Not as grandiose, more sentimental and a bit more barbaric.
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Added by Jeff Harrington on November 5, 2009 at 5:07pm —
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I've written my first in a set of nocturnes for piano. It consists of layers of quiet sounds building up like waves crashing on rocks until it becomes symphonic in scope. It's simultaneously one of the most static and one of the most active pieces I've ever written. Elsie described it as something like Le Gibet plus Radiohead. The score will be available sometime next week.
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Added by Jeff Harrington on October 24, 2009 at 12:55pm —
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This summer was very productive for me; the results being a big piece for cello and piano, a solo guitar piece written for the fabulous Philippe Bertaud, and a piece for flute and guitar.
Undertow, is my new piece for cello and piano. It's got a monstrous bluesy beginning which pushes the piece into alternating hyper-rhythmic sections with impressionistic/romantic sections. The score and parts are finished and available for download.…
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Added by Jeff Harrington on October 7, 2009 at 3:01pm —
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Here's the live recording of the Paris premiere of my String Quartet #5 by Quatuor de l'Orchestre 2021. I finally got permission to put it up (thanks to Nigel Keay for the great playing and organizing!). It's a very passionate live performance of high intensity. The quartet is dedicated to Nigel Keay who asked for it's arrangement and was 'instrumental' (pun intended) in organizing it's premiere!…
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Added by Jeff Harrington on June 26, 2009 at 1:41pm —
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I just finished a solo flute piece, Fée des Cimes and it is 6 minutes of wild flight. Here's a draft score:
Fée des Cimes for Solo Flute - Draft Score
Fée des Cimes - Synthesized Recording
Sunday night, the great poly-stylistic mandolinist Mike Marshall and Gyan Riley (Terry Riley's son) will prem…
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Added by Jeff Harrington on June 4, 2009 at 1:30pm —
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I've finished a piece commissioned by Brian Kauth for his group, the Traverser Saxophone Quartet. It's my most radical piece since I stopped writing complex atonal music back in the 80's, full of incredibly wrong notes that are intended to sound incredibly right. There are quartertones throughout the piece serving both as coloristic and as harmonic devices. The piece, also captures something of the rainy mangrove jungle we live in the middle of down here on Sanibel Island. When we were looking f…
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Added by Jeff Harrington on May 20, 2009 at 11:54am —
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I've finished a new piece for violin and cello,
Two Swords Crossed. It's one of my most romantic pieces yet, employing some African/minimalist rhythmic conventions and Middle-Eastern melodic inspirations, within a soaring harmonic framework.
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Added by Jeff Harrington on May 14, 2009 at 1:30pm —
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April 30 at the Fondation des Etats-Unis, my fifth string quartet will be premiered in Paris. The performers are:
Aude de Larouzière - violin 1
Guan-Xi Masse - violin 2
Nigel Keay - viola
Bénédicte de Larouzière - cello
String Quartet #5 is a transcription/extension of my string trio, Tetra-Mnemosyne VII. I'm told that a studio recording is also in the works and I'll put this up as soon as possible!
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Added by Jeff Harrington on April 6, 2009 at 7:00am —
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My Fifth String Quartet, an arrangment of my string trio
Tetra-Mnemosyne VII, is going to have its world premiere at a festival celebrating American culture in the Jardin d’Acclimatation in Paris sometime between April 11 and May 10. I'll be finding out the exact date shortly. Thanks again goes to my good friend composer/violist,
Nigel Keay for sug…
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Added by Jeff Harrington on March 19, 2009 at 3:00pm —
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I've finished a 7 minute piece for solo cello that I wrote for Jon Silpayamanant called The Empty Fist. It's got almost constant cross rhythms and is still in the process of review by Jon for any changes (hopefully slight). Here's a MP3 of a MIDI realization of the initial version:
The Empty Fist for Solo Cello - MIDI Realization
Also, I got email from Maestro Keyvan Yahya of the Tehran Symphony and rehearsals for my 2nd symphony are g…
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Added by Jeff Harrington on March 14, 2009 at 2:00pm —
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I've finished an ambitious new piece for the outstanding German mandolin and guitar duo,
Duo Ahlert und Schwab, which we've named Bidon Cinque. It uses material inspired by Middle Eastern and traditional American folk music and is about 14 minutes long.
Bidon Cinque for Mandolin and Guitar
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Added by Jeff Harrington on February 20, 2009 at 3:43pm —
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I'm busy finishing up a new piece for Birgit Schwab and Daniel Ahlert (Duo Ahlert und Schwab). This will the be the third piece I've written for them. The first two,
Erg and
Cassotis have been recorded and played on numerous concerts around the world, so it's a real privileg…
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Added by Jeff Harrington on February 12, 2009 at 1:30pm —
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I'm working on the 1st symphony now. It's a score from 1994 and was written, like most of my music before 2000 or so, on my Amiga 3000 using Deluxe Music Construction Set and a bunch of little apps that produced counterpoint, and variational possibilities. I'd just gotten laid off from the Society for the Right to Die with a nice $6000 severance check. I bought a new synth module so that I could hear 64 voices at once, got on unemployment and then spent 2 months in Brooklyn writing it. The score…
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Added by Jeff Harrington on January 26, 2009 at 3:30pm —
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I was contacted last last year by the Iranian conductor, Keyvan Yahya about performing my
first and
second symphonies with the Tehran Symphony, Asia's oldest classical music ensemble, founded in 1938. I've since finally polished the score to my 2nd symphony. He plans on performing and r…
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Added by Jeff Harrington on January 23, 2009 at 6:19pm —
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We're trying to make a little money and Elsie's been dragged back into doing some art, but small and on commission only. We just don't have room for a studio here. So we set up a little
Etsy storefront. Here's some examples:
Here's a pencil drawing of me about 10 years ago with the long hair.
A oil sketch of our friend Ben, who now lives in Ore…
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Added by Jeff Harrington on September 8, 2008 at 4:30pm —
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Fay, the first hurricane since we moved to a little semi-tropical island off of the southwest coast of Florida in February is targeting us. We've just come back from the store with extra peanut butter and wine and Elsie's got an extra loaf of homemade bread in the breadmaker, so I think we'll be fine. I've got my mini-disc recorder charged up and will attempt to record some high speed wind shrieks. Doesn't look like we'll have to evacuate at this point, but Monday afternoon's projection will be…
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Added by Jeff Harrington on August 17, 2008 at 3:00pm —
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I first started NetNewMusic back in 1994 as a placeholder for MP3 links of friends on rec.music.compose. I had no webspace of my own at the time so I :snicker: made a secret subdirectory under the work in progress site for the American Music Center. I was busted after the announcement by none other than Daniel Dorff, of Presser. He and his minions had me suspended without pay for 3 days from the American Music Center. I originally wanted to name it NewMusic.net but my friend and ex-boss Randall…
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Added by Jeff Harrington on August 7, 2008 at 12:00pm —
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