tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36821102024-03-13T12:28:52.252-04:00DAVID GAINEScomposer | musicianDavid Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-5701402806640599442023-08-07T15:42:00.000-04:002023-08-07T15:42:02.859-04:00Coming Soon To A Streaming Site Near You David Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-12820954163911914102016-02-02T17:58:00.001-05:002016-02-02T17:58:19.998-05:00"The Music of David Gaines [Remastered]" Now Available For Listening At YouTubeDavid Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-28903604127272337712015-01-26T12:17:00.001-05:002015-01-26T12:17:47.290-05:00Portable PhilosophyJacob Slichter of Semisonic has an intriguing new blog out now called Portable Philosophy which focuses on very accessible analyses of different aspects of how music is put together (with an emphasis on popular song styles). Highly recommended.David Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-3313207720458487302014-11-26T11:57:00.002-05:002014-11-26T11:57:39.475-05:00DG named to foundation advisory board postThe Esperantic Studies Foundation, an organization devoted to the study and application of interlinguistics with an emphasis on the international language Esperanto, has asked Dr. Gaines to join its Advisory Board to provide perspectives on the arts, music, and cultural issues.David Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-12937920505359383202014-04-30T16:07:00.002-04:002014-04-30T16:07:56.321-04:00"Free Air" project preview @ New Music USAHere's a preview of Eileen Meyer Russell's New Music USA funding proposal for Free Air, the composition for trombone and organ she commissioned from me for an October 2014 premiere and a CD recording in 2015.David Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-51533860743652610802014-03-26T11:28:00.001-04:002014-03-26T11:28:55.384-04:00Why teach music?The University of Florida's School of Music has multiple answers to that question.David Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-92001372455140618872014-02-18T15:49:00.000-05:002014-02-18T17:17:09.260-05:00A long lost review (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));
Post by David Gaines, composer.David Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-12543503132165978652013-03-24T00:24:00.001-04:002013-03-24T00:24:14.332-04:00Check out Expedition AudioJust discovered a new classical music/jazz website called Expedition Audio, which is run by HBDirect, a really great site for purchasing all kinds of classical music (including mine). Expedition Audio focuses on more obscure stuff you probably haven't heard of and wouldn't be likely to come across elsewhere. I applaud what they're doing and recommend you take a look and poke around. Enjoy.David Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-59859737833309883072012-12-30T18:39:00.002-05:002012-12-30T18:41:20.877-05:00DG now @ GrammyAmplifier.com - #TheWorldIsListeningYou can hear the new virtual orchestra recording of my Elegy for string orchestra at GrammyAmplifier.com, part of The Recording Academy's #TheWorldIsListening project......please "amplify" the link on your Facebook page, Twitter feed, Tumblr blog, Google+ page, or other website. This recording, by the way, will be a bonus track included at the end of the newly remastered version of my David Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-16905716862852426592011-04-16T19:50:00.001-04:002011-04-16T19:51:40.302-04:00A competition for 20-second film scoresA website that awards 30 euros a month to the winner of a competition for film scores lasting twenty seconds. Interesting.David Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-27056499644085443312011-01-03T22:55:00.002-05:002011-01-03T22:57:32.897-05:00Now part of the aUtopia roster at ReverbNationI'm the first American musician to be invited to join the artist roster of aUtopia, a very interesting Spain-based music collective over at ReverbNation. Take a listen to their other artists, representing a range of experimental, progressive, electronic, and contemporary classical music.David Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-73075806061343314042010-12-11T23:51:00.001-05:002010-12-11T23:51:45.625-05:00Brand new DG holiday arrangement: "Carol Of The Bells (for Leo)"A brand new DG holiday arrangement, Carol Of The Bells (for Leo), an entirely digital production featuring metallic percussion instruments (chimes, celesta, glockenspiel, music box, crotales, and triangle), is available for downloading exclusively at InstantEncore.com. You can also listen to it online at ReverbNation.com.David Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-52488596750686350982010-09-25T11:36:00.002-04:002010-09-25T11:40:18.243-04:00Miles Zuniga - Great Songwriter In Search of $$$Miles Zuniga, best known as 1/3 of the Austin, Texas-based pop/rock group Fastball, is setting out on the weird and wonderful journey known as "fundraising" in order to get his first solo record off the ground. Similar to what I did earlier this year with Chipin.com (but he's looking to gather up a lot more money), he's holding his hat out to fans and strangers alike over at Kickstarter.com. I David Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-87040510501927517692010-08-08T16:17:00.000-04:002010-08-08T16:18:11.750-04:00Review of the CONVERSATIONS album from ItalyFrom an Italian music review site called Kathodik (www.kathodik.it)...translated by DG from the orginal Italian:As the title says, this new Navona CD is a kind of conversation at a distance between two contemporary American composers, David Gaines and John Bilotta, by whom there are presented short works for organic chamber groups limited to a few instruments. The metaphor of a conversation is David Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-80176973254987230242010-07-24T09:47:00.002-04:002010-07-24T09:52:10.111-04:00Composer John Adams on pop culture & anti-intellectualismJohn Adams has some interesting things to say about the relationship of pop and classical music in the United States in this interview from last year.David Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-57852968077466081572010-05-10T15:18:00.002-04:002010-05-10T15:22:41.766-04:00Great new documentary about the Louisville OrchestraStrangely, the Louisville Orchestra in Kentucky led the way in the United States in terms of commissioning new music from the country's leading composers in the 1950s and 1960s. Click here to learn about this amazing story. The film premieres on May 20th.David Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-41368532338222234382010-03-21T12:24:00.002-04:002010-03-21T12:25:37.874-04:00Review of "Lyric Fanfare" for trombone and pianoJust discovered a review of Lyric Fanfare (1994) for trombone and piano that appeared in the October 2007 issue of the International Trombone Association Journal.David Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-53923787448070122602010-02-24T14:35:00.000-05:002010-02-24T14:46:18.566-05:00MuseScore | Free music composition & notation softwareMuseScore is a free cross platform WYSIWYG music notation program, licenced under GNU GPL. It imports/exports MusicXML & Standard MIDI files and it's free - worth checking out if you can't afford or don't want to use Finale or Sibelius, the industry standard notation programs (both of which can save files in MusicXML format). I might check it out myself.David Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-15616653539419894892010-02-15T20:00:00.001-05:002010-02-15T20:00:45.902-05:00Happy Tails: Hansel and GretelHappy Tails: Hansel and GretelPosted using ShareThisDavid Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-11586598774183983782010-02-01T21:37:00.002-05:002010-02-01T21:42:44.819-05:00Jubilee for euphonium and piano selected for Falcone International CompetitionJubilee for euphonium and piano (2005) was selected as one of the two required compositions for the student division semifinal round of the 25th Annual Leonard Falcone International Euphonium Competition, to be held on August 15th at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan! The Falcone competition and festival is the most renowned in the euphonium world, sort of the equivalent of the Van David Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-60153330568983924922010-01-23T19:18:00.003-05:002010-01-23T19:24:56.952-05:00Feature story on Jim DeJoie in Earshot Jazz magazineJim DeJoie, who was the soloist on my baritone saxophone concerto recording that will be coming out in a few months, is featured in the January 2010 issue of Seattle's EarShot Jazz magazine.David Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-24988109901578985062010-01-19T16:13:00.004-05:002010-01-19T16:46:08.753-05:00Help make the new CD a reality!Bringing new chamber music to your ears by way of some of the best musicians in the world is very expensive.....click on the ChipIn widget below to help us succeed against the major record labels' lack of interest in promoting this kind of music. Everyone who contributes - whatever the amount - gets his or her name in the liner notes......contributors of $25 or more will have a signed copy of theDavid Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-30562354660932075052009-12-20T18:12:00.002-05:002009-12-20T18:21:56.582-05:00A rare and fascinating website devoted to compositionI recently stumbled upon this website, which is run coincidentally by a fellow who is a new faculty member at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, where I got my doctorate. Composition:Today is one of the handful of sites I've encountered that deals with the nuts and bolts of composing classical music in this day and age. Although it is aimed at, and probably mainly of interest to, David Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-75925225945519455202009-10-25T13:27:00.004-04:002009-10-25T13:47:40.499-04:00Help us finish up the production costs for the new David Gaines CD!The new chamber music CD/digital download will be released in early 2010 on the Navona Records label (and distributed by Naxos). You'll finally get to hear:...and dispel the miseries of the world (2008) for baritone saxophone and chamber orchestra (written for and recorded by the Seattle baritone saxophone hero James DeJoie, with members of the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kirk David Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-20606673921364544292009-10-03T19:18:00.002-04:002009-10-03T19:38:35.819-04:00Trombone Concerto premieres in Czech RepublicRobert Kozánek gave virtuoso performances of my new trombone concerto last week in Kroměříž, Czech Republic in the beautiful Assembly Hall of the archbishop's castle (a UNESCO world heritage site). He was ably assisted by his father, Viktor Kozánek, conducting the P. J. Vejvanovský Conservatory Orchestra. Robert asked me to write the concerto in honor of the conservatory's 60th anniversary when David Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.com0