Premiered by the Hope College Chapel Choir and Orchestra
Alex Cross, organ
Eric D. Reyes, conductor

Commissioned with support from the Patrons of the Arts at Hope College.

Consummatum Est

Premiere performance by the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, Alain Trudel, conductor

As a composer, Sergei Rachmaninoff was a man out of time. While his contemporaries such as Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, and Arnold Schoenberg were creating bold new works of Modernism and atonality, Rachmaninoff clung to the Romantic traditions of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Mussorgsky. When asked about his musical style compared to his contemporaries in an 1939 interview, he responded, "I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me."

a ghost wandering in a world grown alien was commissioned by the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, who requested a work which explored 
nostalgia and responded to the work of Rachmaninoff. This piece imagines Rachmaninoff wandering in this alien musical landscape where he encounters manipulated and twisted quotes of some of his most beloved works, including the Second and Third Piano Concertos, the Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, and the C# Minor Prelude, juxtaposed by quotes from Stravinsky and Schoenberg. 

a ghost wandering in a world grown alien was premiered by the Toledo Symphony Orchestra on May 13 and 14, 2022 in the Peristyle Theater in Toledo, OH. The commissioning of this work was supported by the Edward Schmidt Musical Arts Fund.

a ghost wandering in a world grown alien

Premiere performance by the Lawrence University Wind Ensemble, Andrew Mast, conductor

Lux Aeterna is a fantasy on the Lux Aeterna Gregorian chant, presenting the theme in a quasi-mensuration canon, followed by a number of permutations of it throughout the work. The reverent chant becomes a hopeful hymn, a joyous celebration, a sinister dance, a malicious taunt, and even morphed into the familiar and fearful Dies Irae motive. However, throughout these moods, whether light or dark, the opposite force is also present, illustrating my view that nothing is pure good or evil, light or dark, only a shade in this wide spectrum.

Lux Aeterna

No idea where this one came from. Just kept adding notes and making one decision after the next. Sounds like someone in early 90's using a sample manipulation synth and latin percussion, meditating on pleasant memories from a trip to Zimbabwe.

Love on Lake Kariba

TIki TIki Machine

Faberge

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Make me a Starlet - Instrumental

Guitarist, singer/songwriter, composer and producer. All originals are demos written/recorded through Apple Garage Band & Logic Pro X. No samples or templates have been used. Green Bay, WI

Faberge

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