Raghs

https://apricitymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Raghs-Recording.mp3   Raghs Full Score Description Raghs (the Farsi word for dance) is a celebration of Persian dance music and an exploration of my Iranian heritage. Raghs was premiered on May 7, 2019 at the UCLA Spring Undergraduate Composition Concert, Jan Popper Theater, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. The performers in this recording are: Alice Townsend… Read More

“freeze-frame, or: the beauty myth”

This piece was performed for the CLUTCH II Recital Series on November 12, 2019 at the Butler School of Music in Austin, TX. Camera shutter – stutter, flash, click-ck and s-snap. A cinematographic technique in which a single frame shows repeatedly, producing a static shot that resembles a still photograph. “freeze-frame, or: the beauty myth”… Read More

Dances from a White Wicker Drawer

  Dances from a White Wicker Drawer Full Score "Dances from a White Wicker Drawer" is about memories, or rather what’s left of them. One of the first patients I had met as a hospice patient support volunteer was a once-vibrant woman named Alice (name changed), who was suffering from late-stage Alzheimer’s disease, a disease… Read More

Two Variations on a Theme by Sousa

https://apricitymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Clutch_ENS_11-12-2019_Nell_TwoVariationsOnAThemeBySousa.wav Two Variations on a Theme by Sousa Full Score "Two Variations on a Theme by Sousa" is a playful expansion of the first few seconds of one of John Phillip Sousa's famous marches, "The Fairest of the Fair." The piece was conceived during a car ride; I was overcome with inspiration by a particular… Read More

Random Road

Random Road by Collin Kemeny (b. 1995) performed at the 13th Annual Colorado Composers Concert Flute: Sonya Yeaker-Meeks Clarinet: Brian Ebert Violin: Sarah Whitnah Piano: Joshua Sawicki Cello: Jake Saunders Percussion: Rachel Hargroder Conductor: Richard vonFoerster Program Note Random Road is the first piece to a suite that captures the composer’s nostalgia for his old… Read More

Songs of Uncertainty – II. snow, ice, burning sand

  Songs of Uncertainty is a song cycle in four parts, written for two sopranos and mixed chamber ensemble set with poems from writer and poet Stephen Crane's The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895). While the poems date back over a century, its themes remain strongly relevant today. Our search for something idealized and… Read More

Accumulation

Jessy Eubanks · Accumulation Sound Installation, Winter 2019 Featuring the voices of Avery Yebernetsky, Akshaya Tucker, David Fong, Emily Gittins, Brian Ellis, Emma Boardman-Larson, Josh Barker, Luke Berringer, Sabrina Mari Uriegas, Jessy Eubanks I put “Accumulation” together in my junior year of college, the fall of 2017. In 2019 I revisited the concept - I… Read More

L’Étranger

Commissioned by the Zodiac Music Academy & Festival 2018. Recorded in Église Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur de La Bolline Valdeblore, France on July 14th, 2018 "L'Étranger" Full Score “In our society any man who does not weep at his mother's funeral runs the risk of being sentenced to death.” --Albert Camus, 1955. “L’Étranger” is inspired by the 1942… Read More