Lexie Ross Directors' Cup Acceptance at Orlando World Center Marriott

I've never witnessed hail bigger than a dime-size in diameter. This hail storm yielded small golf ball-sized hail. You'll hear sirens come in at some point, thunder, and the sound the hail hitting the metal air conditioner units below my window. Unfortunately, I messed with the levels as it was recording due to fluctuating signals and the fact that I'm still kind of new to this field recording stuff.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Denton Hail, Thunder, and Sirens.WAV

O Mary: a prayer for the year of the insane, Pamela Madsen composer, 
Arditti String Quartet 
O Mary (2002) is based on the translation of the text of poem by Anne Sexton: O Mary, A prayer for the year of the insane into a language for strings. Composed for the Arditti Quartet, this work was written for the Acanthes Festival, Avignon-Villeneuve, France and the space where it was premiered; the ancient ruins of the 6th Century Chartreuse
Monastery and the palatial residences founded by Pope Innocent VI in 1356. Having been in residence in Avignon, Messiaen’s birthplace the previous summer, I noted that birds would swoop into the open ruins of Chartreuse during concerts when certain pitches, intensities, harmonies where evoked. I composed this work in homage to those birds, to
Messiaen and to the tragedies this ancient space witnessed ---and sure enough, during the premiere performance the bird swooped down and began to cry. The electronic amplified version of this work was premiered by Ethel (2005) and new complete revised version by JACK Quartet in 2011. The work has been revised and premiered by Lyris Quartet (2018)at the Hear Now Festival and will be recorded as part of Oratorio for the Earth: There Will Come Soft Rains

O Mary (2006-2018)

Performed/composed by Jane Rigler, on piccolo and pump organ (simultaneously) on August 26th, 2016, at the Civitella Ranieri chapel. Made in one track, no over-dubbing or other edits, besides minor mastering/mixing.
Gratitude to Composers Now and Civitella Ranieri for making this piece possible.

St. Christopher's shoulders (for piccoloist playing the pump organ), 2016

Lost Horse Mine: for Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, Eclipse String Quartet, Vicki Ray pianist, Saousan Jarjour, voice-premiered February 21, 2018

O Mary (2006-2018)

Pamela Madsen Composer

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