Nightlight

And You’re Mine (feat. Naomi Crellin)

recorded at Sydney Town Hall Thursday 23 Feb.

HOW WE LOVE

I Dance Myself to Sleep explores the general idea of sleep, but more specifically it relates to a perplexing recurring dream that involves the central ‘female companion’ characters from some of my favourite childhood movies like Superman, the Indiana Jones films and the Star Wars saga. Representing this is a repeated, romantic melody – a ‘love theme’ written at the age of twelve (photographed on back page of this booklet) in homage to the enchanting love themes in film scores by John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith and Max Steiner. However, this recurring dream developed over several years, becoming less whimsical and naive, allegorically suggesting a loss of innocence. This is represented musically in my work by the juxtaposition of sweeping romanticism and haunting musical gestures. The simple melody is played in contexts made bittersweet by complex jazz-based harmonic language that shrouds and taints the unadorned melody. I Dance Myself to Sleep was written for pianist Sally Whitwell and later adapted for orchestra for a commission from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. 

I Dance Myself to Sleep

I Dance Myself To Sleep (Piano)

3rd movement from 'Snap - 3 pieces for solo clarinet'

Snapped from 'Snap - 3 pieces for solo clarinet' (1996)

Written for the 2020 Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive
Composed, Orchestrated, and Conducted by Jarryd Elias
Performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony (Contracted by Peter Rotter, Encompass Music Partners)
Recorded at the Eastwood Scoring Stage, Warner Brothers Studios

Thank you to Angel Velez and David Newman for crafting such an extraordinary program, creating an incredible environment for participants to learn conducting AND working with live musicians. as well as faculty members Conrad Pope and William Ross for sharing their composition, orchestration, and conducting knowledge with all of us.  Additionally, thank you to Emilie Bernstein for her classes on Body Movement, and to Scott Smith for the incredible engineering and mixing of my piece!

What an honor it was to record with the finest LA musicians after a week of learning from the best in the business, and I am so grateful for this opportunity!!

"The Colour of Enamour is every colour I turn when I see you."

Score Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ERWgI16Xqo

JARRYD ELIAS
Composer | Orchestrator | Percussionist
www.JarrydEliasMusic.com
jarryd.elias@gmail.com

The Colour of Enamour

Jubilate Deo - Joseph Twist - All Parts (SATB)

06 Hymn Of Ancient Lands - Twist

Le Tombeau De Monk (Joseph Twist)

performed by Collusion Music Australia:
Benjamin Greaves (Violin), Diana Tolmie (Clarinet), Danielle Bentley (Cello), Brieley Cutting (Piano)

from 'I read the old dream slowly'  (All Australian chamber music)
Studio Recording - 2013.

Joseph Twist: Le Tombeau De Monk - Studio. 2013.

Our first studio album, Sonic Visions, recorded in September 2020 in the Shatto Chapel at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles.

Michael Alfera, artistic director
Tali Tadmor, accompanist
Jett Galindo, recording, mixing, and mastering engineer
Gerald White, album producer

Jubilate Deo (Joseph Twist)

composer/arranger. Created music for the likes of Moby, The Wiggles, Missy Higgins, Kate Miller-Heidke, The Idea of North, Chanticleer, Voces8,  and Disney Animated Series "Bluey".

I Dance Myself To Sleep (Piano)

Joseph Twist

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