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String Quartet (2002)

Inspiration for writing,   music by Jack Parton

Jack's songs

Dirk Caber's "Edification and Amusement," a rag for four hands that he wrote when he was 17. Note that this has never been properly recorded; the version here was recorded from a MIDI file of the original sheet music.

—Jesse Jackman

Find Dirk Caber at http://facebook.com/dirkcaber, http://twitter.com/dirkcaber, or on his NSFW blog at http://dirkcaber.com.

Dirk Caber - Edification and Amusement

Dirk Caber's "Piano Miniature No. 1," the first in a series of 24 piano miniatures, none longer than about 3 minutes. Twelve of the miniatures have already been recorded; we are hoping to eventually raise sufficient funds to record the remaining 12 and release them all as an album.

—Jesse Jackman

Find Dirk Caber at http://facebook.com/dirkcaber, http://twitter.com/dirkcaber, or on his NSFW blog at http://dirkcaber.com.

Dirk Caber - Piano Miniature No. 1 in C major

Dirk Caber's "Piano Miniature No. 6," the sixth in a series of 24 piano miniatures, none longer than about 3 minutes. Twelve of the miniatures have already been recorded; we are hoping to eventually raise sufficient funds to record the remaining 12 and release them all as an album.

—Jesse Jackman

Find Dirk Caber at http://facebook.com/dirkcaber, http://twitter.com/dirkcaber, or on his NSFW blog at http://dirkcaber.com.

Dirk Caber - Piano Miniature No. 6: Vigoureux

The Eclogues were experiments in orchestration for me, each using a particular variation on a chamber orchestra of not more than 24 or 25 players. Each was also based loosely on a literary source, usually a poem. Eclogue No. 6 draws on a work by the 16th century English poet and composer Thomas Whythorne:

"As thy shadow itself apply’th
To follow thee whereso thou go,
And when thou bends, itself it wry’th,
Turning as thou both to and fro:
The flatterer doth even so,
And shopes himself the same to gloze,
With many a fawning and gay show,
Whom he would frame for his purpose."

Whythorne’s poem talks about imitation which, despite often being a wan copy, is still the sincerest form of flattery. Musically, that suggests to me an original theme that spawns a myriad of subsequent variations. Eclogue No. 6 is an attempt to set this concept in a musical form that mimics a style of dance that was common in Whythorne’s time.

—Dirk Caber

Find Dirk Caber at http://facebook.com/dirkcaber, http://twitter.com/dirkcaber, or on his NSFW blog at http://dirkcaber.com.

Dirk Caber - Eclogue No. 6

Some options as to movement order:
1, 2, 3, 4 obviously...
3, 2, 4 possibly.
3, 2 succinctly
and maybe 4 as a stand-alone work?

Sonata For Flute And Piano 3. Lento

Sonata For Flute And Piano 1. Recitative

String Quartet 4. Allegro

String Quartet 3. Andante

String Quartet 2. Presto

String Quartet 1. Andante

By Dirk Caber for Jesse Jackman, Christmas 2013. Lyrics by John Donne (1572-1631). For more information, visit http://jessejackman.xxx/2014/08/26/classical-caber-the-good-morrow

Dirk Caber - The Good Morrow

When I lived in New York several years ago, I shared a modest one-bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side with a roommate, a dog, and a very large Steinway grand piano. Early one morning (at 5 am, I think; good thing the apartment was soundproofed!) I sat down at that piano to record this nocturne, which I gave to my mother on her birthday.
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Nocturne

From the set of twelve Bagatelles for piano.

Bagatelle II

Bagatelle I

Maine-raised, Boston and Baltimore (Peabody) educated, New York City honed, Chicago softened, and now back in New England.  Besides composing, I play piano and tuba (and tuba variants), and sing bass and countertenor.

String Quartet 2. Presto

Jack Parton, composer