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Karl Henning

#40
February 04, 2025, 03:28:40 PM
Very nice work by Carson:
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

pjme

#41
February 05, 2025, 04:28:47 AM
https://www.npoklassiek.nl/concerten/9dacc889-b397-4991-8574-cf8c26f936b2/een-nieuw-vioolconcert-en-een-bewezen-meesterwerk

Joey Roukens new and (imo) masterly second violinconcerto, "Out of the deep".

Roukens (40) suffers from tinnitus....and composing can be very difficult for him ("I have a vacuum cleaner in my head")...
Anyway, I was positively impressed by this dark, quite angry work and the excellent performnce by simone Lamsma. 

Christo

#42
February 05, 2025, 11:57:54 AM Last Edit: February 05, 2025, 11:59:48 AM by Christo
Quote from: pjme on February 05, 2025, 04:28:47 AMhttps://www.npoklassiek.nl/concerten/9dacc889-b397-4991-8574-cf8c26f936b2/een-nieuw-vioolconcert-en-een-bewezen-meesterwerk

Joey Roukens new and (imo) masterly second violinconcerto, "Out of the deep".

Roukens (40) suffers from tinnitus....and composing can be very difficult for him ("I have a vacuum cleaner in my head")...
Anyway, I was positively impressed by this dark, quite angry work and the excellent performnce by simone Lamsma.
Saw him on a dozen of occasions, esp. with premieres in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw (e.g. the concerto for two pianos and orchestra, "In Unison," written for young virtuosi, Lucas & Arthur Jussen, premiered Sunday 12 December 2021: https://www.concertgebouw.nl/concerten/38125-lucas-arthur-jussen-te-gast-bij-het-radio-filharmonisch-orkest. Last September in an open air concert by the Royal Concertgebouw hosted by Queen Maxima, with Joey on the platform after his equally busy 'Tango' for orchestra had the 3000 audiense almost dance.  :)
                                                                   
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

hopefullytrusting

#43
September 12, 2025, 09:40:41 PM
Courtney Bryan
https://www.courtneybryan.com/
https://www.instagram.com/cbryanmusic/?hl=en

Footsteps of a Queen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEo3vK-qVfQ

I've not heard a piece with such deep resonant tones in some time. The notes are drawn out enough to hook and then it laps us back in under a moonlit sky - "the sea lifts and falls all night, the moon goes on through the unattached heavens alone" (Robert Bly). :)

hopefullytrusting

#44
September 15, 2025, 07:23:42 AM
David T. Little
https://davidtlittle.com/
https://www.instagram.com/davidtlittle/

Ghostlight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9d6cK2bP_Y

As if a will-of-the-wisp came to life - there are spectral qualities as it crawls into a soundscape that pierces the ear, and extended techniques, incorporating the breath - powerful percussive/staccato thrusts from the winds was particularly impressive. It has a clear drive, and it envelops the listener in that transitory phase between dusk and dawn - not quite twilight, not quite night - but the dream of it in its vagaries - you almost feel as if you can touch it, and while it is complex and dissonant - I do think much of it would be pleasing to a child, especially a child who is learning about space.

Highest recommendation! :)

hopefullytrusting

#45
October 25, 2025, 06:16:04 AM
An amazing program in which the composers introduce their own pieces: Danity Pike, Richard Wernick, Ted Hearne, James Lee III, and Vivian Fung:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAxgHYiGkEc
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