Fredrick zinos's Comments

Fred, I just read your Bio. It triggered a laughing attack that almost went into an asthma attack. I demand that you mail me an inhaler, or other suitable pharmacological agent.

Fredrick,

    The quality of posts has been flagging lately.  How about posting something.  Something old?  We new comers would like to hear more of your work.

Lawrence Aurich

Hey, Fredrick... I spent some time listening to your music today. I especially liked your "Scherzo 1882 for Wind Quintet", "American Songs", and "Statements for Clarinet and String Trio". Great stuff!

Thank you for your comment! I'm still getting used to using the VSTs on Cubase to achieve the sounds I want but it's getting easier with every composition :-)

fredrick- I just got home at 11 PM, checking the internet...wow! Thanks for the support, I appreciate it. I'm trying to do the best I can with help from my friends ...and just maybe the album will reach a high standard, provide some good entertainment. Thanks again for the encouragement- It means a lot coming from you.

Thank you Frederick for your comments on my Variations..I sincerely appreciate your input....I will eventually get to the impressionistic period...but I must make a stop first on the romantics.....thanks for listening....

Thanks for your comments on Cor Agitur! You're absolutely right. I need to develop this brief exercise into a fully fleshed-out piece with a contrasting theme. It's really not far out at all, by modern standards. Nonetheless, except even doing this much pushed me way beyond what I thought I would ever do. Still, I'm glad you thought it held together. Unity and coherence are important ideals for me, even in "experimental" music.

It's interesting that you should write, "I only wish I had your skill and talent," to me, because I wish I had your adventurous way with harmony. I am glad that there is a Fredrick Zinos lending his voice to the musical arts. 

Despite the self-disparagement in your profile with regard to your talent, I think you write with an interesting voice. Your music is harmonically adventurous, fluent, and structurally sound. Well done! 

Wonderful Works

Three Easy Pieces, currently the first track:

Here, I thought I began to hear harmonic limitations, and was going to suggest that you steal copiously from jazz (four and five, even six note chords). But now we are moving along into the piece, and I see that you have a wide range of harmonies available to you.

You're bluffing. You know more than you let on. You understand balance, form, texture, voice-leading. Your harmonies are not tradtional, not exactly, but as we all know, strictly traditional harmonies are verboten in 2012. 

Now I am into your orchestral work, track 2: you put a lot of work into it, and it's better than a lot of stuff I hear routinely on these sorts of websites. It has a real easy program to follow, which is completely intentional. I'm still not sure, and I think it's funny that I'm not sure how much you really understand harmony. I think you have a fantastic ear, which beats pedantry any day.

Further along in that same orchestral work, I am a little lost in the extended development, in the sense that you might have lost the sense of balance. (who hasn't?) But maybe not: as you say, critics are wrong (almost) every time. 

I'm waiting for the finish: it happened fast. You have a trove of great ideas in that Essay.

...By the way, no one has it right about Pope Greg VI. He ordered people around of course, and tried to get the Mass, the liturgy sorted out by delegating. Those chants took a long time to coalesce into "Gregorian-mix" - and as usual, those in power took advantage of the situation. Chants still exist, such as Milanese, Ambrosian, Syriac, Sarum, but they were officially drowned out by mandates - or became part of the East-West church-split debacle.  

Serenade for violin and piano, I chose that, today.

Your self-deprecating sense of humorplay is reminiscent of days I spent as a pharmacy technician inpatient, in the 1980s. I knew many RPhs who could play, write music, and tell jokes. One pharmacist, at the VA in NYC used to bring symphonic scores with him to work.

Like most of us, I doubt he could really hear them in his head. There is a great deal of bluffing going on the music world; but there really are composers and conductors out there who can indeed hear more than we pessimists like to think. One can test a person's aural skills, if push comes to shove...

Your curriculum vitae through the ages was entertaining reading. Accessing the ages in the near-past tense is a good way to get into a composer's mind, and entertain your gentle readers. I will never forget how god awful Beethoven's cramped room smelled: the chamber pot pushed to the side of the piano - he had such dreadful bouts of diarrhea - but who didn't in those days?

Needless to say, between that and his temper, he could not maintain a housekeeper. But he wrote good music, just the same, and we are glad to still have copies. I kept mine.

Your own Serenade was easy to enjoy, as pure music: nothing wrong with it - has structure and direction.

 All of us are trapped in the VST pit - bad samples that make our music sound like it was processed through a latter-day tin whistle. I would suggest slowing down the piece a bit, as if it were played by someone who was not yet intimate with it. And then, add lots of dynamics into the score. You might find he result more enjoyable. Then, you can depreciate yourself a little less.  

Thanks for the welcoming. My site will be ready in about 2-3 weeks from now. you can listen there to my music. For now, you can visit www.youtube.com/kosxen, to listen to some of my pieces. or else you can hear a small sample in http://www.amazon.com/Meditate/dp/B006ITDAA4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1326130626&sr=8-1 

Thank you very much Fredrick! 

Happy New Year Fredrick. I just saw your comment on Keman's latest piece and couldn't keep back a smile. Your comments on people's music are always fun to read for their sharp wit. I hope your composing is going well.

Robert Hunter

Hi Fredrick,

Thanks for your lovely comment! I really like the pieces you have on here. Especially the string trio. Did you record it live or did you use the computer? They sound so realistic! 

Charlotte

Thanks! But it seems schorch wont let me print to file (pdf), I don't have a printer, and lastly it would make my life so much easier if I had the sibelius file (or finale, or midi, or whatever you prefer), which is also not downloadable :P

So, if it's ok, send the score to my email :D If not, I'll find a printer, no worries.

I just hope this can be adapted, it would be cool to play it (but I'll be honest, I don't see myself learning it in the near future...already got so much to play)

I'm talking about the fugue in D mion for string trio. 

I guess I can give it a shot, can you send me the score? I might get down to it tonight.