I have also written a gamelan piece for my recital! It was actually premiered at FatCat (venue in the west village) on May 5th, which was very exciting. I wrote this piece during the Spring Break and it turned out to sound better than I expected, thanks to my friends who agreed to perform it! […]
new music
My compositions———-
First I’d like to present my most “academic” composition. I wrote this set of two art songs for voice and piano for my Music Theory 4 class so there were some requirements involve, like using the Neopolitan 6th….. but I made a little different than most art song collections by having the songs be for […]
Minimal.
Quite a lot of minimalism this past week at the Aaron Copland School of Music… I participated in performing Steve Reich’s “In C” in the atrium along with 15 other musicians… cool recording of an “In C” performing… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjR4QYsa9nE then Innovox performed minimal works of Philip Glass… And QC composers… A memorable piece was that […]
***Spring concerts***
Today the percussionists had a mini ragtime music concert outdoors (with only 2 marimbas and one xylophone as the instrumentation!). The idea of having it outside was cute and the music was cute, however the weather was not as cute as they probably expected from a Spring day! It was extremely windy and chilli. In […]
