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Comment by Ehsan Saboohi on October 24, 2009 at 3:39pm

Hello All,
I have uploaded FAREWELL SONATA FOR CLARINET SOLO
Happy to get your opinion about the my piece .
Grateful.

Comment by Gregory T. Candy on September 7, 2009 at 12:28am

Just joined this interest group. Has the potential for lively conversations. Edward asked to "talk Ives." Good start since I've something to share. Did a concert last spring of new pieces by Neely Bruce and Robert Carl, Connecticut composers where I live. Also on the program was Ives' Third Symphony. The critical edition score the composer had discussed a "discarded" timpani part to this piece traditionally done strings alone. He decided to perform the symphony with the timpani part added back. I was the timpanist. Interesting to do what may have amounted to a world premier since the critical edition score made no reference to anyone EVER actually playing the symphony with that part. The part itself: maybe from a programmatic perspective it described some old coot having a conversation with himself during the service:having no relationship with the other parts around them. Part was very Ivesian in its wild rhythmic complexity. It was fun to play. The two guest composers, Ives scholars them selves, said they enjoyed it and that for all they knew it was a first.

After Ives, anyone want to talk Golijov?

Greg C
Windsor Locks, CT

Comment by Peter Dewar-Finch on August 29, 2009 at 7:53pm

It depends what we mean by ‘Modern Composers’ It is different whether we are into music from the early 20th cent onwards. My favourites were the likes of Mahler, Bartock, Bantock, R Straus, Stravinsky, Vaughan Williams and the like. The only trouble with these guys is that they were born in the 19th cent. My belief is when and where you are born affects your life, especially with regard to influences. We are all subject to influences, the previous generation influences the next and so on; this is why ’Classical’ music has such a sense of continuity. The people who really seem to be on the cusp of breaking out of the mould to become true modernists are the kids and young people of today who are coming at ‘Classical’ music from their beginnings in Rock, acid, Garage and Indi pop. Many of these people become involved in technology, with sample based music, helping to shape the way for the future. One recent man to achieve his Classical epiphany is Goldie (Clifford Joseph Price) on the BBC Proms no less (a place we would all like to get to with our music),with his impressive piece “Sine tempore”. Anyone see that Prom on the TV? If you’ve not heard it, try this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axNCWpM1fQk
This epitomises the kind of thing I am leaning towards, but unlike Goldie I was educated in the Classical tradition and I think that this is a barrier. Any thoughts on this?

Comment by Edward Schaffer on August 25, 2009 at 10:49am

Lets talk Charles Ives!

Comment by Fredrick zinos on May 22, 2009 at 9:38am

Howdy Richard,
How about some music?

FZ

Comment by Richard Larencio Matthis on May 22, 2009 at 7:40am

Just a hello! I'm new to Composers Forum and this group!