Beautiful piece! I adore how you "struggle" in this track to play less than listener expects at times.

My first attempt at a jazz/lounge track from 2009.

A little drive through old Hollywood and on to Nevada.....

Marion Crane

If Wishes Were Kings (Time Capsule Theme)

Composer Arthur Breur writes about this piece:

"This piece was one of the first pieces I composed after college, and is highly influenced by Danny Elfman. This piece was composed for my friend Steve McQuiston."
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Piano: Carlos Márquez (@cmdigital)
Composer: Arthur Breur (@arthurbreur)
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Recording ℗2014 Carlos Márquez
Love Too Soon, Love Too Late ©1990 Arthur Breur
Sheet Music (free/buy): www.ArthurBreur.com/sheet-music

Background image by Frank Black Noir www.flickr.com/photos/frankblacknoir/7728870164

Arthur Breur - Love Too Soon, Love Too Late - Carlos Márquez, Piano

Putting this under 'World' because let's be honest, this isn't pure classical, this isn't pure world, but kinda does blend the two somehow.

This is a song whose tune I'd had in my mind, at least in part, for a good number of years, but never made anything special with it. Finally when I was asked to work with Ley Lines, I figured that this tune would have its time to shine, and built up on it. I worked this theme through two, maybe three weeks, and got sick halfway. But the end result is something I truly enjoy, and I'm glad to share it with all of you.

Vocals and tambourine (which doubles as a frame drum) were both recorded; the rest were sequenced. Everything by yours truly.

You will have heard an instrumental version on the Steam Greenlight page for Ley Lines:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=699239479

While you're listening to this, go give the game a look-see, will you?

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LYRICS:

Endless ages passed us by
as we left this land to die.
Softly weeping, still believing,
she carried us to new birth.

Now behold this wondrous light!
Now behold its radiance bright,
softly spreading its warmth and its rays
to every end of the earth.

In this silence, still we stand
to await thy true command.
Let warring cease, let flesh retire,
let our will bend to your word.

Heart of power, brought to life
in the heat of our strife,
sing your song, so long forgotten,
sing your song, so long unheard.

O, by thine outstretched arm,
save those who would do no harm
and still the ways of those who strive
to hurt the earth once more.

Till we reach the end of time,
blossomed over with love and light,
sing your song, so long forgotten,
and bless the earth once more.

Light, shine down, spread your rays far and wide!
Light, descend as streams on dry earth!

Light, shine down, spread your rays far and wide,
and banish the darkness away.
Light, descend as streams on dry earth,
and brighten the path again!

Light, Shine Down

For North Cascades National Park. Weaves my interpretation of the park with the residents' favorite folk tune "Will the Circle be Unbroken" written by Charles Gabriel in 1907

Recorded by Juventas New Music Ensemble 2023; Album: Voices of the Land

CSR MP3

The Way Through

Violin Concerto

SCIENCE!

Ignition (for low brass quartet)
Premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra Low Brass Section
For the 2020 Tanglewood Online Festival

Toby Oft, alto trombone
Steven Lange, tenor trombone
James Markey, bass trombone
Mike Roylance, tuba

Sheet music available at Murphy Music Press
(*tenor trombone 1 part available, if no alto trombone)
http://murphymusicpress.com/products/b-138

www.kevindaymusic.com

Ignition - Boston Symphony Orchestra Low Brass

Commissioned by Kearney High School, Kearney, NE. Nathan LeFeber, Conductor.

Sandhill Fanfare

Aurora

Composing since the late 1970s! Quirky movie-score style pieces and songs.

Bio:

Arthur Breur started seriously studying piano after his grandmother, Jocelyn— his grandfather’s second wife—passed away when he was eight.  They had been very close, and his weekend stays at her home inevitably included him asking her to play piano for him.  

At ten he started taking lessons, having already taught himself a variety of music, including various movie score themes and ragtime pieces—but he gradually discovered that he enjoyed composing and playing his own music more than playing what was assigned to him by his piano teacher.

From the start, his compositions were very affected by the music in movies and on television.  It is not in jest that he points to the music performed on such television shows as “Sesame Street”, “The Electric Company”, and “The Muppet Show”—not to mention the superb songs of “School House Rock”—as sources of inspiration.  Further, many excellent scores for movies of that time, such as Escape to Witch Mountain, Close Encounters, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Trek, and others, fascinated him and formed his ideas on how music should “work”—with accessible, easily remembered themes that can be associated with specific things, people, or feelings.  His music was also heavily influenced an excellent music program at church.

He studied piano performance and composition and got his bachelor’s degree from Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois. By that time he had been studying piano for eight years, had composed more than a dozen pieces, and had previously lied about his age to get into a college-level music theory course.  His college piano instructor worked with his desire to compose by assigning him works by composers that inspired him.  Prokofiev and Ravel in particular influenced his compositional tone and style considerably.  Around this time, Danny Elfman’s film music also came to Arthur’s attention and provided yet another dimension of sound to pursue.

In the early 1990s, Arthur collaborated with lyricist, comedian, and singer, Cristopher Blake.  Between them they wrote more than twenty songs, many of which they performed live in various Los Angeles venues.

Over the more than 36 years he has been composing, he has written more than 140 individual pieces, including works for five weddings, two Christmas revues, numerous videos, and one short film.

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