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Patrik Ohlsson left a comment for henk alkema"Thank you Henk.
I really like your music too, very cinematic but not obvious. Interesting harmonies, very expressive. Tonal with a modal touch, a sun-coated dark like with an eclipse.
/Patrik"
Wendy Boots left a comment for henk alkema"Hi Henk
Thanks for your compliments and advice on my music! Everything stays 'in progress' as I say. Music is never 'finished'.
Greetings Wendy"
henk alkema left a comment for Wendy Boots"Hello Wendy, I listened to Dance Scuplture op. 4. Nice dramatic flavour and a great melodic line. If you had an different orchestral surrounding for your melody it would have sound as a real adagio of a symphony. One little advice if you allow me to…"
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henk alkema left a comment for Emmanuelle Fonsny"Hello Emanuelle, what I mean by "tonal music with wrong notes" is that your piece is in a kind of perfect balance.....(tonality has not so much to do with pitch)...cluster music grouped in 4+4+4+4 do I experience as tonal. Because of the…"
Emmanuelle Fonsny left a comment for henk alkema"Hi there,
interesting comment... I must say those are harmonies I like. But for something a little different, you may want to listen to my clarinet quartet, it's definitely not as civilised! ^^
Manu"
henk alkema left a comment for Emmanuelle Fonsny"Hello Emanuelle, I listened to your piano piece and what I heard was "tonal music with wrong notes". Is this what you aim for? I think it is not crazy enough, to decent and civilized....with due respect. Surprise me please by unexpected…"
Christopher Sahar left a comment for henk alkema"Please post more highlifghts from your opera - some of the best stuff i hvae hear on many composer websites."
henk alkema left a comment for Christopher Sahar"Thanks for your nice words. The Vatar Unser is the final part of a full length opera, performed 7 times. The recording you heard is a life-recording. I will put some more of the opera on this forum."
Christopher Sahar left a comment for henk alkema"Extremely accomplished writing there henk. Vater unser I enjoyed how you broke up the phrases before creating a longer line. Harmonies interesting - reminds me of Frank Martin and a more tonal Poulenc with some more modern currents. Can tell too you…"
henk alkema posted a blog postrita joe
Rita Joe is a Mic Mac poet and she lived in Nova Scotia. I wrote a song cicle of 18 songs sung by Ann Maas and myself on the piano.
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rita joe
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Rita Joe is a Mic Mac poet and she lived in Nova Scotia. I wrote a song cicle of 18 songs sung by Ann Maas and myself on the piano.
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- At 10:33am on March 3, 2010, Patrik Ohlsson said…
- Thank you Henk.
I really like your music too, very cinematic but not obvious. Interesting harmonies, very expressive. Tonal with a modal touch, a sun-coated dark like with an eclipse.
/Patrik
- At 7:54am on December 26, 2009, Wendy Boots said…
- Hi Henk
Thanks for your compliments and advice on my music! Everything stays 'in progress' as I say. Music is never 'finished'.
Greetings Wendy
- At 6:27pm on October 18, 2009, Emmanuelle Fonsny said…
- Hi there,
interesting comment... I must say those are harmonies I like. But for something a little different, you may want to listen to my clarinet quartet, it's definitely not as civilised! ^^
Manu
- At 9:22am on September 11, 2009, Christopher Sahar said…
- Please post more highlifghts from your opera - some of the best stuff i hvae hear on many composer websites.
- At 9:07pm on September 5, 2009, Christopher Sahar said…
- Extremely accomplished writing there henk. Vater unser I enjoyed how you broke up the phrases before creating a longer line. Harmonies interesting - reminds me of Frank Martin and a more tonal Poulenc with some more modern currents. Can tell too you know your Bach cantatas. To pull off the final cadence (believe minor V to major I) after the chords with the added 2nds and 4ths preceding and seemingly moving off to a chromatic tangent was excellent.
- At 9:32am on June 7, 2009,
Steve Chandler said…
- Henk,
Your music is beautiful and interesting. I love choral music and the combination with orchestra is very effective. Thanks for posting it.
- At 10:11am on May 29, 2009,
- If you're on a PC try downloading Lame from here, http://lame.sourceforge.net/download.php. The software is free and is available for Mac, PC or Linux. that should allow you to change formats with relative ease.
- At 8:58am on May 29, 2009,
- Henk,
Neither piece actually plays. It would be nice to hear some of your music.
- At 5:40pm on April 6, 2009,
Andreas van Haren said… - Heb je al muziek ergens geupload, Henk? Misschien een van je liederen? Is een goede manier om ze snel te laten circuleren. Ik heb het idee om er ooit van te kunnen leven opgegeven dus ik et gewoon alles dat ik maak op het net. Zolang mijn naam eraan verbonden blijft vind ik het best.
- At 11:40pm on March 29, 2009,
Chris Alpiar said… - yes please, add some music! :-)
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