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A Clean, Well-Lighted… – String Quartet No. 5

Stefano Bulfon: "String Quartet n° 2"
Fragment: Palinopsia (2019)

André Pons-Valdes, Sona Khochafian, Violin
Béatrice Gendek, Viola
Pierre Strauch, Cello
   
Intro/Outro Electronics: Stefano Bulfon

Live recording, Rencontres Musicales de Jaugette, 21 July 2019

Stefano Bulfon: "String Quartet n° 2"   Fragment: Palinopsia (2019)

a personal composition, recorded on a live stage, Performed by the Premiere string quartet at my university
String Quartet No. 1; Op. 1
Apocalypse: The Four Horsemen
"I. Pestilence" 0:00
"II. Famine" 3:45
"III. War" 7:00 (attacca)
"IV. Death" 9:40

Apocalypse - The Four Horsemen; String Quartet No. 1; Op. 1

Recorded by Karen Garrity Music in the famous Wayfarer's Chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA.  

Norm Hughes violin
Pamela Foard, violin
Lila Hood, viola
Halley Feaster, cello
Ryland Talamo, audio engineer
Michael Engesser, post-production audio mixing
Wayfarers Video, video

Wagner, Bridal Chorus

Commissioned by the Emergence String Quartet - LaDonna "Tamakawastewin" (Good Earth Woman) Brave Bull Allard (June 8, 1956 – April 10, 2021) was a Native American Lakota historian, genealogist, spiritual leader and matriarch of the water protector movement, and instrumental in the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Water Protector Protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016-2017. She will be remembered historically as a brave indigenous American for her struggle to keep water clean for over 18 million Americans in seven states downstream of  the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation’s Lake Oahe via the Missouri River. This work is dedicated to her memory.

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June 19, 2022

"Mni Wiconi" - Water is Life, a short string quartet in C minor, Opus 30 by

The first movement of the String Quartet in D.

- Music Video at;
https://youtu.be/F0sSETC4RC8

-Free Sheet Music at:
https://pascalechemann.com/my-music/opus-group/string-quartet-in-d/1

Le Printemps

Andantino

String Quartet in D - I. Andantino

Cut and Fade 2

Recorded on February 8, 2022, at Ruby Lounge, Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University. This piece is possible through the generous support of Ciompi Quartet, and this piece is commissioned by Ciompi Quartet as part of their Portfolio Project 2021.

Eric Pritchard - Violin
Hsiao-mei Ku - Violin
Jonathan Bagg - Viola
Caroline Stinson - Cello

Audio recorded and edited by Mark Manring (https://www.manring.net)

Program Note:      

Ondulation explores different forms and speeds of a gentle rising and falling motion. In Ondulation 1, this wave-like motion takes a more subtle form at a slower speed, whereas in Ondulation 2, the undulating motion is carried out directly on the surface level with a fast arpeggiation figure. To me, “ondulation” also means to move forward in a cyclic yet linear motion and eventually reach a certain spot. Following this line of thought, this piece also explores, in a non-monolinear fashion, two different possibilities for reaching the ending shared by movement 1 and 2.

Ondulation is commissioned by and dedicated to the Ciompi Quartet. I am most grateful for their support of Duke University’s graduate composers and the local community here at Durham, and I hope they will enjoy this piece as much as I do.

More info: https://www.linghuijuan.com
Find the premiere video on: https://youtu.be/6fjAKBEumtU

Ondulation

Cold Quartet

This piece was inspired by the readings of "a rumor of war" Written by Philip Caputo and "A Bell For Adano" Written By John Hersey. Written for Columbia College Chicago.

Instrumentation: String Quartet & Piano

© 2022 Paul Milkent

Paul Milkent- Thousand Yard Stare

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Student at Columbia College Chicago. Current and Future Film Composer.
If Interested in using any pieces or looking for some music to be made for a project just send a message or email me at pmilkent@yahoo.com

Huijuan Ling is an award-winning and internationally-performed composer who’s currently based in Durham, NC. She likes to draw her inspirations from extramusical sources and enjoys writing for novel ensembles and discovering interesting combinations of sound. Her music has been performed by ensembles such as Ciompi Quartet, Imani Winds, Yarn/Wire, JACK Quartet, Line Upon Line Percussion, Patchwork Duo, and others.


In 2021, she was awarded the William Klenz Prize in Composition; in 2020, she was among the recipients of the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 2019, she won the third prize in the SIMM 2019 International Harpsichord Composition Competition; in 2016, she was a finalist in the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Orchestral Composition Competition; and in 2011, she won the Distinguished Work in Experimental Music Award from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Her works have been presented in calls for scores and music festivals such as Yarn/Wire International Institute, Weekend of Chamber Music, Nief-Norf Summer Festival, Line Upon Line Winter Composer Festival, and Midwest Composer’s Symposium.

Huijuan is currently a PhD candidate in Composition at Duke University, studying with Stephen Jaffe. She received her MM at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and her BA at Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

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It was Summer of 1960 and Larry David MacGregor Blumenthal attended a live San Diego Symphony concert for the first time. He was ten. The piece which truly caught his mind’s fascination was from “El amor brujo" - (Danza ritual del fuego) by Manuel de Falla. Desperately he wanted to keep fresh in his mind the sound and quality of that piece when he got home, so he tried to devise a written code that would recreate the song for him in the future. But he was just not clever enough to create such a system of notation in one night. Not long after this, he found out there was an international system already in place which hailed from over 500 years of Western musical culture! After the impact of that first exposure to classical music, Larry began studying music earnestly on his own. It wasn’t long before he was wading through music theory books, and eventually full scores by Debussy, Ravel, Holst, Beethoven, Mahler, Delius, Vaughan Williams, Grofé, Copland, Britten, and Stravinsky. Despite his love for music, his future would actually be in Television and Film. Larry entered the film business in Hollywood as a young assistant cinematographer having set his priorities toward earning a living and raising kids. The typically long fifteen hour days precluded composition. Yet, music was always involved despite the difficult schedule. Forty years later a producer friend of his asked if Larry would score his documentary feature. But, the film had to be delivered in five weeks. To the producers' relief, Larry created a 75 minute score in just 4-1/2 weeks. After this successful revival of his interest in composition, Larry had begun listening to his muse once again and a sudden outpouring of new compositions ensued. He even began writing verismo scores for events as they were happening just for art and historical sake. Although it’s hard to break into the competitive music world so late in life, Blumenthal found inspiration through traveled activism and involvement with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe as a water protector during the Dakota Access Pipeline standoff in North Dakota. When he returned to California a switch had been turned on in his mind and soul. The events he witnessed, participated in and experienced, inspired his Symphony 2, "Standing Rock" for full orchestra and chorus finished in just ten months. It was as if he was writing a film score for contemporaneous living events. To date Larry considers Symphony 2 “Standing Rock” his most important work. Virtually all the music posted here was composed since that symphony was completed. Certainly, he will strive to compose as much as possible despite his lack of youth. Musically, Larry was kindly mentored by Gerald Kirk, Danlee Mitchell, David Ward-Steinman, Norman Rost, William Hoehne, David Ernst and Samuel Adler. LDMB’s continued study of music and piano has primarily been self pursued and acquired. Although quite knowledgeable regarding orchestration, musicology and general music theory, he feels he is at best a marginal pianist. Nonetheless, many piano performances on this site are him trying his best. Larry composes because he must. Everything you hear is written down, not the product of random smatterings on a DAW. Great books and films are made because they have to be, right along with wonderful far reaching classical music or film scores. This is the essence of all great classical art: They exist because they must and are written down for posterity! Vita brevis, ars longa.  'Til death we do art! (contact: larry.cinema@gmail.com)

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