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TOMB'S TONE(S)
CF at the Grave of Arnold Schoenberg, Vienna, December 2006
Note: the letters CF are both a pair of pitches, and the abbreviation of "Cantus firmus," a term in the study of counterpoint.
Greetings, Visitor, and welcome.
If you want to listen to pieces right away, perhaps you should just CLICK HERE to Go to the Main Body of Work and find things that interest you.
If you want to know where I think one good place to start is, probably the quickest way to get familiar with my music is to listen to my most recent orchestral work, MOYS ICOS. It is nine minutes long.
There is now a page for each of my PRINCIPAL WORKS and many others. There are many new pages with essays in both my WRITINGS ON MUSIC and OTHER WRITINGS sections.
I have recently uploaded the score of my first song cycle, THE TRUTH ABOUT CINDERELLA. It was written for a Liederabend for Hans Werner Henze at Tanglewood. The score is beautifully engraved - take a look!
There is also a new download for DOMES, the Third Michelangelo Fantasy, a Study of the Fourth Michelangelo Study, DEL SUO PEL CONTESTA. The program from the World Premiere of DOMES, given by Pacific Sticks under the direction of its director Kenneth Crawford, is included with the score.
I have recently been honored with an award from MusicaVeritas. To view the award ceremony, CLICK HERE.
When I was in Australia last month I wrote a song... During a layover in the Sydney Airport I translated the Georg Trakl poem "In den Nachmittag Gefluestert" into English - making sure to preserve the syllabic content too, since Trakl was heavily influenced by French poetry - and then over the next few days I wrote the setting. I don't mind saying I was very pleased with myself to do both the translation and the setting. This first work of mine to be written entirely in a foreign country is the newest item in my SONGS BOOK TWO. I was very pleased with the Australia coffee.
My involvement with Classics has again increased. I did a sexy translation of a naughty poem, the CATULLUS POEM 32. The essay on Homer, called OPERATION "TROJAN HORSE TAMER," is nearing completion and can be read as a work in progress. The answer to the great, 3200-year-old mystery will be revealed soon.
Though the idea for it seems pretty obvious, here at this site I now have the first "Interactive Concert Program" page I've ever heard of, my FIRST VIEWS OF THE FESTIVAL, that I made from my most recent concert; it is complete with videos, which you also can see at MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL.
A succinct one-page summary of my Sanskrit transliteration system, called MAHADEWANAGARI, is now online. There is also my MARTIAN SYLLABARY to see; more about this follows.
Hey, at CDBaby I'm having a SALE on my double CD set MODERNISM FOREVER - the price is just $7! Pick it up! After some time lying fallow, it has begun to sell a few copies again... please buy one!
Interestingly, the photo of MY COMPOSITION DESK is being downloaded regularly as a separate item. I will have it touched up by a computeroid professional. I would appreciate knowing of any use anybody makes of it, and like everything else here, use of it for no fee at this time does not imply it will be free forever.
I don't know why I didn't think of putting FACEBOOK and MYSPACE links on my home page before now. MySpace doesn't seem as popular with the Classical crowd.
Hey! I have a blog - let's discuss strategies for making Modernism popular again. Please check it out at my MODERNISM FOREVER BLOG.
That photo on the right is of me at the grave of the great composer Arnold Schoenberg, one of my artistic ancestors. The photo was taken in Vienna in December 2006, by my friend and patron Patricia Velarde. I am pleased to be able to demonstrate that I figured out what Schoenberg's tombstone - tomb's tone - is about. The Viennese devote a whole cemetery to their composers, whom they actually esteem. If you really like the photo here is a somewhat LARGER VERSION of it.
Best wishes,
Christopher