A brand new look to this blog
Take a look to the new theme for this blog.
pa·ten·cy
The Condition of being open, expanded, or unobstructed. When writing this piece, I had this definition in mind. I wanted the harmonic language to represent that feeling of openness, so I used a fifths language giving it that open feeling. I treated the circle of fifths almost like a tone row, drawing my harmonies and chords from sections of the circle and creating a melody directly from the reading the circle either clockwise or counter-clockwise.
1 month ago - 
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3 New and Improved videos are now up on my youtube page. Many of your old favorite videos now have a much more improved look to them. Brighter colors and clarity, as well as a very artistic effect.
Take a look at here:
Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir 3; Water Night
This is my second time participating in the Virtual Choir and its always amazing to see how it turns out and just how many people submit videos. Proof that new music can still survive despite all the nay sayers.
By the way these are the snapshots I got that I was able to find myself in.
Watch the Video here: Virtual Choir 3
1 month ago - 5
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Oh writers’ block how you torment me. Just when I have an idea you stop it cold. (Taken with instagram)
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This is fun. Try it in fullscreen. Extra points if you tilt your head. You’re only human.
brilliant
Fucking A+
sick.
This was awesome.
I am amused.
Okay, this is amazing
delightful
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Higher Quality version of this piece
This is a sight-reading session of an original piece, Interpretations on Folk Melodies, re-arranged for full orchestra. Due to the very difficult nature of the piece, the orchestra had to start and stop a few times. I merged sections from both the first and second reading to make this video. This piece was originally written as a Saxophone Solo which can be found here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJT4Rv5L81Y&feature=related
Program notes:
“Interpretation on Folk Melodies is my first real attempt at writing a piece using quotations. I drew inspiration from other composers like Ives and Hulen that have used quotation in their music as well as artist that used collage in their art such as Darger and the artist of the Dada movement. The quotations used came from a piece I played in middle school band, church hymns I knew growing up, and pieces I heard here and there throughout my life. Some of the quotes include Merry had a Little Lamb, Hymn of the Republic, I’ve Been Working On the Railroad, Sing Low Sweet Chariot, Camp town Races, Joy to the World, many other. “
Jackie Stevens, Soprano
Junyoung Kwak, Piano
“I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day” is a piece for solo soprano and piano accompaniment set to the text by Gerard Manley Hopkins’ sonnet of the same name. I express the bitterness and emptiness expressed in Hopkins’ poem of a man without God. Though the music was not influenced by the sonnet form of the poem, I used the poem’s tone and imagery to dictate the overall structure and direction. The topic of the poem and the tone also helped shaped the harmonic language of the piece as well. I left enough room in the piece to allow both the pianist and soprano room to really interpret the piece and the poem in their own way without compromising what I wished to say in the music.
