Steve Chandler's Comments

Amazing music! I feel so blessed to hear your wonderful music. You have an amazing music gift.

Wonderful works

I find your prelude and fugue in g minor a wonderful piece, very impressed.

beautiful work.

Most of my videos were edited/rendered through Adobe Premiere Elements 7. The music tracks were recorded using a portable digital recorder - sometimes using mics, other times via a Yamaha keyboard using MIDI. The WAV files are easily to work with in PE7.

While I am not all that successful, I think that making videos and using your own music is a good way to publish music so it can be listened to by anyone. ...s

I listened to the America piece: the chord choices you made did not suit the soprano and alto, which were often quite traditional. And so the rhapsodic piece seemed to have idiosyncratic chord choices (which is common, usual, okay): but I did not feel "convinced."

I am listening to your Rhapsody. It has some smart moments in it. The digital performance makes the music harder to stick with. I like the ideas. Again, I am not sure about the harmonic language: it goes from traditional to atonal. I feel a lot more convinced in this work. I like the last few minutes a lot.

The Wobbly Waltz is nice. I follow it easily, and understand a direction. Really good work.

Done - (at least an hors d'oeuvre.) . I hope to put more up soon.

Hi Steve.....and a happy Christmas to you.....Got my computer up and running properly again now. I did contact Jeffrey Beigel thank you on Facebook and he has replied..........not had any further comments yet....waiting with anticipation......lol. I couldn't sned the MP3's for him as they were too big for my ISP to allow but did point to my webpage where I've posted the Concerto on a Player........the link is as follows.....there's a couple of choral things on there too. I'd be interested in your own comments on the Lyrie which was a challenge to write with electronic voice samples but did work in the end.

Now I'm up and running I intend to get round this site a bit more again now.....starting with some of your dots.....Thanks again for the contact.....hope Jeff can find time to listen.......will get back to you soon
Many thanks
Andy.S

Thank you Steve for your kind comments. I've sadly been without computer for 8 months following major problem and this is first day back up and running (limping actually) so was great to get your email. I will certainly contact JB as you suggest. I have unfortunately not yet scored the Concerto and it will probably take some time but I'll certainly point him in the right direction.....I'll be very very interested in his comments. Thank you again so much for this contact.
Andy.S

I've listened to yer symphony 3 times. I like it.

Since I'm far away---you can believe it's the truth. If I was around in person you might think I was just saying that so's you wouldn't use yer martial arts skill on me---heh, heh.

But really, impressive work.

Steve,

You might get a kick out of "American Songs" now on my home page.

Thanks

Thanks Steve. The Doh, Ray, Me thing was accidental, honestly. When I studied music, I never used that nomenclature, but in describing the motif of the finale, it seemed more appropriate because had I called to account the actual notes it would not have related to later instances of the motif in different keys. (I could have said, tonic-supertonic-mediant, but some people might not have understood it). Therefore, I was never aware of the spelling (I probably got it from the spelling associated with ''The Sound of Music'' song, although Do would then have been Doe).

As far as the samples are concerned, I agree, but I'm not about to blame my tools because I know that my production skills need improving, and any orchestra libraries out there that are better than the ones that I have now are also a hell of a lot more expensive. And as I am primarily a concert composer (wannabe) as opposed to a cinematic one, production isn't by any means as important as it would be if it were be transposed directly to film. My biggest desire, obviously, is to have my work played live. That is what I strive for.

It used to be that one could shuffle one's playlist. However, whilst other aspects of this great site are evolving, it seems that this particular service has now been disabled. If you thought you were listening to my symphony after having listened to 'Spirit of the Stour' ('Stour' is the name of the river in the city of Canterbury), Alphabet Green and Flanders, you must have thought I was a pretty inconsistent composer. After you've familiarised yourself with the order of play, I'd love to know how you liked the whole symphony.

Thanks again

Michael...listening to the prelude and fugue..interesting colors and very well developed..congrats

Hi Steve,

stopped by to listen to some of your music. I haven't heard all of it. I will stop by again to finish my session and give a proper comment.

Dear Steve Chandler, Thanks a lot for your kindly comment. Fortunately, we are fine phisicaly, but unfortunately we saw so bad events in Tehran, and a lot people were kiled in Tehran. only the happy news for me was my first prize in international composition competition(2 Agosto) in Bologna,Italy in this week! I am so happy that I have a lot of friends in this forum such as you.best regards.Amir

Hello Steve, I managed to put some of music in Mp3 on my page....there is more to come. I am going to listen to your music....best,

henk

Thanks for the request. I'm glad you enjoyed "A new heaven".
I'll be sure to stop by and check out your music and leave a comment.

Take care,
Hansani

Hi Steve, I have to change an aiff-file into a mp3-file. I have no idea how to do that.

best,

henk