Ceremonies Out of the Air
Keir Neuringer - saxophone

Available on CD & gatefold double LP from New Atlantis Records
Release date 4/22/14

Composed in performance on August 23, 2013 at First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia
Recorded & mixed by Eugene Lew
Mastered by Kato Hideki
Album art by Erin Rice
Designed by Erin Rice & Keir Neuringer
Produced by Keir Neuringer
With help from & thanks to Brit Campese
To the memory of Esther Neuringer (1947-2013)

i dreamt there was nothing wrong with my chemistry

Archivum Mirum et Turbarum MMIII (2004) [excerpt]
for trombone & large ensemble
Performed by Ryan Zawel & students of the Ithaca College School of Music
total work duration: 16'

Archivum Mirum et Turbarum MMIII [excerpt 1]

Archivum Mirum et Turbarum MMIII (2004) [excerpt]
for trombone and large ensemble
Performed by Ryan Zawel & students of the Ithaca College School of Music
total work duration: 16'

Archivum Mirum et Turbarum MMIII [excerpt 2]

ELEGY FOR THE BAKR CHILDREN ON GAZA BEACH (2014)
in memoriam: Ismail Mahmoud Bakr, Ahed Atef Bakr, Zakariya Bakr, Mohammad Ramiz Bakr

This composition is an elegy for four boys, cousins aged 9, 10, and 11, who were targeted and killed by the Israeli military on July 16, 2014 while playing together on the beach in Gaza. This incident occurred in full sight of international observers and was covered by the media extensively at the time. It was one atrocity among the many meted out against the people of Palestine by the occupying Israeli military during "Operation Protective Edge", and before, and since.

I did not know these children. I composed this work over the following ten days and first performed it in Philadelphia on July 26, 2014. I wanted to bring awareness of this atrocity into the spaces where I work and engage the public. I wrote this elegy to Ismail, Ahed, Zakariya, and Mohammad to hold up their names and support the struggle of their families for self-determination. This composition is offered with humility and in both sorrow and anger.

The recording took place in January 2015 at the Neighborhood House in Philadelphia, with members of Prometheus Orchestra, a social justice oriented string ensemble headquartered at Church of the Advocate in North Philly.

Russell Kotcher - violin
Joseph Kaufmann - violin
Veronica Jurkiewicz - viola
Jennifer Boorum - viola
Eric Coyne - cello
Jerrell Jackson - bass
Keir Neuringer - saxophone, composition

audio/video recording: T.C. Owens
video of the reading here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBTIb9WTJDE
Prometheus Orchestra: http://www.prometheusorchestra.org

ELEGY FOR THE BAKR CHILDREN ON GAZA BEACH (2014)

Elegy for the schoolboys at Ghazi Khan was commissioned by and written for Netherlands-based contemporary music group Modelo 62 in January 2010. The title refers to the execution of ten people (an adult, eight schoolboys and a ninth visiting child) in Ghazi Khan village in Eastern Afghanistan on Decmeber 27, 2009. They were dragged from their beds in the night and shot, apparently by U.S. Special Forces. Some of the boys were handcuffed at the time of the murders.

About Ensemble Modelo 62: http://modelo62.com
Web resources for the Ghazi Khan massacre:
http://warisacrime.org/node/48952
http://open.salon.com/blog/jacob_freeze_x/2010/01/01/afghan_children_handcuffed_then_killed_by_american_soldiers
http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/rawagallery.php?mghash=c4152e542b807ec656ced991278bd3e8&mggal=8

Elegy for the schoolboys at Ghazi Khan

Piano Concerto
(piano, 15 strings, 5 percussionists)
written february - december 2000, Kraków/Zabnice PL
performed 15 may 2001 - Academy of Music in Kraków
Sabina Warchol, piano
Przemyslaw Fiugajski, conductor
Students of the Academy of Music in Kraków

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