Peaceful and evenly-paced. Piano and orchestra with lots of interplay between oboe, clarinet, English horn, and bassoon. Strings are here, too.
A sister composition titled ‘Northeast at Evening"‘ will be released here soon.
Writing these two pieces was an exercise in calm. Needed in these tormented times. Hope you feel at peace listening.
You can click the imae below to download your own copy.
‘La Chatte Perdue’ clocks in at over 16 minutes long. Full orchestra.
More info and audio previews available in the store.
Twelve of my original musical compositions can now be downloaded in high-quality Audio Interchange File Format. These .AIF files can be played by most recent audio players including Microsoft Windows Media Player (Windows), Apple QuickTime Player (Mac), Apple Music (Mac), and VideoLAN VLC media player (multiplatform).
The tracks range across several genres including jazz, orchestral/classical, new age, and even bluegrass. You can listen to MP3 audio previews here.
Writing these has been a real source of joy for me - my hope is that listening to them allows you to experience the magic of music.
February 2022
I wrote this composition to express my support for and solidarity with a free and democratic Ukraine.
You are welcome to download and share for personal use with the only restriction being that it may not be used as part of another work of audiovisual art without permission. I encourage you to share it, and to contact your government representatives to express your support for Ukraine and your opposition to the invasion of a sovereign country by the dictator tyrant Vladimir Putin.
The human voices are from the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir of Tallinn as recorded by Orchestral Tools. The nightingale singing was recorded May 07 2009 near Muenster, Germany by Guido Gerding and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license.
Track artwork for ‘From a Dream to a Day’.
Track artwork for ‘Uh-Oh’.
Yikes. Over here on the music side of life, I’ve not updated this blog for a very long time.
So:
There are some new compositions. A couple of jazzy ones and a couple of orchestral ones. As soon as I get things straightened out with Apple about why a lot of my work does not seem to appear on my Apple Music artists page, I’ll update here with all of the links.
In the meantime, there are excerpts to hear here. And here. Enjoy.
Now only $1.99 for 643 seconds of original music - that's 18 cents per minute! But wait. There's more. You don't have to pay every time you play it! You only pay once and then you can listen to it FREE FOREVER!
When "On A Rising Wind" was released to iTunes, apple priced it as an EP at $9.99. Of course, TOTALLY WORTH IT for over ten-and-a-half minutes of music! But my intention was to price it as a single composition at merely $1.99. After a bit of intervention through official channels, the price has now been "corrected." Let the flood of downloads begin!
My longest composition so far. I have been volunteering with the National Park Service doing some raptor monitoring, and have had flight on my mind a lot lately. I think some of the musical themes in "On A Rising Wind" reflect that.
The track photo is a composite of two of my photos with an falcon in the foreground and some nice scenery in Rocky Mountain National Park in the background.
