Music for piano and string quartet.

Strings: leos-strings.com brookspearemusic.com

Artwork by Katja Lang: https://www.katja-lang.com


Follow:

Links: hoo.be/stevengutheinz

Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/2pHCm7cvE0ADlPp68tScqW

Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/artist/steven-…theinz/1421925543

SoundCloud: @steven-gutheinz

Instagram: www.instagram.com/stevengutheinz

Facebook: www.facebook.com/stevengutheinzmusic/

YouTube: www.youtube.com/@stevengutheinz

Bandcamp: stevengutheinz.bandcamp.com

Musicbed: www.musicbed.com/artists/steven-gutheinz/4360

Web: www.stevengutheinz.com

The Near Side

Above the Lens

Holly Roadfeldt - Piano

Hommage a Mandy Morris (1980-2002) – Amanda Akers Morris was, put quite simply, my first love. I met her when I was an undergraduate at the University of Texas, and I was fascinated by her from the start. She was a very talented singer, but also an artist and poet. She possessed an insatiable curiosity and felt things deeply. Tragically, in 2002 while auditioning in NY for graduate school, she was struck by a vehicle and lost her life. To say that all of this changed me fundamentally as a person would be an understatement. I was confronted by true loss and true grief for the first time in my life, and it would be years before I really fully recovered from it – well, as “fully” as is possible. 

At Mandy’s funeral, her mother gave me a CD labeled “For our Tony.” It was a series of recordings that Mandy had made of songs that she had written - just her in a practice room playing piano and singing. Some were complete songs, but others were just fragments of ideas. It was one of these unfinished fragments that I latched onto to build this Hommage.


Hommage à Mandy Morris - Official Album Version

8Dio Hybrid Emotions - "Phantom Shadows" by Vess Ray

Holly Roadfeldt - Piano

Hommage a John Dowland (1563-1626) – While I was a Doctoral student at Indiana University, I got to fulfill one of my dreams—to study the Renaissance lute with master lutenist Nigel North.  The music of John Dowland has always resonated strongly with me, and I have performed many of his works over the years, on classical guitar, lute, and even electric guitar.  This Hommage uses his song In Darkness Let Me Dwell as a kind of backdrop, or skeleton.  My own interpretations of his music, as well as many veiled quotations from his other works are woven into the fabric of this piece.

Hommage à John Dowland - Official Album Version

Allemande from Cello Suite 1 by JS Bach

Classical Guitar performer and instructor.

Allemande from Cello Suite 1 by JS Bach

Brian Ivan Guitar

Related tracks