Jamie Klenetsky's Blog (5)

If you're in the NYC area, you should check out C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective, a new music ensemble dedicated to performing choral works written in the last 25 years. We only perform modern works. This concert features "The Temple Bells", my NYC compositional debut! For more information about the concerts, go to our website: c4ensemble.org. Continue

My piece for bassoon, "Departure, 10:49pm", was performed to a warm reception on Wednesday night. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to be there - I have bronchitis! The Marketing Director of the ACO told me that people really loved the piece, which I'm happy about :) And there's a recording coming my way, which I'll put up as soon as I get it. In other news, I finally completed a choral piece I'd started last January called "Kono Yoru (This Night)", which along with two other works ("Live Love", pos… Continue

I finished the piece right on time! It's called "Departure, 10:49pm", and is meant to evoke the end of a long day in NYC, coming home from Penn Station on the late train. (I write what I know!) I'll post it as soon as its completely finalized, I'm waiting for it to be critiqued. But hurray! Continue

So far the piece is about a minute and a half long. I have a three minute limit, and I'm not sure what to do at this point! It's fairly solid as it stands, but 1.5 minutes seems way too short. I'm wondering if I should expand the piece or just leave it...will need a couple of days to think that over. Continue

I'm trying to write/finish two pieces in less than a month. Oh joy :) One of them is bassoon solo, 3 minutes or less, for the "Compose Yourself" workshop being held by the American Composers Orchestra. I have a cool idea at least - my observations at Penn Station, taking the late train home - just need it to be interesting. I'm not good at solo pieces because I don't think that that horizontally. I need to be creative! Due: May 1. The second one is a choral piece (probably just S… Continue