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Composer's or Composers'? Singular or plural possessive? Check your logo design and check the existing masthead.
How about aspects of a prison? Music has captivated me, put me in a sleeper hold. "Chained Melody."
Yep. I could design something. Here is a logo I designed for MacJams.com nut they never used it. Well, we were all having fun. The admins never asked the members for logo submissions.
voice - bass, baritone, all styles
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- What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
- film, web, multimedia, Choir, Orchestra, Songs, Contemporary Ensembles
- What is your favorite genre or style of music?
- Eclectic Folk
- Is music your main income source?
- No - Not Yet
- Where do you live?
- St. Paul, MN
- About Me:
- Richard Schletty is a performing songwriter from St. Paul's West Side where he and his wife Pat have been raising seven kids.
Richard's college buddies from St. John's U in Collegeville, MN, formed a band in the early 70s called Rocka-Rolla. They still get together once or twice a year to perform early rock classics for smallish crowds.
Schletty is an experienced cantor, songleader and choral singer. He sang at Masses, funerals and weddings for many years at St. Matthew's Catholic Church on Saint Paul's West Side. He currently sings at St. Mary's Catholic Church in downtown St. Paul.
In 2007, Richard joined the bass section of Waltham Abbey Singers, a local Renaissance-Baroque choir which performs sacred music a cappella. The director of this fine chorus is Brian Link.
Richard has done gigs in local coffee shops, singing his own Folk-Rock originals. As a member of the Minnesota Association of Songwriters and the Catholic Association of Music, he is striving to improve the form and content of his songwriting and the resonance of his solo public performances of Folk-Rock and Praise music.
A major opus called "Hungry For Heaven" is in formation with excellent composer, guitarist and synth instrumentalist David Gómez Sanz, who lives in Spain. It is just one of many internet collaborations Richard has done since the summer of the 2004. Schletty uses his Macintosh computer to tap into collaborators via email, music sharing web sites and FTP file transfer. His favored program for digital recording, sequencing and mixing is Apple Logic Express.
Richard does collaborations with André van Haren, a Dutch composer living in Sweden. They are working on Trauerlieder, songs of love, as well as full orchestral compositions with voice. Long range, we are planning to produce one or two operas.
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- http://www.richardschletty.com
Comment Wall (9 comments)
- At 10:45pm on July 3, 2009,
Kristofer Emerig said… - Hi Richard;
Just spent some time accompanying Trail of Tears on harpsichord. Fredrick was right - you're first rate. Trail of Tears has a driving, Renaissance quality that's quite infectious. All of your music has a sensible, grounded quality which makes it very suitable for just playing along with; Very enjoyable.
- At 12:33pm on June 2, 2009,
Fredrick zinos said… - Richard,
This is amazing > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FJXyH-tI6U <</body>
- At 11:18am on April 5, 2009,
Fredrick zinos said…
- new photos on my page showing confusingly similar photos of Paul Hindemth and Paul Hindenburg, John Dowland and Boyd Dowler, Larry and Bill Bird, and Orlando de Lasso and "de Lasso" and a great new pic of Cloudio Monteverdi.
- At 11:56pm on April 2, 2009,
Sergiy Byelousov said… - Hello Richard. Thank your for your comment. I've just read your biography.It's truly amazing for me- 7 kids. You are a great father.:)) I like your music. It gives positive emotions and wrote in a strict style.
We ( I, my wife and my daughter) live in Kiev. Ukraine. I work at my own studio Darts Records and looking for new friends and any ways for collaboration.
My specialization is a music for feature films and songwriting. My dream to write music for Blockbusters and Musicales. Now I have looking for new projects witch will bring all members of it, pleasure and financial income for long years. I hope on a collaboration too. Hope see you soon. Sergiy.
- At 3:32pm on March 29, 2009,
Fredrick zinos said…
- Live music? Hold on, let me catch my breath. You mean where actual people are involved?
I imagine a concert in which all of the sounds are created electronically and the composer is a creation of the merry pranksters at X box.
Just as there is no live music, in this imaginary concert there is no live audience. The concert is broadcast via some device whose signals can only be detected by an esoteric recording apparatus developed by a 12 year old mongol lass in a yurt outside of Ulan Bator. No one is able to actually hear the music because the instructions for the operation of the recording device were phoned by the young mongolian to a swede in a phone booth in Oslo who, not knowing one word of mongolian, wrote the message phonetically to be later translated by a dislexic agnostic amnesiac. Upon receipt of the swede's message the translator dozed off only to wake with a start and shriek "There is no dog."... Anyway you get the idea.
Your offer is most generous. Ill send over an Improbable Impromptu in C. Tell me if you think its worth the effort.
- At 11:07am on March 29, 2009,
Fredrick zinos said…
- Howdy Richard,
I am not a musician, therefore have no access to musicians and thus no live performances that survive into recorded form except maybe for Elegy for Tuba and Piano (kjos) that I think may still available on Crystal.
I use Sibelius notation software, but do the actual composition, including use of manuscript paper, pencil, large paper shredder and a yamaha keyboard. Beyond that I own no other electronic music jiggery pokery. I don't even know where to start on that subject, should I purchase "Logic" that is suppose to be highly compatible with Sibelius? Garritan? Cubase?
Adding to the confusion is that where I live we are a lucky to have 'lectricity. Most of the folks up here in the mountains are pretty sure its just a passing fancy, although some of them have upgraded by getting rid of their television sets and getting something called radio, a device that allows one to hear things without that annoying picture to distract.
Talk about inept, Hell, I don't even know how to convert .sib into MP3. I thought I had it figured out with Statements for Clarinet and Sting Trio (this piece, instead of being called "Statements," was going to be called "Credit Memo" but that made even less sense). But when I posted it, as they say "No-Joy."
Thus the hard sounds for which I apologize.
Your music, on the other hand, is very attractive and well produced. I wish I could figure out how to get a sound like that.
Ah well, maybe in another life I'll figure out some of the tricks of the trade, but right now its time for a bowl of gruel and keeping an eye out for Sand Hill Cranes that we usually see up here about this time of year.
- At 3:02am on March 28, 2009,
Chris Alpiar said…
- Hi Richard welcome to the forum, how about posting some of your works so we can hear? :-)
- At 12:00am on March 28, 2009,
Fredrick zinos said…
- A few weeks ago, Roger Frisch, Associate Concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra was kind enough to perform my Serenade for Violin and Piano at Northwestern college.
I did not attend. Other of my "music" has been performed in Minnesota prompting then governor Jessie Ventura to enact a law stating that, on the basis of the noise my music makes, it would be appropriate for him to put me in a sleeper hold if I should set foot in Gopher-Land ever again.
- At 10:48pm on March 27, 2009,
Fredrick zinos said…
- nice stuff, very nice indeed!
St. Paul 'eh? I got a performance up there earlier this month.
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