Theme
Variation i. Andante
Variation ii. Allegro
Variation iii. Andante
Variation iv. Allegro

Emily Theobald, flute; Elena Sloman, oboe; Stefani Feldman, clarinet; Matthew Otto, horn; Jordan Bidwell, bassoon


Theme And Variations For Wind Quintet

"Spinning Yarns" by Ryan Lindveit
"The President's Own" United States Marine Band 
Joe Higgins, conductor
John Philip Sousa Band Hall Marine Barracks Annex
6/16/15 | Washington, DC

*The performance was part of the 2015 National Band Association Young Composer/Conductor Mentor Project.

Program Notes:
I am fascinated by multi-layered storytelling, and Spinning Yarns is a result of that fascination. Margaret Atwood's novel The Blind Assassin was a particularly rich source of inspiration. In this novel, each chapter is part of a different sub-novel. A crime novel is right next to a memoir which is right next to a science fiction story which is right next to a romance novel. The interaction between each of these layers creates a large and hugely dramatic narrative. 

Spinning Yarns is a collection of diverse narrative threads stitched together into a dramatic musical tapestry. Like an Atwoodian multi-layered novel, the music oscillates between dreamlike uncertainty, chaotic heroism, sarcastic dancing, pensive sleepwalking, airy lyricism, and climactic hubris. As the drama unfolds, these disparate elements emerge, re-emerge, and inform and interact with each other. 

Spinning Yarns (2014-15) - "The President's Own" United States Marine Band

Like an Altar with 9,000 Robot Attendants
for orchestra

Performed by the USC Thornton Symphony & Don Crockett
October 16, 2015
Bovard Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA

“And inside, the house was like an altar with nine thousand robot attendants, big and small, servicing, attending, singing in choirs, even though the gods had gone away and the ritual was meaningless.”
-Ray Bradbury, “There Will Come Soft Rains” (1950)

Like an Altar with 9,000 Robot Attendants (2015) - USC Thornton Symphony

- for mezzo soprano, string octet & piano

feat. Gloria Palermo

endless thanks to all the performers! ~ Joanna Duncan, Carson Marshall, Giancarlo Latta, Teddy Schenkman, Austin Simmons, Francesca McNeeley, Matthew Gustafson, August Ramos, Yurie Farnsworth

Text:

Actaeon

when we meet
take my hands in yours
and fold my fingers into bone.
I know you,
and now my jaw grows long,
and my bones soft
like clay

do as you will
and I will carry the wreath
you place upon my head
into the woods
invisible, my skin changed
to hide, coarse
and brown,
the color of the trees.

Actaeon

This is part of the second movement of my composition Why So Serious

Why_So_Serious_II_German_Exam_Exerpt_1

from "North Pond - A Musical"

LYRICS:
Joshua, I like you
I want to understand
We just might be alike too
I'll try to lend a hand

Hear me out,
just for a while
I'll tell them the truth
Before your trial

Joshua...
They don't understand you,
And I can't say I do
But I refuse to strand you
Without a proper view

Of your side of the story
You need a fighting chance
You're not an allegory
You have an expanse-
ive world inside,
I've seen it.

Joshua, I mean it...
Let's wipe the slate and clean it.
There's only you and me
They will not set you free
If only you could see.

Joshua, I like you
I want to be your friend
Let's talk it out, before the end
If we can
If we can...

CREDITS:
Chelsea Helm - Chelsea Marlowe
Likai He - Violin
Fanny Spangaro - Cello
Thomas Frey - Clarinet
Sohee Kwon - Piano
Nils Aardahl - Bass
Brady Spitz - Drums

Ben Morris - Composer/engineer
Will Inman - Lyrics for "Joshua, I Like You"
John Albert Harris - video, production, and copying

Joshua, I Like You

Addy Sterrett /voice 
Liz Faure /electric guitar 
Bora Kim /violin
Alishan Gezgin /piano
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made of dawn, made of evening, made of soft rain, made of sky, made of crushed leaves, made of honey, made of falling flowers, made of salt water 

all there is is finding you, watching you breathe, knowing you move
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recorded february 8 2018 @ sprague recital hall, yale university

in shrine

Performed by the Norwegian Academy of Music Mastodont Big Band, for the Serendip Festival, February 15th, 2018. Solos by and Richard Köster (flugelhorn) and Camilla Hole (sopranino sax).

Edvard

In Norse mythology, Ymir is the primordial giant whose body makes the universe.  From his flesh comes the earth, from his blood comes the ocean, from his hair the trees, from his brains the clouds, from his skull the heavens, and from his bones come the mountains.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0PBTbUnsu4

Ymir's Bones

The sea is near me.
Composer:Tristan Xavier Köster
Performer: Jorge Paz Verastegui
Recorded by Ramona Beyer
Guitar: Marius Redeker

The sea is near me- Tristan Xavier Köster

Rowboat

Clare Glackin is a composer of instrumental and vocal concert works whose music has been performed by the Culver City Symphony, USC Symphony, Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra, and others. She seeks to craft music that is engaging, unique, and fulfilling for both performers and audiences. 

Also an oboist, Clare has played in various premieres of student compositions, including performances at USC, Brevard Music Festival, and the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium. She has been a member of the USC Concert Orchestra (receiving the USC Concert Orchestra Award in 2015), and Rice Campanile. 

Clare is currently based in Houston, TX, where she is studying for her MM at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. She graduated with a BM from USC’s Thornton School of Music, where she was named a Discovery Scholar and Outstanding Graduate of the composition program. Clare’s primary teachers have been Stephen Hartke, Frank Ticheli, Pierre Jalbert and Richard Lavenda.