Joseph Castaldo’s “Ancient Liturgy” Revisited in Philadelphia

Posted on Mar 5, 2010 | 2 comments
Filed under: Choral, Joseph Castaldo, Other People\'s Music, Philadelphia, Seán Deibler, Teachers, Video

This month the Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, my choral alma mater, will present a concert that epitomizes the kind of music making that went on in Philadelphia when I was a student there in the 1980′s. The occasion is the 20th anniversary of the premiere of Joseph Castaldo’s extraordinary work for narrator, chorus and orchestra Ancient...

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Music by Joseph Castaldo: String Quartet 1978

Posted on Dec 23, 2008 | 4 comments
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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