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Construction and deconstruction into a beautiful work.

EL SALON MEDICO (1976)
- by Michael Schelle

MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA
Sir Neville Marriner, music director and conductor

N.B.: this recording rescued just in time from an old 1/4 track reel-to-reel tape that was disintegrating!! - the sound quality here is not the greatest stereo high fidelity, for sure ... 
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Written near the end of my studies with Aaron Copland (and intentionally imitating his iconic Americana style of "Billy the Kid" and "Appalachian Spring"), EL SALON MEDICO was my 2nd orchestral piece and dedicated to my brother Patrick (who was beginning his surgery residency at a large Dallas hospital).

This brief piece proved to be a 'one-shot-deal' in this Americana style, and was in NO WAY the harbinger of things to come for me (stylistically), - not by a long shot !! But it was a blast to work on it under the guidance of the great man. It was a thrill, and and honor, to have worked with Copland for nearly 18 months.
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My friend, Pittsburgh composer David Stock, upon hearing the Minnesota Orchestra radio broadcast of EL SALON MEDICO (the title is, of course, a play on the Copland "El Salon Mexico") called me immediately after it ended and said:  "Schelle, dammit !!  So I'm listening to this piece on the radio and I'm thinking 'wait, I thought I knew every Copland orchestral piece there is, but I don't know this, but clearly it IS Copland, or it's a pretty good rip off".
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Another dear friend, Columbus (OH) composer Rocky Reuter, arranged a fantastic wind ensemble version of the piece, just because he 'thought it would be a cool band piece' - and surprized me out of the blue with the score. Now THAT'S true friendship (or complete insanity). The Reuter wind ensemble version has been performed numerous times by university band across the US.
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EL SALON MEDICO (1976) for orchestra

"Ave Maria" by Luke Flynn (2013)
http://www.lukeflynncompositions.com/avemaria

Performed by The University of Wisconsin Platteville "University Singers," Conducted by Brian Burns 

Ave Maria (SATB) - Luke Flynn

"The Hushed House" by Luke Flynn
Commissioned and performed by the Young New Yorkers' Chorus
www.LukeFlynnCompositions.com

I, who went at nightfall, came again at dawn;
On Love's door again I knocked. Love was gone.
One who oft had bade me in, now would bid no more;
Silence sat within the house; barred its door.
When the slow door opened wide through it I could see
How the emptiness within stared at me.
Through the dreary chambers, long I sought and sighed,
But no answering footstep came; naught replied.
Then at last I entered, dim, a darkened room:
There a taper glimmered gray in the gloom.
And I saw one lying crowned with helichrys;
Never saw I face as fair as was theirs.
Like a wintry lily was their brow in hue;
And their cheeks were each a rose, wintry too.
Then my soul remembered all that made us part,
And what I had laughed at once broke my heart.
-Text by Madison Julius Cawein (1865 - 1914)

The Hushed House (SATB) - Luke Flynn

Michael Schelle

HESITATION KILLED THE CAT (2018)

- for "Studio in Bloom" (flute, bass clarinet, harp and cello)

- temporary midi

Premiere:  10 April 2018

N.B.: no cats were harmed in the writing of this music - the title is connected to the 1930's "Schroedinger's Cat" quantum physics experiments ! Verschränkung - perhaps the title should have a "?" at the end ...

Schelle website:  www.schellemusic.com
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HESITATION KILLED THE CAT (2018)

Luke Flynn is a multi award-winning composer who has worked on the scores for some of the biggest movies in the world.
www.LukeFlynnCompositions.com
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