Quick edits, new projects 06/29/2010
Hey everybody. I made a couple tiny edits to my page today (on Other Experience and Contact/Links). I started working on my 365 Project last Monday. So far, I'm unsure about whether this will be a good, performable, presentable piece of music... but the strict nature of the writing is forcing my creative juices to flow. If nothing else, this time next year I'll be able to pull out some interesting material to use again in another project. I've also been compiling and organizing public domain poetry for a song cycle. I actually have poetry picked out for two separate song cycles: one on Loss, and one on Love. The Loss cycle will be for soprano and either tenor or baritone. The Love cycle will be for either tenor or baritone (likely whatever voice I don't use for the first cycle.) I'm excited to get to writing! More music on the Music page 06/12/2010
I added parts from Four Poems and The Name on the Door to the Music page. These were recorded at the Perspectives recital, June 4, 2010, at the Artist's Inn Residence in Washington, DC. Check them out! A quick note on Perspectives 06/08/2010
Perspectives went really well on Friday evening! I was very happy with the turnout and the performances. I made a recording that turned out pretty well, too. I have to do a little editing on it, and then I'll put snippets online for all of you to hear. I haven't had much of a chance to write about this lately- I'm in rehearsals for a performance at the Kennedy Center with the City Choir of Washington (we're doing Beethoven's Choral Fantasia) and for La Rondine. Both of those are coming up very soon! Soon I need to start work on my incidental music for the New York Fringe Festival (assuming that's still happening... it might not be.) I also want to start looking for good poems in the public domain to set to music. I'm really in the mood to write some songs. My 365 Project starts soon, too! High five! | CategoriesAll I've re-thought what I'm doing with the song cycle. It's going to be slightly more Rorem-esque in scope than I had originally planned, but I think it'll still go fairly quickly.
The song cycle is now called "Love is Not the Last Room," a line from the last poem of the set. It will be for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, and baritone soloists, with a piano accompaniment. Each singer will have 3 solos. There is also a finale quartet, and there will be an intro and a few transitions with various groupings of the singers based on material from the quartet. All in all there will be 18 movements, but many are around a minute long. I have three pieces done so far- "Oh, Every Day that Dawns" (soprano... previously written, but recycled for this), "A Cry" (soprano), "Singers" (tenor). I'm also pretty much done with the vocal line for the final quartet- it just needs some tweaking and for the piano part to be fleshed out. Several other songs are sketched out a bit, too. More details once I have them!  The BlogHere I'll write about what I'm working on, how it's going, what I'm listening to, or anything that seems to pop into my head. ArchivesAugust 2010 |
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