibly tonal work, in that it has very prominent key areas. This is [...]

Milhaud, La Creation Du Monde

!!!!!!! Recording from 1923 !!!!!!!

Sides A & B, really cool.

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The Sea that Dried Up and Became a Parking Lot

I recently chronicled attending an avant new music concert at Teatro IATI where Bora Yoon would run what she sang/played through a looping pedal. She would layer harmonies, melodies and pulses on top of each other to create a whole texture. She is not the only one to be using this technique. Here is a [...]

Regina Spektor Writing Minimal Music?

When does music stop being non-minimal and become minimal? Here we have the example of Regina Spektor’s “Us”. If you listen to the piano part, most of the beginning of the song has it sitting on a C# Major, and then going up to a IV6-4 chord, an inverted F# major. Other than the fact [...]

Circles & Lines Website Up

The website for the composers group that I am a part of is now online. There you can find composers profiles and updates on our activity as we approach the concert date.

Movie Magic, Theiving to Get the Affect You Want

Soundtracks are an integral part of a movie. Many movies just use current pop songs or older classics, but as I am sure you know a large segment have a composer write a score. Aside from people liking music, and thus the reason to put it in movies, music provides an emotional underpinning for a [...]

Wichita Sutra Vortex

It is always interesting the hear how a composer works, and how they envision the feelings that a piece of art from a different medium express. Here we have Philip Glass writing a work that shares the title of Allen Ginsberg’s Wichita Sutra Vortex:

Take a listen to the work and hear the beautiful [...]

The 1st Edition of Puccini’s La Boheme

Everyone knows and loves La Boheme. It was the second most performed opera in the entire world (in 1994), a statistic that is likely to hold true today, and also the second most commonly produced opera in the US. Listeners are treated to aria after aria of incredible melodies, key changes and colors.

The general [...]