Sensational atmosphere. I love this feeling of flying. A unique work

Quantum's opus next door! Gifted inspiration...

@matt-bowen-14: Thanks for listening, Matt. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Have you seen the little film that accompanies the song? Best wishes, AW-M

Man I love the feel the second I hit play and IM excited to listen to the rest. Very magical!!!

Great work. May I ask in which way this is related to Sega music?

Great work! A lot of masterpiece on your SC. I'm impressed...thanks for sharing.

Awesome whole work, thanks for these splendid tracks

Never-before-broadcast memories from JFK's confidantes recorded just after the assassination. Hosted by legendary journalist Robert MacNeil.

We Knew JFK: Unheard Stories from the Kennedy Archives

Background, context, and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/05/01/jfk-amherst-speech/

MORE/TRANSCRIPT

JFK on poetry and power (Amherst College, 1963)

"Why", P.I. Tchaikovsky's romance
Valeriya Zelenskaya, Soprano


"Why", P.I. Tchaikovsky's romance

I recorded this on my own and then got insecure about  a cappella intro so redid for my album with other musicians. But now I like this version better

Dead Meat Demo

Mixed sextet, written for the Composers Studio 2017 at RCM
Performed by:
Alex Roberts, Clarinet in B flat
Juan Antonio Garcia Illanas, Tenor Saxophone
Rory Cartmell, Trombone
Marie Schreer, Violin
Jenny Ames, Viola
Colin Alexander, Cello

Night Train To I Don't Know

Performed by the RCM wind ensemble, led by Simon Channing, on 15.2.2018

Kuje

Commissioned by the Windsor Symphony Orchestra in celebration of Point Pelee National Park's 100th anniversary.  The work is a musical description of the seasons in the park.  Pelee (Part 1) contains the first 2 sections of the orchestral work ("Snow & Ice", and "The Birds")

Pelee (Part 1): "Snow and Ice" & "The Birds"

Commissioned by the Windsor Symphony Orchestra in celebration of Point Pelee National Park's 100th anniversary. The work is a musical description of the seasons in the park. Pelee (Part 2) contains the last 2 sections of the orchestral work ("Heat and Fog" and "Butterflies")

Pelee (Part 2): "Heat and Fog" & "Butterflies"

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Hui Jin (tenor), Elizabeth Bailey (soprano), Brno Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Mikel Toms.

Music by Andrew Webb-Mitchell
Words by Joanna Boulter

“In Songs of Awe and Wonder, Andrew Webb-Mitchell has created a stunning set of symphonic songs on a grand scale. The music is full of passion and heroism, with glorious harmony and beautiful textures. The orchestration is beautifully detailed and the vocal writing creates a soaring line that carries the listener right through the vast canvas of the cycle. The work is dedicated to Mahler but, although the scale of the work is comparable to a Mahlerian song cycle, the music is in no way derivative and Andrew Webb-Mitchell has his own unique style and sound-world.”

Tasmin Little, violinist

Dreams of Flight is set in Kitty Hawk on a cold December morning in 1903. The Wright brothers are hard at work with final preparations to make the world’s first controlled powered flight. They briefly reflect on the immensity of the task they face but are now willing to throw caution to the wind. As they start the engine, the propellers begin to rotate; movement begins to wake in The Flyer, longing for wind in its wings.

The first flight was made by Orville and lasted only 12 seconds, during which the airplane flew 120 feet. That same day, however, on its fourth flight, with Wilbur at the controls, the plane stayed in the air for 59 seconds and traveled 852 feet before a severe gust of wind severely damaged the craft.

The Wright Brothers helped found modern aviation through their curiosity, their inventiveness, and their unwillingness to give up their vision.

We were young when we began to look up.
We’d ask ourselves whether we’d rise to the heights.
All along we knew we could conquer the skies,
All along we knew what was at stake.
Our dream of flight must challenge us now to throw caution to the winds.
It’s time to see if our courage will hold.

The tense winter air is holding its breath.

Blades rotate, dance and spin.
Drama mounts as movement begins to wake in The Flyer,
now tugging at the rope for its freedom,
longing for wind in its wings!

Tension uplifts us tossed by cold winds gusting to and fro.
Fear and elation buoy us up then bring us back to earth.

Years of work hindered by sceptical minds
tested our resolve time and again.

We were forced to widen the frontiers of innovation.

But now no one can take this away from us
we were first to be there with the birds in the air

The endless line of the horizon lies before us
reminding us our work is just beginning.
A new age has begun.
This is not a time to be discouraged,
We must be undaunted in our purpose and resolve.
Earth and sky lie in wait.
The unreachable heavens elude us no longer.
The eternal cerulean is drawing us closer.

Higher and still higher, further with God speed,
we will follow our vision and hold fast to our fate
as the world looks on.

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Dreams of Flight - Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Mikel Toms

Classical Composer and Director of the British Schools Foundation Choral Programme in China.

Dreams of Flight - Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Mikel Toms

Andrew Webb-Mitchell

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