Two weekends ago I had the honor of having two of my compositions premiered here in the Los Angeles Area. The first called “Arise” was premiered by The San Bernardino Symphony under the baton of Anthony Parnther, and the second entitled “Lamentations” was premiered the same night by Thomasz Golka and The Riverside Philharmonic. Quite interestingly, the pieces were literally …
I made this fun little musical recipe to make your own recitatives Mozart style. Of course the Master uses way more tricks than this but this is enough to get you started and cover 75% of His applications. Its quite hard to type figured bass in a web browser so pardon by ghetto notation. Global assumptions: a) I can be …
When a viewer observes a painting there is a “oh, well there it is” moment when the frame is first presented – it is first taken in as a whole and then the details are discovered upon closer examination. Music is also largely in the moment – details first – and then the whole comes second if it comes at …
