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European Composers
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Concert Composers
10 members
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Musicae Sacrae
13 members
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Harmony and the Rudiment…
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Sound Engineers
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Good music composition software
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do you want notaion software or "composition" software. In the notation department both Sibelius and Finale Allegro make useful products. If its composition software you want, i.e. software where you push a button that says "menacing cellos and bass…
play 04 _Little waltzes for wind quintet3
10:53
#7 Please see > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shc-4AZVaNk
Profile Information
- What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
- Choir, Orchestra, Small Ensemble, Big Ensemble, Songs
- What is your favorite genre or style of music?
- Post minimalist
- Is music your main income source?
- No - Not at all.
- Where do you live?
- Graegle CA
- About Me:
- I am an old geezer. I can remember all the way back to the '60's and before. It was terrible when the North and the South started shooting at each other like that. I am not a musician, nor do I play one on TV. I just like hanging out with them. You may think that strange, but I don't play golf either and yet I like living in golfing communities.
In my checkered past I've managed to meet both Stravinsky and Hindemith. And a few others. Of all the musicians I've met, I am convinced that only two could actually look at a score and "hear" it. One was Hindemith, the other was Fritz Reiner. Stravinsky said he couldn't do it, he was sure he was just "remembering" the music prompted by the sight of the notes on the page.
Now, don't get me wrong, I was all set to have a huge career in music, but then at the last minute I remembered that I have no talent and no ambition, a fact to which my compositions abundantly testify. The knowledge of my preordained failure in this art has, I am sure, saved me from considerable misery.But its a big world and I managed to get into the pharmaceutical business creating all sorts of dangerous and useless but highly profitable drugs.Pharmaceutical science suited me well, it is a field in which absence of talent and ambition, slovenly work habits and a general disregard for logical thinking are considered assets, much like holding high public office, I suppose.
Gentle reader, you will find this hard to believe, but I am so old that I recall sitting around a campfire roasting marshmallows and discussing the chaos into which chant had fallen, with no less than my old pal Pope Greg VI. Pope Greg was an excellent tennis player, by the way. If the universe would have looped around a little differently it would have been fun to see him take on Arnold Schoenberg. Well anyway, someone suggested the Greg codify all those chants to make them more recognizable, which, during the off-season, he did. They caught on like wildfire. Soon I noticed that I couldn't go anywhere without hearing them. Baptisms, weddings funerals, lynchings were all accompanied by that wonderful Greco-Roman palaver.
My next encounter took place a few years later. The then Pope, I think it was Julius, had assigned Monteverdi to guard Palestrina. This made sense. Palestrina was a good 3 point man shooting from the corners, but Monteverdi was taller and had an uncanny way of blocking shots without drawing a foul. Nonetheless, Palestrina still scored more than one would have imagined, him being only a little taller than Kernis. Then one day Monteverdi showed up on the court with an invention, a strange looking shoe. Yes, he had invented the tennis shoe, and it made a big impression. You could hear him running up and down the court, Screech -Slap, Screech-Slap, Screech-Slap.. he had only invented ONE shoe. Two part inventions didn't come along until Bach's time.
I dozed off and missed a lot but managed to revive myself so as to spend some time with a student of Mozart, namely Hummel. I am amazed to this day how he managed to turn out so much fine music and still have time for the figurines.
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Life as it Is
May I recommend that you spend 7 minutes listening to "life as its" by composer Sherif Abraham. Creatively first rate. Very inventive and exciting with just enough contrast to make the composition, though short, satisfying and complete within itself. The orchestration is deft and the handling of instruments appears more than competent.
If I were to characterize this work, it sounded to my ear like a cross between John Wiliams and John Adams both at the very top of their game, and yet not at all… Continue
If I were to characterize this work, it sounded to my ear like a cross between John Wiliams and John Adams both at the very top of their game, and yet not at all… Continue
Posted on September 6, 2009 at 9:19pm — 7 Comments
American Songs
Richard Schletty, a first rate musician and all round nice guy, was kind enough to make an MP3 of my American Songs and load it onto my home page.
Orchestra: 2222/2200.Timpani Strings. Duration 12 minutes.
I hope you enjoy it.
For some really good music please visit Richard Schletty's home page.
Thanks
Orchestra: 2222/2200.Timpani Strings. Duration 12 minutes.
I hope you enjoy it.
For some really good music please visit Richard Schletty's home page.
Thanks
Posted on August 25, 2009 at 7:31pm —
Mozart and Dissonance
Mozart and Dissonance.
A frequent contributor to various of the Composer’s Forum blogs groups etc., recently made a remark, supposedly in defense of “modern music,” that Mozart composed A Musical Joke K 552 as a test bed for modernity. Since the piece was not well received, we are told, Mozart abandoned it. Apparently the author wished to make the point that she like Mozart has to put up with audiences who don’t “understand” the new musical language.
To set the matter straight, Mozart’s forays… Continue
A frequent contributor to various of the Composer’s Forum blogs groups etc., recently made a remark, supposedly in defense of “modern music,” that Mozart composed A Musical Joke K 552 as a test bed for modernity. Since the piece was not well received, we are told, Mozart abandoned it. Apparently the author wished to make the point that she like Mozart has to put up with audiences who don’t “understand” the new musical language.
To set the matter straight, Mozart’s forays… Continue
Posted on August 16, 2009 at 11:32pm — 6 Comments
a bit more on music critics and "new" music
New Music ..About music critics and criticism .
We all remember stories of the negative comments when the official critical community encountered Beethoven 5 and 6 (and 3 and 1) and a host of other music we now regard as masterpieces and that got panned on first performance. So I suppose we take as gospel that critics get it wrong every time, when in fact most of the time critics get it right, or more right than the rest of the audience. The must or they wouldn’t keep their jobs.
Most of the ti… Continue
We all remember stories of the negative comments when the official critical community encountered Beethoven 5 and 6 (and 3 and 1) and a host of other music we now regard as masterpieces and that got panned on first performance. So I suppose we take as gospel that critics get it wrong every time, when in fact most of the time critics get it right, or more right than the rest of the audience. The must or they wouldn’t keep their jobs.
Most of the ti… Continue
Posted on August 11, 2009 at 6:38pm — 6 Comments
Comment Wall (178 comments)
- At 9:48pm on December 26, 2009,
Kristofer Emerig said… - Fredrick,
Hope the holiday was a good one for you and family. I was really happy to get back on here after a brief hiatus and find new Zinos material, which I'm enjoying presently. Some exemplary counterpoint therein, and, as always, stimulating, provocative, and intelligently articulated musical thoughts. Kudos again sir.
- At 3:04am on December 19, 2009,
Anne Goodwin said… - I enjoyed the Von Karajan link Fredrick. It was classic and I loved it! I didn't leave a comment because I was busy making supper with my family although I notice that didn't stop me from leaving silly comments in the SHORTER conversation . . . sometimes I never learn my lessons! :(
- At 9:43pm on December 18, 2009,
Fredrick zinos said… - Jeezuz H. Khrist! What a performance! The long forte ((4:26 through 5:24) is inhumanly good. Thanks for showing this to me.
BTW, a little known and seldom understood fact: Von Karajan loved flying and MAY have been a member of the Lufwafe. At any rate, once he got into music and had to travel a great deal he invented a kind of luggage that bears his name and is still popular with airline travelers to this day.
- At 5:36pm on December 18, 2009,
Kristofer Emerig said…
- Thanks for posting the link to the Karajan rehearsal, a really nice find. I could watch that for hours if it went on. I had no idea the amount of detail in the preparation. I thought I'd return the favour by posting a link to my favorite Beethoven symphony movement 8/1, Karajan conducting. The only thing that could top this movement is watching Karajan conduct it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tj4ME6Udx8
- At 11:08am on December 17, 2009,
Karen E. Peace said…
- ps the REquiem will be performed at that concert of course..... I have also been growing, I think, as a composer, trying new things and being a bit more daring -- but i want to be daring wisely, so i really feel at home with it, and not just flailing about doing anything without a structure -- its a struggle, but well worth it, I think....
- At 11:06am on December 17, 2009,
- Hi Frederick -- well, yes i've been kind of busy, some with music, some with other things. A bit of a rough year; lost a close friend. End of 2010 I will have a concert of my music, so am very busy working on my score cleanup. Also was requested to write a piece for a local choral group, and etc, etc. It's good to hear from you! I hope you are well and wish you and your loved ones a very happy holiday season! Best wishes, Karen
- At 12:59pm on December 16, 2009,
Rudolf Schmitt said… - Don't stop writing :-D
- At 10:34am on December 16, 2009,
Rudolf Schmitt said…
- I meant "happily", not "appily"...
- At 10:33am on December 16, 2009,
Rudolf Schmitt said…
- Fredrick, appily I could detect, that you were wrong: You have a lot of talent (and skills) and without ambition you wouln't have written this music. I really enjoyed listening to your work! And you have a talent for witty, off-beat writing. It was entertaining staying on your page. Thank you!
- At 6:51am on December 16, 2009,
Rudolf Schmitt said…
- Thank you, Fredrick, for listening to my music and leaving your nice comment! I will return to you page with more time and will read and, perhaps, comment.
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