The Lectures of Joseph Campbell

Bhagavad Gita : Chapter 3 : " Karmayoga or the Yoga of Action" : Overview : Guru Haridasji

Joel Puckett's new work for winds, A Proper Goodbye in the premiere performance by Gerard Morris and the Puget Sound Wind Ensemble.

LIVE PERFORMANCE

Score can be found here: https://issuu.com/joelpuckettmusic/docs/puckett_a_proper_goodbye_v.1.2_4.15.2022

A Proper Goodbye Premiere (Live)

LIVE, March 4, 2023, Timothy J. Robblee, conductor
Armstrong Concert Hall, Winchester VA
Scenario by Gary Winter
https://jonathannewman.com/music/piilani-and-koolau

Pi‘ilani and Ko‘olau, an imagined ballet [Shenandoah Conservatory Wind Ensemble]

for wind ensemble

performed by the Texas Tech University Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Sarah McKoin, conductor.

Deciduous (live)

A synthetic sound world of neon nostalgia that evolves into an optimistic synth anthem of bliss.

This is a reading session that Glen Adsit and the Hartt School generously did for me. Real performance(s) will be uploaded at some point in the future.

Synthetic Sunlight (Hartt School READING SESSION)

Live premiere of 15th Night of the Moon, a trumpet concerto by Joel Puckett. Craig Morris, trumpet; Gary Green, conductor; The Frost School of Music Wind Ensemble. Miami, Florida (USA) November 19th, 2014.

Program Note:
15th Night of the Moon:
In the past year, I’ve seen the reality of time begin close in on some of the people I hold most dear and as a result I’ve be forced to confront the cyclical nature of life. Joseph Campbell describes an appropriate Bronze Age concept in his lecture, “The Way of Art”:

“Out on the plains on the fifteenth night of the moon, at the time of sunset, looking to the west, you see the sun at a moment just resting right on the horizon. And if you look there to the east, the moon will be in the same position on the eastern horizon … And so this also is part of the mythology of the body: the body going through its inevitable course – the long body [from birth to death].” 

In this moment approximately halfway through one’s life, the body and mind are in balance; equal in their prowess. In the Bronze Age myths, this was considered to be around one’s 35th year. Typically in these myths, the protagonist goes through a transformational journey moving from one phase of life to another. They are reborn into, for lack of a better word, adulthood.

In his book, "The Way of the Animal Powers," Campbell describes a different transformational journey, this one as told by a !KUNG bushman:

"When people sing ... I enter the earth. I go in at a place like a place where people drink water. I travel a long way, very far. When I emerge, I am already climbing. I'm climbing threads, the threads that lie over there in the south. I climb one and leave it, then I climb another one. Then I leave it and climb another. . . . And when you arrive at God's place, you make yourself small. You have become small. You come in small to God's place. You do what you have to do there. Then you return to where everyone is, and you hide your face. You hide your face so you won't see anything. You come and come and come and finally you enter your body again. All the people who have stayed behind are waiting for you. … You enter, enter the earth, and you return to enter the skin of your body ... Then you begin to sing."


These two excepts strike me as related in that the mystical journey of the bushman seems to be a transformational experience much like the one described in the fifteenth night of the moon stories. An experience of change that provokes a profound realization of both the sadness and hope that come with the realization of a circular life.

In this concerto, cast into four connected movements, our soloist journeys deep within to find this transformation. Each movement is a projection of a line of text from the bushman’s description of his experience.

1. “When people sing … I enter the earth.”

2. “When you arrive at god’s place
You make yourself small.
You come in small to god’s place.
You do what you have to do there.”

3. “Then you return to where everyone is.” [cadenza]

4. “You enter the earth and you return to enter the skin of your body."

The movements are played without pause.

Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Puckett: 15th Night Of The Moon (Craig Morris, trumpet)

12 days of Christmas, arranged by Bob, played by Nadia!

Nadia Sirota - The 12 Days Of Christmas - by Robert Sirota

Out now: https://pro.beatport.com/release/the-light-remixed/1724089

Sabretooth and Datacult deliver two impeccable remixes from our latest BMSS album by The Key. Sabretooths remix is like rocket fuel, accelerating the original tune and speeding it up to a Psytrance Goa monster. Datacults signature Technodelic take on Progressive Trance pulls the groove deeper, delivering the sound he is known for. Created with powerful emotions and an innovative vision, Ovnimoon and Ascent come together with brilliant technical precision now remixed by two members of the BMSS family.

Artist: The Key (Ovnimoon & Ascent)
Title: The Light Remixed EP
Label: BMSS Records
Cat no.: BMSSDigi070
Format: Digital Download
Release Date: 21 March 2016
Mastering: XSI Masterings

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01: The Key - The Voice of the Universe (Sabretooth Remix)
02: The Key - Tridimensional Abstractions (Datacult Remix) 

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The Key (Ovnimoon & Ascent) - The Voice of the Universe (Sabretooth Remix)

Tau Beta Sigma/Kappa Kappa Psi NIB World Premiere, July 2017.

4) The Low Arc Of The Sun

Play To Win From THE FIX Outlaw And Dennis

[@ 3 min] Team OBS goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Joel Puckett, composer of Minnesota Opera’s production of “The Fix” (with a libretto by Eric Simonson) about the fraudulent 1919 Chicago White Sox team. A guest who can shoot the breeze about sports…?!

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[@ 46 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’, women take the reins of New Orleans Opera and Charlottesville Opera, while the Metropolitan Opera stops giving away free online content…

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Getting Our Fix with Joel Puckett!

The famous intro to Rhapsody in Blue done on PICCOLO TRUMPET!

This recording is a world premiere for piano and jazz band arranged by Allan Gilliland and Matt Catingub.  Featuring Jon Kimura Parker (piano) and Jens Lindemann (piccolo trumpet) along with the Canadian All-Star JazzPops Orchestra.  Watch for the full release on November 19, 2020

Rhapsody In Blue Big Band INTRO

Joel Puckett is a composer leaving both audiences and the press buzzing. His music has been described as, “soaringly lyrical” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), “Puccini-esque” (Wall Street Journal), and “containing a density within a clarity, polyphony within the simple and – most importantly – beautiful and seemingly spiritual.” (Audiophile Audition). Parterre Box recently proclaimed, “Puckett should be a household name” and the Philadelphia Inquirer’s David Patrick Stearns mused, “if the name Joel Puckett isn’t etched into your brain, it should be.” In 2011 NPR Music listed him as one of the top 100 composers under 40 in the world.

Hailed as “visionary” (Washington Post) and “an astonishingly original voice” (Philadelphia Inquirer), his music is performed by the leading artists of our day and is consistently recognized by organizations such as the American Composers Forum, BMI, Chorus America, National Public Radio, and the American Bandmasters Association.

Puckett’s music attracts diverse performers and listeners through its emotional energy and commitment. Melding tradition with innovation, his distinctive style grows from his power to create transcendent experiences using charismatic musical language.

The Fix, a grand opera commissioned by Minnesota Opera, premiered in the March 2019 to packed houses, enthusiastic audiences, and largely effusve praise. With a libretto by Academy Award and Tony Award winner, Eric Simonson, the work depicts the rise and fall of the 1919 Chicago White Sox. It is a tragedy ripe with power, romance and redemption, set against the backdrop of America’s favorite pastime. Puckett’s earlier commissions have been premiered and performed worldwide, to exuberant critical acclaim.

His flute concerto, The Shadow of Sirius, premiered in 2010 and has received more than 200 performances and been recorded multiple times, including 2015’s Naxos Surround Sound disc, “Shadow of Sirius,” which received a 2016 Grammy Nomination. Currently the Chair of Music Theory, Ear Training, and Piano Skills at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Puckett presents workshops nationwide and frequently serves as an adjudicator at competitions for rising composers. His music is represented worldwide by Bill Holab Music.

Puckett: 15th Night Of The Moon (Craig Morris, trumpet)

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