Nice review:
The Atlantic Guitar Quartet's recent concert at the Engineer's Club in Baltimore got a nice review from singer Megan Ihnen. While it's great to get nice press, and I was of course happy with the review as well as the performance, the new pieces the quartet premiered by David Smooke and Christopher Gainey were fantastic. If you get a chance to hear these pieces performed, don't hesitate. Two very nice - and very different - additions to the repertoire for guitar quartet.
Yes, I can speak! I recently did an interview with Dave DeDionisio on the eclectic website, Those Who Dig. You can check out the website, or you can get directly to the interview here: Dave and I talking about music (and baseball).
Be Not Afeard: the Atlantic Guitar Quartet will perform this again on the Evolution Concert Series, Feb 7, 2012 at An Die Musik in Baltimore. UPDATE: This concert had to be postponed. It has now been re-scheduled for May 9 - composer's talk at 7 pm, concert at 8. More info: Evolution Concert Series. On this concert, the quartet will be performing all five movements.
New Work premiere:
The Alturas Duo will give the premiere of a work for Guitar and Viola - The Places We Left Behind.
The performance will take place on Sept. 30 at the University of Texas-Dallas. I wrote this work for them this past spring (May, 2011). They will follow that with performances in New York, Baltimore, and Hartford. There is now a video of their performance here on the Audio/Video page.
The performance will take place on Sept. 30 at the University of Texas-Dallas. I wrote this work for them this past spring (May, 2011). They will follow that with performances in New York, Baltimore, and Hartford. There is now a video of their performance here on the Audio/Video page.
Premiere in Baltimore:
The Atlantic Guitar Quartet will premiere 3 movements from a five-movement work I composed for them this past summer (2011). The is titled: Be Not Afeard: Music from Prospero's Island. The work's five sections take their titles from a small passage spoken by Caliban - they are highlighted below:
Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep
Will make me sleep again; and then in dreaming
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked
I cried to dream again.
Shakespeare - The Tempest, Act III
The performance details will be posted as soon I can get them. Update: The quartet gave a wonderful performance - the three movements are posted on the Music for Guitar page, and some video on the Audio/Video page.
Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep
Will make me sleep again; and then in dreaming
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked
I cried to dream again.
Shakespeare - The Tempest, Act III
The performance details will be posted as soon I can get them. Update: The quartet gave a wonderful performance - the three movements are posted on the Music for Guitar page, and some video on the Audio/Video page.
New Work premiere: In March, 2011, I premiered Places of Stillness and Light in Cleveland, OH. Hope to get it recorded soon.
