The Cure at Troy at Figment NYC 2010

My piece, The Cure at Troy, which was premiered last year at Le Poisson Rouge is being performed at the Figment festival from June 11th through 13th at 11:00 AM. The piece is being performed in their lovely, totally recyclable, outdoor stage.

http://figmentproject.org/2010/

Here’s some of the stuff they had last year:

They claim […]

Two kinds of hands off conducting

I love watching these two guys conduct, they are entirely hilarious to watch for different reasons, Strauss for the consistently blasé look on his face and Kleiber for the way he dances and gesticulates on stage, especially in his videos of pops concerts. Take a look:

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Berio Sequenza III

I first heard one of Berio’s works when a Trombonist was auditioning for the head of the Brass department position at NYU. He played the Sequenza V for that instrument but unfortunately didn’t wear the clown suit as the piece instructs.

The technical prowess required to perform the trombone piece is entirely apparent from the […]

Love Songs Recording

I recently posted my latest work on the site here along with a description and the texts used in the songs. I haven’t gotten around to syncing the nice audio and the HD video for The Arrow and The Song but I have posted To Mary, Sonnet 138 and Hymn on Circles and Lines’ Youtube […]

Circles and Lines at Greenwich House, December 10th, 8:00

Five Under Four

A unique chamber music program featuring young up-and-coming composers Angelica Negron, Noam Faingold, Conrad Winslow, Eric Lemmon and Dylan Glatthorn, with world premieres by Lemmon and Glatthorn will be offered at the historical venue, Greenwich House, on December 10th, 2009 at 8pm. The program features solo works as well as duos and […]

Chopin Ballades

Here are all of Chopin’s Ballades in sheet music and video form.

Chopin Ballade No. 1 Chopin Ballade No. 2 Chopin Ballade No. 3 Chopin Ballade No. 4

Rest of the recordings below the break.

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Trout Quintet Form:Theme, Repeat. Repeat. Repeat…

Here are the parts, score and recordings to Schubert’s Trout Quintet Rehosted from IMSLP.org.

The Beginning of these video recordings on Youtube are really cheesy:

Schubert Quintet Op. 114, “Trout”

Schubert Trout Quintet, Op. 114 Violin Part Schubert Trout Quintet, Op. 114 Viola Part Schubert Trout Quintet, Op. 114 Cello Part Schubert Trout Quintet, […]

Milhaud, La Creation Du Monde

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

Sides A & B, really cool.

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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 […]

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 […]