The original Juilliard version from 1996. For triple string quartet.

Tree

In fourteen variations on a musical theater song by Broadway phenom Jason Robert Brown, “JRB”'s brilliant 11 o’clock number varies not only in typical concert variation manipulations, but also in harmonic language and musical styles.

https://jonathannewman.com/music/jrb-variations

JRB Variations

Pianist Alexander Bernstein
"World of the Piano" Performance Series
Sunday, November 13, 2022
Armstrong Concert Hall, Winchester, Virginia

Performed by the U.S. Marine Band on Feb. 2, 2014 at Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center in Alexandria, VA
Maj. Jason K. Fettig, conducting
http://www.marineband.marines.mil/AudioResources/WebExclusives.aspx#newmusic
©2003 OK Feel Good Music

Chunk

Bubble Gum Pop, in convenient concert band form.
Stanislaus Wind Ensemble | Stuart Sims, conductor

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Single [demo]

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]

Jacob Moyer & Garrick Zoeter
Live, WORLD PREMIERE
2023 ClarinetFest™, Denver CO

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Knowledge Workers

From composer and podcaster, Garrett Hope: Doing what works, the power of clear notation, and Robert Heinlein in Ep 131 of The Portfolio Composer

http://theportfoliocomposer.com/ep-131-jonathan-newman-on-doing-what-works/

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Ep 131-Jonathan Newman on Doing What Works

Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras, conducted by Music Director Allen Tinkham - Live at Orchestra Hall, May 13, 2012

If the system isn't working anymore, then do what Guy Fawkes tried and go anarchist: Blow it all up, and start again. 

Blow It Up, Start Again

Shenandoah Conservatory Wind Ensemble
Timothy J. Robblee, conductor
(2019)
https://jonathannewman.com/music/novel-romance

Novel Romance

iii. "Falling drops of water do not cause inflection."
iv. "a live insect is more efficient than a dead one"

Great Noise Ensemble, Nov. 9, 2012

These Inflected Tentacles, mvts. iii-iv

Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble
conducted by Dr. Mallory Thompson
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Evanston IL
April 19, 2013

Symphony No. 1, My Hands Are a City

The Florida State University Chamber Winds and Women's Glee Club
Richard Clary, conductor

Opperman Music Hall, Tallahassee FL, April 11, 2013 
Dr. Judy Bowers, Music Director, University Women's Glee Club
SCALE SHIFT by Marcella Durand, used by kind permission of Belladonna* Series and Marcella Durand.


Vivid Geography

The Florida State University Wind Orchestra
Richard Clary, conductor

Ruby Diamond Concert Hall, Tallahassee FL, April 15, 2013

Sowing Useful Truths

mvt. ii. Foxtrot
from PRAYERS OF STEEL, for John Corigliano's 75th Birthday
Gaudete Brass Quintet
Live - May 18, 2013, Normal IL

Foxtrot

Jonathan Newman composes music rich with rhythmic drive and intricate sophistication, creating broadly colored musical works that incorporate styles of pop, blues, jazz, folk, and funk into otherwise classical models. Trained as a pianist, trombonist, and singer, his work is informed by an upbringing performing in orchestras, singing in jazz choirs, playing in marching bands, and accompanying himself in talent shows. From opera to bubblegum pop, Newman delivers a new perspective on American concert music. Recent work includes MASS, a large-scale project with texts by poet Victoria Chang which premiered in 2018 with The Choir of Trinity Wall Street as part of their Mass Reimaginings commissioning program. In 2016 he was appointed Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras Composer-in-Residence; CYSO’s 2011 commission BLOW IT UP, START AGAIN has been performed by orchestras worldwide, including the Minnesota Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony, the 2015 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the 2015 BBC Proms. He is currently working with playwright Gary Winter on an imaginary ballet suite project for the Florida State University Wind Orchestra. He resides in Virginia, where he serves as Director of Composition & Coordinator of New Music at Shenandoah Conservatory.

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