"City Walks" Recording Posted
Posted on May 17, 2009
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Filed under: Current Work, Recording, string quartet
I’ve posted the recording of last week’s premiere of my new string quartet piece City Walks. Please visit this page to hear excerpts or the entire piece.
Read More"City Walks" for String Quartet: A short program note
Posted on May 5, 2009
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The following is a program note for my new string quartet work City Walks, which receives its premiere this weekend in Berkeley, California. I began composing City Walks at the end of 2008 after finding a few pages of music for string quartet deep in the caverns of my computer’s file system. I had absolutely no recollection of composing this, and if it...
Read MoreUpcoming String Quartet Premiere
Posted on Apr 6, 2009
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My new piece, City Walks for string quartet, will be premiered by the Eidolon Quartet next month in Berkeley, California. If you’re in the Bay Area, please come and check it out! The concert also features new works by my very talented colleagues Alexis Alrich, Clark Suprynowicz and Clare Twohy. The concert is on Saturday, May 9th at 8:00pm in the Dalby...
Read MoreThe Case for Movable “Do” in Classroom Ear Training
Posted on Feb 4, 2009
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Filed under: ear training, featured, fixed do, Kodály, movable do, Musicianship, Sight Singing, Solfège, Teaching
Against my better judgment, I’m jumping into the fray regarding methods used in the teaching of sight singing. Normally I try to stay away from such conflicts, but I can only take so much disparagement of my beloved Movable Do system. The last straw is the discovery of this web site, which contains misleading information designed to promote the sale of a...
Read MoreNew Mark Adamo Opera Commission Announced
Posted on Jan 26, 2009
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San Francisco Opera has announced plans to commission a new work by Mark Adamo for a scheduled premiere in 2013. The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, in Mark’s words, “draws on the Gnostic gospels, the canonical gospels and fifty years of new Biblical scholarship to reimagine the loves and conflicts of the New Testament through the eyes of its leading female...
Read MoreMy "The Rite of Spring" Used Book Store Find
Posted on Jan 15, 2009
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Filed under: Budapest, János Ferencsik, Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring
OK, this may not be on par with finding the score of an unknown Beethoven symphony sewn into the lining of an 18th-Century Tyrolian overcoat, but I think this is kind of cool. I have on my shelf what seems to be an original copy of the first full score of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, published in 1921 by Édition Russe de Musique. (Prior to that,...
Read MoreMusic by Joseph Castaldo: String Quartet 1978
Posted on Dec 23, 2008
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Filed under: Joseph Castaldo, octatonic, Philadelphia, string quartet, Teachers, University of the Arts
My first (and only) composition teacher at the University of the Arts, where I received my bachelor’s degree in the ’80s, was Joseph Castaldo, whose music is shockingly unknown today. If you do a Google search on “Joseph Castaldo composer“, you’ll find an inexplicable number of resulting pages having to do with his birthday...
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