excerpts, with Take Root Dance
(2021)
5/8/21 OU Outside the Box Festival

SixWord Stories (excerpt)

with Take Root Dance
Jon Anderson, vocals
DSO The Cube, Detroit MI 
(2019)

InDreams (excerpt)

Take Root Dance
Fall Concert @ Boll Theatre YMCA Concert
Sept 21, 2024

Firsts Of The Lasts

Steady

This work embraces two incarnations of Juliet. The first is depicted in Joseph Wright of Derby's 1790 painting "Romeo and Juliet: the Tomb Scene." The painting shows Juliet, kneeling beside Romeo's body, who upon hearing a footstep, draws a dagger to end her life ("Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!"). The second is astronomic, specifically one of the inner moons of planet Uranus (each moon has been assigned names of Shakespearean characters). Juliet, first discovered by Voyager 2 in 1986, was initially designated S/1986U2. The unstable orbital paths of Uranus' inner moons set up the demise of Juliet, which scientists predict will collide with neighboring moon Desdemona in the distant future.
Kypros Markou, conductor
Dearborn Symphony Orchestra

Juliet [S/1986U2]

everything Left of shattered (rupture)

melodic material for a new work for tenor sax and max

pause

february 2017
This piece takes J. S. Bach's Prelude in C major and remaps all of the notes in chromatic inversion, mirroring all of the interval content of the original. Sounds more like the opening credit sequence to some future series? #bachupsidedown

Bach Upside Down (Prelude in C - Negative Harmony)

Elizabeth Munn, soprano
Text, Nikki Giovanni

Five Songpoems - 1) I am She

Five SongPoems - 4) Skydiving

Dash - for wind symphony

Juliet - for orchestra

Between Sleep (Mvmt2)

a deconstruction of J.S. Bach's chorale setting of Aus meines Herzens Grunde, BWV 269�

Between Sleep (Mvmt1)

Jon Anderson composes for a variety of acoustic and electroacoustic mediums. He is Associate Professor of Music Composition at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI.

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