tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36821102011-10-01T10:01:16.851-04:00composer | esperantist | ferret & chinchilla aficionadoDavid Gaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451741295597276290noreply@blogger.comBlogger271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682110.post-16905716862852426592011-04-16T19:50:00.001-04:002011-04-16T19:51:40.302-04:00

A website that awards 30 euros a month to the winner of a competition for film scores lasting twenty seconds. Interesting.

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I'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.

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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.

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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

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From 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

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John 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.

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Strangely, 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.

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Just discovered a review of Lyric Fanfare (1994) for trombone and piano that appeared in the October 2007 issue of the International Trombone Association Journal.

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MuseScore 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.

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Happy Tails: Hansel and GretelPosted using ShareThis

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Jubilee 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

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Jim 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.

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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 the

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I 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,

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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

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Robert 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

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The first movement of Duo (1993) for flute and tuba from the Music For Winds album is nominated in the Contemporary Classical category at the 2009 Just Plain Folks Awards, which will be broadcast live on the web on Saturday, August 29th at 3pm PDT/6pm EDT at www.justplainfolks.org.

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Amy Ridings, flutist for Double Play (the only fulltime professional flute and tuba duo), wrote me the other day to tell me that they've recorded the first two movements of Duo for flute and tuba for a CD release sometime this fall. She sent along pre-release excerpts and they are delightful.

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Recordings of Five Miniatures (1983) for flute & euphonium and Heavy Metal Lullaby (2009) for music boxes, glockenspiels (bells), and celestas are now available for downloading exclusively at InstantEncore:http://www.instantencore.com/MusicDetails.aspx?PId=5032897Lullaby is $0.49, as is each track of the Five Miniatures. The complete Five Miniatures is $1.99. You can, of course, stream each track

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Here's a fascinating article from the Wall Street Journal that focuses on one man's new enterprise but also surveys the general scene regarding availability of classical music on the internet versus compact disc purchasing (which is declining precipitously, as you're no doubt already aware). Once the availability of lossless audio the specs for which are indistinguishable from compact discs (or,

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Twenty-two years after I submitted it as my master's degree thesis at American University, my concerto for euphonium and orchestra is finally getting a public performance -- in its euphonium and piano version, that is. Euphonium soloist Richard Demy will be performing it as part of his graduate euphonium recital at George Mason University's Harris Theatre in Fairfax, Virginia on May 9, 2009 at 3:

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I've mentioned Alex Ross in the past somewhere on one of my web pages but he's worth mentioning again. Alex is the music critic for The New Yorker and focuses on classical music, but he can speak intelligently about Radiohead and Bob Dylan, too. His book The Rest Is Noise: Listening To The Twentieth Century should be required reading for people interested in orchestral music who are gamely trying

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If Gustavo Dudamel can't get young people interested in orchestral music, then it isn't possible:

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One of the handful of concertos for euphonium and orchestra that have actually been performed.......if you're curious about what a euphonium sounds like in front of a symphony orchestra, you could do a lot worse than this performance. Bravo.

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I'll be at the 2009 US Army Tuba-Euphonium Conference at Fort Myer in northern Virginia on Friday & Saturday January 30th & 31st, under my publishing alter ego, Verda Stelo Music. I'll have sheet music on hand for most of my compositions that feature trombone, euphonium, or tuba, including both the full score and the piano reduction of the orchestral euphonium concerto, as well as both of my CD's

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Congratulations to Elliott Carter - he turned 100 on December 11th and has no plans to stop composing. Amazing. If you're not familiar with him, check out this feature story on him & his music at NPR's website.

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