Perspectives, Encounters, and Raises 05/29/2010
First and foremost: The composition recital that Kyle, Roc, and I have been working toward is in less than a week! It's tentatively named "Perspectives," (that hasn't been ok'd by everybody else yet). The program is below: Perspectives A Recital of the music of Kyle Gullings, Roc Lee, and Michael Oberhauser The Artist's Inn Residence 1824 R St. NW Washington, DC June 4, 2010 8:00pm String Quartet No. 1: At Best It Sometimes Rhymes (2009) Kyle Gullings II. Two Music Boxes III. Emanations I. There Is a Child *Destiny Hoyle, violin Kate Northfield, violin *Elizabeth O'Hara, viola *Diana Curtis, cello *member of Altra String Quartet Four Poems (2010) Michael Oberhauser III. Haiku IV. Free Verse Cristina Verderese, flute Henry Valoris, viola Roc Lee, piano Three arias from the chamber opera Oblivion (2010) Kyle Gullings The Plumtree Night in Kalapa Sorrow Is My Own Yard Rachel Barham, soprano James Rogers, baritone Cristina Verderese, flute Kyle Gullings, piano Piano Suite (2005) Roc Lee tristesse oblige sepia Hilary Henry, piano in memoriam Hibakusha (rev. 2009) Kyle Gullings Kyle Gullings, baritone Hilary Henry, piano narrator The Name on the Door (2010) Michael Oberhauser Sarah Philippa, soprano Katherine Sanford, soprano Joshua Brown, baritone Elena Forbes, clarinet Henry Valoris, viola Elizabeth O'Hara, viola Yufen Chou, piano Next part of this post: Encounters. Working here at the Cosmos Club, I saw that there was a recital by the Vocal Arts Society scheduled one of the days I was working. I had no more work to do, so I could have gone home, but I popped upstairs to see if they needed anything. Turns out the recital was made up of all Lori Laitman's music. There were two singers there... and the composer herself on piano. I mentioned to the woman sponsoring the recital that I was a composer, and she invited me to listen to the recital and meet Lori afterwards. I did both! What a wonderful concert (everyone, look up her "Pentecost." It's incredible.), and what a sweet, friendly person! She and I are actually friends on Facebook now! :) Part three: Raise I mean, there's not much to say about this, except that I got a raise at work... and I'm taking on a lot more hours: Instead of working weekends, I'm now working Monday through Friday 9-5. The worst part about this is I had to give up my dogwalking job. I'll miss the mutts, but the extra money will definitely be nice! CommentsLeave a Reply | 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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