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America

Ron Riekki has been awarded a 2014 Michigan Notable Book, 2015 The Best Small Fictions, 2016 Shenandoah Fiction Prize, 2016 IPPY Award, 2019 Red Rock Film Fest Award, 2019 Best of the Net finalist, 2019 Très Court International Film Festival Audience Award and Grand Prix, 2020 Dracula Film Festival Vladutz Trophy, 2020 Rhysling Anthology inclusion, and 2022 Pushcart Prize. Right now, Riekki’s listening to Elliott Smith’s “Between the Bars.”

Mayn Shprach: Yiddish Art Songs by Lazar Weiner

“Mayn Shprach: Yiddish Arts Songs by Lazar Weiner” is an album recorded by bass-baritone Mikhail Smigelski and pianist Jeanne Hourez, released via Ladoga Records. Lazar Weiner (1897-1982), an American composer of Jewish-Ukrainian descent, was the most prominent creator of classical music in Yiddish. Weiner instinctively understood and interpreted the nuances, tonality, inflections, accentuations, spoken rhythms, and idioms of this language. This album pays homage to this undeservedly forgotten composer and the Yiddish language, which was once among the most widely spoken languages in Europe but has nearly disappeared today.

War Requiem

This is a requiem and not an elegy. As such, emotional sentimentalism is avoided.

For Annie

An original song called “For Annie” which appeared in the original rock opera The Long Goodbye which debuted in 2022 in Memphis, TN. Within the song, the narrator grapples with their own inability to reconcile or change the progression of events towards Annie’s death.

Guadalupe

Guadalupe is a song about the Guadalupe River in Texas and about the legend of La Lady De Guadalupe who the river is named after. It is a simple song but musically I wanted as distinctive a sound as Harry Belafonte’s Bananna Boat song.

Dinner Date

A sparse restaurant.
The place is fairly empty except for a woman sitting a table. She stands out in the environment in a red dress, her hair big, teased, and backcombed, resembling a lion’s mane. Over her shoulders she wears a fur stole. This is OLIVIA.

Stains

You remember that night, right? I spent all those years trying
to get you to notice me. It felt like torture, and you’d just
walk by me without noticing me. I’d just stand there like an
idiot wondering what to do next. I’m glad you finally started
looking at me once we grew up, I don’t know what I would’ve done if we weren’t … Are we still awake?

Restoring Romeo

Restoring Romeo The script won second place in the William Faulkner Literary Competition: One-Act Play, New Albany, Mississippi, 2022 and is published in "London: Smoke, Blokes and Jokes of Foggy Town", Red Penguin, 2022. There have been Zoom readings in New York, Nashville, West Hollywood, Cocoa Beach (Florida), West Hollywood and Paris (France). Celebrated actor… Read More

Suite for String Orchestra

https://apricitymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Suite_for_String_Orchestra_and_Piano.wav 'Suite for String Orchestra' is a an original contemporary orchestra composition score with audio. Creator Commentary Patrick Riley, though an undiscovered compositional voice, has been a very active educator and performer of music throughout his career. As a composer, Riley often attempts to incorporate elements of the styles he performed frequently, which include jazz,… Read More