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| NameSongs
(2000-2007) for solo piano NameSongs is a set of short solo piano pieces which I started to compose in 2000, and which has become an ongoing project. Based on the letters of the alphabet which make up the names of friends and acquaintances (the names are withheld here to protect the innocent!), these short pieces are really portraits. So, like a painter's portrait, these musical portraits reveal as much about their subjects as they do about their maker. (In fact, in some cases they reflect me much more than the people on whose names they are based.) All of the musical pitches are derived from the names' letters, but the melodic contours, rhythms, textures and forms of each piece come from the working and shaping of these notes... (Okay, okay -- it's really just another excuse to compose!) [Audio - NameSong, I. Magnussen/Computer, piano] [Name Song, I. score - pdf] [Audio - NameSong, II. Magnussen/Computer, piano] [NameSong, II. score - pdf] [Audio - NameSong, III. Blair McMillen, piano] [NameSong, III. score - pdf] |
| Kaleimanu's
Dream (2003) 6 min (ca.) for solo guitar Composed for Antigoni Goni [score - pdf] |
| For
Patsy (2002)
4 min for solo piano First Performance:
December 13, 2002
VisionIntoArt and Rock Hotel PianoFest's "A PianoBowl of Premieres" Orion Weiss, piano Society for Ethical Culture New York, New York For Patsy Labalme [Real Audio - Jon Magnussen, piano] [score - pdf] |
| Toccare! (2001)
9 min. for solo piano First Performance:
July 28, 2001
Blair McMillen, piano Walden School Dublin, New Hampshire NY Premiere: Blair McMillen, piano ABT Studio Company with new choreography by Robert Hill Kaye Playhouse New York, New York Commissioned by Blair McMillen [Audio - Blair McMillen, piano] [score - pdf] [note - pdf] |
| Ici, là,
là-bas (1994) for choreography by Franck
Baranek 8 min. solo violoncello, digital reverb/delay effects box First Performance:
December, 1994
David Eggar, violoncello Paul Hall, The Juilliard School New York, New York For David Eggar |
(18 July 2008)