Intro music to the podcast "Performance Notes" featuring Lucas Garner and Kyle West in discussion about the arts, motivation and the notion of passion in every day life. 

Performance Notes Theme

King of Kings is a symphonic poem for Wind Ensemble that translates the imagery described in Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" into music. Some sections of the work are aleatoric and require the players to improvise. Others are very strictly and specifically notated. The piece was written as an entry into JMU's new music for wind ensemble competition.

King Of Kings (Mockup Recording)

Pulverize is a short, energetic solo for five-octave marimba utilizing harmonic and rhythmic ideas derived from blues and rock music. It is dedicated to Kyle West, my long time friend and enthusiast of blues and rock music.

To purchase a copy of this piece and secure the premiere performance, visit lucasgarner.com and look for the piece in the store!

Pulverize (Mockup Recording)

Dialogues of Hades is a concerto for tuba in six contrasting movements available in multiple versions. The piece lasts approximately 18 minutes and follows an originally crafted narrative surrounding the Greek mythological character Hades, the guardian of the underworld.  

This piece was premiered by Preston Light (tuba) and Paul Thurmond (piano) on April 6th, 2017. 

For more information on this piece, please visit http://lucasgarner.com/store/dialogues-of-hades-piano-reduction

Dialogues Of Hades Mvt. 1 (Piano Reduction)

Dialogues of Hades is a concerto for tuba in six contrasting movements available in multiple versions. The piece lasts approximately 18 minutes and follows an originally crafted narrative surrounding the Greek mythological character Hades, the guardian of the underworld.  

This piece was premiered by Preston Light (tuba) and Paul Thurmond (piano) on April 6th, 2017.

Dialogues Of Hades Mvt. 2 (Piano Reduction)

Dialogues Of Hades Mvt. 3 (Piano Reduction)

Dialogues Of Hades Mvt. 4 (Piano Reduction)

Dialogues Of Hades Mvt. 5 And Mvt. 6 (Piano Reduction)

A Simple Machine is one of the more challenging works I've written, but in this excellent performance, Caleb Pickering really shows what this piece is about. I hope that this piece demonstrates the kind of energy and fun I want my music to have going forward. 

The score of this piece uses musical representations of some simple machines (lever, wedge, inclined plane, etc) to more organically effect the momentum of a snare drum solo.

A Simple Machine For Solo Snare Drum

Writing about this piece is incredibly difficult. I’ve been trying for almost a year (since I originally wrote the piece) to accurately describe what I hope the audience to hear in the piece.

It’s nearly impossible to do so.

Instead, I want to simply express that this piece reflects my own battle with anxiety and depression. Far too many people in the music profession, across all styles and disciplines, experience a similar struggle. In the United States, we’ve reached a peak number of people battling with these issues. This piece is dedicated to the hundreds of thousands of people suffering from these mental illnesses in my country alone, as well as the millions more across the world battling with the same demons.

There is nothing we can do that is more important than making others in the world feel like they have a place in our lives.

This performance was recorded by Adam DiPersio (marimba)and Casey Cangelosi (audio tech)

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