I adore this piece. So glad to know there are others who see that diatonic material still has so much potential. I first saw/heard it on Incipitsify's YouTube channel a few months ago and it keeps nagging in the back of my brain.

Oh that's a cool start––wasn't expecting that! Great work man! Mind if I ask how you wrote this? (aspiring composer, haha)

A-Y-O: Katahj Copley

Factory Seconds Brass Trio, Baldwin Wallace Conservatory Faculty & Cleveland Orchestra members Jack Sutte, Jesse McCormick, and Rick Stout.

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Recorded with Detta Danford (alto flute) at St.Mary's Church, Walthamstow in February 2016.

delete/control/option, Marcos Balter

Synchronicity in Purple Minor was commissioned by The Blanton Art Museum at the University of Texas at Austin and was premiered on September 11, 2011 at Memorial Drive UMC in Houston, TX. 

Synchronicity in Purple Minor  was inspired by the Synchromy in Purple Minor  by Stanton MacDonald-Wright, which can be seen in the American and Contemporary wing of The Blanton Museum.

I love to think of music in terms of color, and, as it turns out, so did Stanton MacDonald-Wright, who, in 1912, founded an art movement called Synchromism.  This movement is special to me because it is founded on the principle that color and sound are similar phenomena and can be manipulated in similar ways.  

To shed a bit of light on the title, the term Synchronicity was coined by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung and refers to an experience of two or more events that are not causally related but work together in a meaningful manner.  

The work is in three main sections and is framed by an introduction and denouement.  There are three main musical ideas that are prominent throughout the work.  First, the quickly oscillating third used prominently in the piece, which, in my conception, resembles both the “dancing” of the colors in the work and their bleeding into one another as the harmonies change.  The second major element is the unison string technique, which I conceive to be a temporary concentration of color.  The final technique is a quasi-Doppler effect that is created by using quickly alternating pitches while simultaneously getting louder and softer, simulating the way the colors of the painting seem to “pop out” from the surface.  All of these elements are stated in the introduction and then developed throughout the work.

I would like to dedicate this piece to my mother, who, incidentally, was born the same day as its completion.  (Her favorite color is purple)


Synchronicity in Purple Minor

Performed by Ensemble Proton Bern
Matthias Kuhn, conductor

Berkeley, CA - 14 March 2018

Rut (2018) - for eight musicians

Allemande

premiered 4/16 at Duncan Recital Hall - Houston, TX
conductor: Molly Turner
piano: Wesley Ducote

flute: Megan Torti
clarinet/bass clarinet: Justin Best
oboe: Julia Simpson
bassoon/contrabassoon: Kipras Mazeika
horn: David Tarté
trumpet: Ansel Norris
trombone: Caleb Knight
percussion: Erin Graham, Brandon Lim
violins: Francesca Bass, Likai He
viola: Sebastian Stefanović
cello: Jaeyoung Chong
bass: Jesse Fischer

Piano Concerto

"Homebound" for voice and piano
Music by Polina Nazaykinskaya
Text by Konstantin Soukhovetski 

Katie Weber- voice
Konstantin Soukhovetski- piano

Homebound

Dr. Christina Guenther, Flute
Dr. Ron Petti, Piano

52 Blue

2020年作曲。
「Scherzo」は形式ではなく曲自体の「諧謔的」なさまを表しています。
様々に切り替わる楽想をサクソフォン4本が駆け回る小品です。

演奏:
Soprano Saxophone 小松秀介
Alto Saxophone 笠村勇樹
Tenor Saxophone 森田奈旺
Baritone Saxophone 菅山樹

Scherzo for Saxophone Quartet

Hailed as "extremely moving" by New Music Box and "especially sweet" by the Austin American Statesman, the music of Joel Love (b. 1982) explores an eclectic mix of genres, from short video pieces to works for chamber and large ensembles.

Synchronicity in Purple Minor

Joel Love | Composer

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