This is a little improvisation dedicated to my son, who loves Parry Gripp & BooneBum's "Raining Tacos" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npjF0...

Anjel

This is a composition I wrote for my brother's wedding in July 2011. 

Crystal Joy - Barish Golland - 2011

This is music I made with inspiration from the UBC Botanical Gardens blossoming trees and the soundscape of the birds in that garden, on April 20, 2012

The Sanctuary - Barish Golland

This is music to accompany a reading of 1st Corinthians 13 (NIV)

1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 
2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 
3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 
6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 
7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 
10 but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 
11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 
12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

On Vimeo: 
http://vimeo.com/36813660

Love, The Most Excellent Way - Barish Golland

This is a modal piano improvisation piece with ocean sounds from Acadia Beach in Vancouver, British Columbia. The piece is based on this passage from Romans 15:13 - 
"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit."

On Vimeo: 
http://vimeo.com/35121641

Filled with Peace - Barish Golland

In memory of my wife's mother Lourdes Milagros Gonzalez, 1937-2012, played at her memorial service in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on November 25th, 2012

In Memoriam - Lourdes Milagros Gonzalez Arias

I wrote this for an Espace Musique concert at the National Art Gallery in Ottawa, Canada.  It was Rob Rival on violin, Sarah Namer on second violin, can't remember the violist, and myself on cello. 

Piece for Quartet - Barish Golland - 1994

This was performed at Ottawa University at the Faculty of Music auditorium. It was the Ottawa U jazz band that I was playing piano in, spring of 1996. Don't ask me why I called it "Shortwave Hegemony" - let's just say I was listening to a lot of shortwave radio at the time - Radio Havana Cuba was my favourite. 

Shortwave Hegemony - Barish Golland - 1996

This is a chamber ensemble piece for 14 instruments. It is programmatic in that there are cinematic 'scenes' to the story that unfolds. It is heavily influenced by Wim Wender's "Wings of Desire", Ligeti's Violin Concerto, Henry Cowell's Quartet Romantic and Keith Jarrett's Changes. The title comes from 1. Corinthians 13:12 (KJV): 

"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." 

  The composer was unaware of the 1961 film by the same name directed by Ingmar Bergman at the time this composition was written, and bears no resemblance to that work. 

This piece is listed in the Gaudeamus Foundation Contemporary Music Center.