Jan 11, 2018
365 Days of Listening: Day 11, 11/1/17 more from Airas Ensemble! i am so in love with their playing 😍
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365 Days of Listening: Day 11, 11/1/17 more from Airas Ensemble! i am so in love with their playing 😍
In the spring of 2016, I had a dream and in it I heard four measures of music. That is what this piece was initially based off. But then it underwent a transformation as I blasted the dream with doses of reality. While it isn’t as obvious to the listener, it is still prominent throughout the entire piece. I hope you enjoy!
The date it debuted on was Saturday, April 29th, and the performers are pictured above
Divertimento for a Woodwind Quartet Op 74: This is a short, very approachable, happy and easy going piece. Musically, it is polytonal with each instrument, by and large, playing in its own key (Flute G major, Oboe D major, Clarinet A major and Bassoon E major). A, E, F#, and B are the shared notes. The piece ends in G but throughout it does not establish a tonal centre.
Tonight.
I finished a piece that was inspired by my younger brother. He has ADHD that has been socially crippling at times in his life. If provoked, he can easily get extremely upset and suddenly shut off. He gets in his own world and he sort of elbows out people interrupting that, and he's learned to make that his way of becoming calm and balanced again.
I don't think I ever fully understood that until I wrote this piece. We have had a very tense relationship in the past but I really feel like that has been released in a way this past year. And I'm happy about that. I'm happy music can do that. It's ok to be happy about cliche things showing themselves to be true.
I look forward to hearing Dal Niente playing it and being able to share it with him.
This is my sister and her woodwind quartet! They played This is Berk from How to Train Your Dragon and my sister arranged it herself!!! :D :D :D This is her tumblr: http://exuberant-imperfection.tumblr.com/
So tonight was the last concert of my second year! It was the chamber class's final concert, so each group performed one piece. My quartet (we couldn't find a horn player) performed two movements from Laszlo Lajtha's Quatre Hommage. Its a super hard piece but a lot of fun to play, and it turned out pretty well. And with that I have no more performances at school until next year!
Its crazy to think that in under a month I will be back in my hometown and halfway done with university.