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Hold onto your seats boys and girls: “Back to the 70s” works by UCLA faculty will be held in Schoenberg Auditorium on December 3, 2009 at 8 pm.
Featuring the works of Munir Beken, Roger Bourland, Mark Carlson, Paul Chihara, Ian Krouse, David Lefkowitz, and James Newton. Performers include the UCLA Faculty String Quartet: Movses [...]
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Writing for harp was one of the techniques I learned that brought me back to writing tonal music. My teacher and the performer here, was Susan Allen, now associate dean over at CalArts and the harp teacher. Susie and I moved from Boston to LA at the time and shared a 23 foot truck. We [...]
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PERSONAE (1981)
1. Jackson Pollock:The War Goddess mp3Jules Eskin, cello,Edwin Barker, bass[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
PERSONAE (1981)
2. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn: St Peter in Prison mp3Jules Eskin, cello,Edwin Barker, bass[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
PERSONAE (1981)
3. Rene Magritte: The Reckless Sleeper mp3Jules Eskin, cello,Edwin Barker, bass[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
PERSONAE (1981)
4. [...]
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ARIAS for cello and piano (1989)
1. Cl’airea mp3Ronald Leonard, cello, Antoinette Perry, piano. This movement written for the wedding of Paul Reale and Claire Rydell.[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
ARIAS for cello and piano
2. Mount Shasta mp3Dedicated to the memory of Charlie Swigart.[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
ARIAS for cello and piano
3. In [...]
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I seem to have been obsessed with lumping sets of four movements or songs in most of the music from this period. Like Four Painters, this piece paints musical portraits of four poets. The process of trying to figure out how to express the musical persona of a particular poet is a mysterious one but [...]
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Four Painters for piano quartet (2001)
Music: Roger Bourland
Performers: Pacific Serenades
Publisher: Pacific Serenades Music
1. Picasso mp3[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
2. Thomas Hart Benton mp3[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
3. Man Ray mp3[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
4. Henri Matisse mp3[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Notes: I’ve had a life-long habit of [...]
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Cantilena (1981) mp3
Music: Roger Bourland
Publisher: ECS Publishing
Performers: Tom Harmon, organ; Gary Gray, clarinet
Cantilena was commissioned for the first season of the award-winning Los Angeles chamber music ensemble, Pacific Serenades. The premiere was in the home of Leland Burns. This work was originally written for flutist, composer, and director of PacSer, Mark Carlson. Alden Ashforth had [...]
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Death of Narcissus (1980) mp3
Music: Roger Bourland
Richard Cornell conducts the Red Sneakers chamber ensemble
Publisher: Yelton Rhodes Music
Death of Narcissus was composed for one of the Composers in Red Sneakers concerts. In that we were all students, we had composition assignments for our classes and had to keep producing for the Sneakers series, we had to [...]
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AMERICAN BAROQUE was commissioned by Mark Carlson and Pacific Serenades for their 1991-92 season. Like many of the music I was writing at that time, the form of the word is roughly palindrdomic, for instance ABCDEDC’B’A’. The sewing machine quality of the melody is something you will hear in this piece that vaguely evokes Baroque [...]
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I’m doing the music to a short film by Mel Shapiro called INFRARED. Mel, as you may remember, wrote the book and lyrics to HOMER IN CYBERSPACE — a musical we premiered last years. I’m playing all the parts myself using Logic 9 (just arrived yesterday). It’s the smokiest, jazziest music I’ve composed to date, [...]
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