Show Titled: "Mirror Mirror"
Commissioned by Cedar Park HS | Cedar Park, Texas
Wind Arrangements by Evan VanDoren
Percussion Arrangements by Andrew Markworth
Sound Design by Aaron Guidry
Program Coordination by Jeremy Spicer

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Mirror Mirror

"The Bridge" & "The End of Dracula", from "Dracula", by Arora & Glass, arr. Evan VanDoren

"Lament for a Frozen Flower", by Sherry Fionnuala & Rolf Løvland, arr. Evan VanDoren

"Allegro for Hydroponic Systems" & "First Movement" from "Dance, by Tin & Davis, arr. E. VanDoren

"When I Was Older", by Eilish,  arr. E. VanDoren

From North Valley Symphony Orchestra's Tchaik 5 Concert - March 8, 2014 - Phoenix, AZ

Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 II. Andante Cantabile - Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky

Carol Of The Bells

In 1974, Robert Morris and Daniel Starr famously enumerated every all-interval twelve-tone row. 

Inspired by their work, and in around 1979 in unpublished works, I generated an analogous catalog of what one might call the all-trichord rows, meaning rows, which together with two of their untransposed rotations, and in "first-species counterpoint," produce a sequence of all twelve distinct trichord classes.  By the standards of the day, this 
involved very substantial computational search.  But lately I have vastly expanded that calculation, now allowing transposition, retrograde and inversion of the rotations. Some of these new rows provide the basis of my recent pieces.   

The catalog of all-trichord rows runs to about 300 more or less, depending upon the accounting for symmetries.  That makes these rows quite rare among all the twelve-tone rows.  This rarity suggests my original compositional conception but unrealized at the time: a museum-like installation where a listener might walk in a large space from sonic exhibit to sonic exhibit, and experience the different ways these rows fit together and do their thing.  

So here are just three typical exhibits, realized now as works for chamber orchestra.  In each, the basic row first gets a plain but lapidary statement, and then the rotated forms fade in, statistically speaking, and eventually the rows likewise fade out in the order in which they entered, leaving finally a statement of the basic row.  By design, this treatment could loop seamlessly as one "display," as per my original conception.

0    4    8   11    2    3    1    6    7    9    5   10

Dvořák: Romantic Pieces, Op. 75, B 150 - 3. Allegro Appassionato

Ensemble Clematis

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/album/id1103853863
Extracts taken from « Legrenzi: Sonate & balletti » – Out on 2016-05-06
Extraits issus de « Legrenzi: Sonate & balletti » – Sortie le 2016-05-06

Production: Ricercar


LEGRENZI: La cetra, Op. 10: Sonata prima a 4 violini

Handel: Water Musick - Telemann: Wassermusik

Ouverture "Wassermusik" in C Major, TWV 55:C3: II. Sarabande. Die schlaffende Thetis

Live recording of Gregory Knight and the Western Piedmont Symphony performing Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16, in P. E. Monroe Auditorium on the campus of Lenoir-Rhyne University on October 5, 2019.  Matthew Troy, conducting.  Encore: Khachaturian's Toccata.

Grieg - Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16: III. Allegro moderato molto e marcato

New England Conservatory students Zenas Hsu, Yina Tong, Livan perform Tchaikovsky's Trio for Piano and Strings in A minor, Op. 50. Recroded live in Jordan Hall, Boston, February 14, 2013

24 Trio for Piano and Strings in A minor  Op  50  Finale e coda  Andante con moto   Lugubre

Rachmaninoff Romanza2

Ingrid Cusido Various Pieces

Brahms: 6 Klavierstücke, Op. 118: No. 2, Intermezzo in A Major. Andante teneramente

Evan VanDoren is an in-demand music composer regularly commissioned to create engaging & award-winning music for marching bands and concert ensembles at all skill levels. Evan’s music is regularly performed around the country, including premiere performances at the Texas Music Educator’s Association Convention and the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic. Currently, Evan serves as brass composer & arranger for the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps, from Santa Clara, California.

Evan is an active clinician, presenting for Drum Corps International, the Music Educators National Convention, the Texas Bandmasters Association, the Texas Music Educators Association, and Music for All. He regularly consults with band programs around the country. Additionally, Evan is an active adjudicator with Bands of America, the University Interscholastic League, and the Texas Music Adjudicators Association.

Before devoting his life to creating music, Evan was a band director at Cedar Park High School, in Cedar Park, Texas, during which time the band was awarded multiple marching state championships and national recognition. He received a Bachelor in Music Education with Honors from Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. Currently, he lives in Cedar Park, Texas, with his wife, Katie, daughter Anna, and their dog, Cooper.

"Lament for a Frozen Flower", by Sherry Fionnuala & Rolf Løvland, arr. Evan VanDoren

Evan VanDoren Music

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