It would be hard for anybody not to dance to this piece. Job Done :-)

wow!!! nice vision from the gypsy melody, very lively and fresh. Nice Job Bruce

Bruce Klepper, gypsy jazz on an accordion and a glass of inexpensive Pinot Grigio ... can life get any better? Maybe. But, who's to say?

Love the instrumentation and eastern European sound.

Love, how the instrumentation and composition highlights the vincinity between Gypsy music and Tango. Masterful!

defies excellence/super great/truly/ fantastic trip

Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) premiers two contemporary ballets June 3-4. “In A Dialogue with Gravity” explores the parallel between modern architecture, movement and the need to push and defy gravity. “Matisse’s Gardens” brings to life the bold color and forms that Henri Matisse first explored in his collages and drawings.

In a Dialogue with Gravity and Matisse's Gardens - Music for Ballet

Played with parlor -style steel string acoustic guitar.
Tone captured with matched pair small diaphragm condenser microphones.
Recorded in an one take and only little bit of equalisation and reverberation has been added.

Dschingis Khan (Comp. Ralph Siegel)

(Written by Terry Reeves)
Terry Reeves:  Lead Vocals / Guitar
Hans Albers:  All additional instruments, Arrangement and Production

When Brian first played me “If The Stars Are The Dreams Of Spacemen“, I was absolutely stunned by its brilliance.  Of course, having grown up with his songwriting, I was already a huge fan of everything he wrote but did think there was something extra special about the song.  Knowing him as a brother, I saw just how revealing it was about his often uneasy relationship with the world and his place in the scheme of things.  The closing line, “Who am I?” said it all for me.  It was a song to which I often returned, particularly after he was gone.

Eventually, I arrived at the idea of writing something that in some way linked to his original composition but told the story from my own perspective.  Not wanting to ride on his coat tails in any way, I felt very uneasy about doing this, so decided it was something I would do purely for myself.  It took many long months to come up with something I thought would be a worthy companion piece but the more I wrote, the more the idea took on a strength and shape of it’s own until I had fashioned it exactly as I wanted it to be.

It took quite some time to summon up the courage to play it to Gary, thinking if he thought it was any good, I might take it further.  When he said that he thought that it was one of the best songs I’d ever written (something I really didn’t expect) and that I should send it to Hans, it had an overwhelmingly emotional effect on me, particularly since I was very doubtful about playing it to anyone else at all.

Hans always has a way of emotionally inhabiting the songs I write and the arrangement he produced was exactly what I felt the song needed.  There’s no doubt in my mind that if he and Bri had ever played together, they’d have created musical dreams that would spread throughout the universe.

Today, the 22 August 2021, marks the ninth anniversary of Bri’s death and I can only hope that this song does him justice.  We miss him more than ever.  (Terry Reeves)

*Manu (https://soundcloud.com/man-on-a-grill) put together a wonderful version of Bri’s original song a few years back.  If you’d like to hear it, you can do so here:
https://soundcloud.com/man-on-a-grill/rocky-mountain-wmoag-the-inconsistent-jukebox-if-stars-are-the-dreams-of-spacemen  


How can I write a song about the stellar writer?
Breathing music in space, helping bands to be tighter
A Bishop’s marriage of schemes inside your wigwam 
As the cluster of stars reflects only you as it can 

CHORUS 
If the stars are the Dreams of spacemen
Floating around by imagination 
Adjusting scope to seat the nightmares 
A magnetic field of dreams 
With musical chairs

A spaceman in search of the perfect mate
Floating through Galaxies more dreams of love can’t wait
Loving tears never seen behind a facial shield 
As the Milky Way melts revealing what Kepler’s laws might yield 

CHORUS 

I could never write the songs of stars
With your heart so full of love from here to Mars
The spaceship framed inside a past that lingers
Touching gravity with your skill of voice and fingers

CHORUS 

Isolations ending showing fusions of greatness 
Will never explain your skill of silence and lateness 
Knowing love as you do 
Making love a sad fool
I will never fully know who you are

CHORUS

STARS THAT LINGER (FOR BRI): CRIPPLE CLUB & HANS ALBERS

Come Una Guerra Dentro

Jacarandas are blooming. The storm bird has arrived. Must be coming into summer...

Jacaranda Time

Counting the days lol The B side of Iron Gate  if there is such a thing any more Cheers G

64 And Counting

'In For A Penny' is a Jazz track, medium tempo.

Talking To Myself Again

In For A Penny

In a Dialogue with Gravity and Matisse's Gardens - Minor Swing
Listen in the Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/in-a-dialogue-with-gravity-and
Based on Minor Swing the 1937 piece by Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli
Duration: 2:10
Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) premiers two contemporary ballets June 3-4. Inspired by the relationships architects and dancers share with gravity, “In A Dialogue with Gravity” explores the connection between architecture, dance, and its people. In the second act, “Matisse’s Gardens,” the forms, colors, and space of Matisse’s famed cutouts forms the foundation for this contemporary ballet.
Cover design by Maire-Jose Payannet
For strings, piano, accordion and percussion

In a Dialogue with Gravity and Matisse's Gardens - Minor Swing

In a Dialogue with Gravity and Matisse's Gardens – Dark Eyes
Listen in the Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/in-a-dialogue-with-gravity-and
Based on a Gypsy melody which became very successful in Europe in the 1920's and 1930's.
Duration: 2:15
Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) premiers two contemporary ballets June 3-4. Inspired by the relationships architects and dancers share with gravity, “In A Dialogue with Gravity” explores the connection between architecture, dance, and its people. In the second act, “Matisse’s Gardens,” the forms, colors, and space of Matisse’s famed cutouts forms the foundation for this contemporary ballet.
Cover design by Maire-Jose Payannet
For strings, accordion, saxes. piano, basson and percussion

In a Dialogue with Gravity and Matisse's Gardens – Dark Eyes

Lyrics:-
Once upon a time 
There was a grand magician
He would put on shows
To make the people gasp
In disbelief
All the Kings and Queens
Would ask him to their castles
They showered him with riches
And his popularity increased

Beware the Fairytale
Fairytale 
Be mindful of the trickery, the swindle
It's a smoke and mirrors plan
Beware the Fairytale
Fairytale
In pulling back the curtain
No surprise
There is an ordinary man

Now we have 
Celebrities and Politicians
Putting on an act
To entertain the folk
And keep them none the wise
All the kings and queens
Still ask them to their castles
Still shower them with riches
So they toe the party
Toe the party line

Beware the Fairytale
Fairytale 
Be mindful of the trickery, the swindle
It's a smoke and mirrors plan
Beware the Fairytale
Fairytale
In pulling back the curtain
No surprise
There is an ordinary man

2022 winkandwoo

Fairytale

In a Dialogue with Gravity and Matisse's Gardens – Boléro  
Listen in the Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/in-a-dialogue-with-gravity-and
Based on Marice Ravel’s "Boléro" 
Duration: 3:15 
Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) premiers two contemporary ballets June 3-4.  “In A Dialogue with Gravity” explores the parallel between modern architecture, movement and the need to push and defy gravity.  “Matisse’s Gardens” brings to life the bold color and forms that Henri Matisse first explored in his collages and drawings.
Matisse first visited Morocco in the winter of 1912.  Matisse found Morocco so different and exotic that he ended up making numerous sketches, drawings, and paintings of it, or more precisely, of what he saw in it.  Matisse was quite struck by the people’s physiognomy and colorful garments, the architecture, the daily outdoor scenes, and routines… and it shows in most of his works from this period (1912-1913).  This music for the ballet, using ethnic instruments and percussion, reflects on this time of Matisse's life in Morocco.
Cover design by Maire-Jose Payannet 
For strings, ethnic instruments. harp, marimba, timpani and percussion

In a Dialogue with Gravity and Matisse's Gardens – Boléro

Earth Reborn

In a Dialogue with Gravity and Matisse's Gardens – Valse Pour Matisse
Listen in the Playlist: soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/in-a-dialogue-with-gravity-and
Duration: 2:15
Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) premiers two contemporary ballets June 3-4. Inspired by the relationships architects and dancers share with gravity, “In A Dialogue with Gravity” explores the connection between architecture, dance, and its people. In the second act, “Matisse’s Gardens,” the forms, colors, and space of Matisse’s famed cutouts forms the foundation for this contemporary ballet.
Cover design by Maire-Jose Payannet
For strings, accordion, clarinet, celeste, harp, virtual instrument and percussion

In a Dialogue with Gravity and Matisse's Gardens – Valse Pour Matisse

GMKS Códice

C.1792- Kościuszko was a hero of an insurrection unsuccessfully attempting to prevent the division of Poland between Russia, Prussia and Austria in 1794

Polonez Kosciuszko

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Bruce Klepper is a Colorado based composer with thousands of listeners worldwide. Klepper studied music composition in the 1970's and received a degree in music composition and theory.  After writing music for many years and starting a tech company based in Colorado, Klepper retired in 2014 from business so he could devote myself to his true passion, composing music. Klepper's music premiered in Carnegie Hall, September 2022.  Klepper writes music in a number of different styles, including contemporary classical music, jazz, soundscapes using field recordings, ambient music, and ballet music.  Klepper has been composing music for Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) since 2016. Klepper has been collaborating with Parlando School of Musical Arts (www.parlando.org) faculty Britta De Groot and Sergei Govorov for over a year now, composing and arranging new music for the dynamic piano and saxophone duo to premier around the United States. Klepper's music can be heard on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and SoundCloud. 

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In a Dialogue with Gravity and Matisse's Gardens – Dark Eyes

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