After weeks of rumination, today came in just a few quick moments the reference passage, the opening 4 bars for my Kaléko Sonata.
The move into bar 3 is the crux of my setting of "Zeitgemässe Ansprache"; holographic Ry Cooder is from my setting of "Der Kleine Unterschied".
Der kleine Unterschied
Es sprach zum Mister Goodwill
Ein Deutscher Emigrant:
"Gewiß, es bleibt dasselbe,
sag ich nun *land* statt Land,
sag ich für Heimat *homeland*
und *poem* für Gedicht.
Gewiß, ich bin sehr happy:
Doch glücklich bin ich nicht.
The little difference
Thus spoke to Mister Goodwill
A German emigrant:
"Certainly, it remains the same
I now say *land* instead of country,
I say for Heimat homeland
and *poem* for poem.
Certainly, I am very happy:
But I'm not happy.

Kaléko Sonata

Commissioned by RSF and Cantori NY, this is from Frank Brickle's 

Four Songs

#2  Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson

Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine
There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed
Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine;
And I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
    Yea, I was desolate and bowed my head:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.

All night upon mine heart I felt her warm heart beat,
Night-long within mine arms in love and sleep she lay;
Surely the kisses of her bought red mouth were sweet;
But I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
    When I awoke and found the dawn was grey:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.

I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind,
Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng,
Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind,
But I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
    Yea, all the time, because the dance was long:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.

I cried for madder music and for stronger wine,
But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire,
Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine;
And I am desolate and sick of an old passion,
    Yea, hungry for the lips of my desire:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.

Frank Brickle's Cynara

Sting put him on the map,
But he was already on the map,

Anderson guitar demo

Anderson plays Dowland Forlorne Hope Fantasie

Electric Counterpoint, Mvt. II
by Steve Reich
Daniel Conant, soloist
Sheer Pluck session at Bronxville School
April 14, 2014

Jeremy Tressler, engineer

William Anderson, conductor
Guitarists
Daniel Conant, "live" guitarist
Liz Hogg, Koh Kazama, David Bradley
Eric Anderson,  Emma Capp, Jocelyn Zorn, 
Valentina Savu, Zeke Bardash, Josh Rosenblum
Brandon Gaines, Jeff Starace, Steve Gomez
Christopher Rispoli, Morgana Cragnotti

Sheer Pluck does Reich, Electric Counterpoint, mvt. II

Leo Brouwer Cuban Landscape with Rain
Sheer Pluck session at Bronxville School
April 14, 2014

Jeremy Tressler, engineer

William Anderson, conductor
Guitarists
Daniel Conant, Liz Hogg, Koh Kazama, Christopher Rispoli
Eric Anderson,  Emma Capp, Jocelyn Zorn, 
Valentina Savu, Zeke Bardash, Josh Rosenblum
Brandon Gaines, Jeff Starace, Steve Gomez,
Morgana Cragnotti, David Bradley

Leo Brouwer's Cuban Landscape with Rain

Rehearsal of Emil Awad's 
Cuatro Elementos

Pascaul Araujo
Ebin Samuel
Kyle Miller
Pablo Sanchez
Jonathan Ramirez
Charlee Ray Price
Ricardo Arias
Xavier Paez Haubold

William Anderson, conductor

Emil Awad Cuarto Elementos - Rehearsal with Sheer Pluck

Wuorinen's *CYGNUS* LIVE

David Loeb's
Hail Wind
for Biwa Orchestra
Movement I

William Anderson, conductor
Kyle Miller, Xavier Paez Haubold, Pascual Araujo,
Jonathan Ramirez, Pablo Sanchez, Murad Samoon, 
Austin Tobia, Charlee Ray Price, Ebin Samuel,
Ricardo Arias

HAIL WIND Edit_01

Recorded in early October, 2019 at Dreamflower Studio
Jeremy Tressler, engineer and editor

Thanks, Maestro Robert Morris for this little marvel from 2003.

This piece was one of Morris' first canon pieces and also turns the corner into his 21st C. sound.

William Anderson performs Robert Morris' *Apres Vous* (Edit2)

Ursual Mamlok
Five Intermezzi

guitarist 
William Anderson
live at NY Society for Ethical Culture
2002

William Anderson does Ursua Mamlok Five Intermezzi Live at Wolpe Centennial

Cygnus does selections from Stefan Wolpe's

Music for Any Instruments

Jacqueline LeClair
Cal Wiersma, vln
Susannah Chapman, vc
Oren Fader, guitar
William Anderson mandolin

Wolpe MFAI

William Anderson plays Robert Pollack Metaphor

Cygnus
Joel Suben, conductor
1898

Sarn Oliver, violin soloist
Tara Helen O'Connor, flute
William Anderson, guitar
Bronwen Jones, clarinet
Peter Jarvis, marimba
Bob Kassinger, bass
Daniel Kennedy, percussion
Alexandra Cook, horn
Paul Rafanelli, bassoon

Robert Pollock's *Revolution*

Robert Pollock Metaphor For Vibraphone

Sheer PlucK
Is a plucked string group based in Queens, New York, led by guitarist William Anderson.

William Anderson on tiple
Lizz Hogg, theorbo
Valentina Savu, guitar

This is the Andean version of a priceless villancico by Joan de Triana, "Andean" in that the tiple is an amazing instrument from Columbia.  The villancico, the Spanish version of the French chanson and the Italian frottola, did come to Latin America.  Columbia had composers who were active just shortly after Juan de Triana.   Juan de Triana flourished around the time of Columbus.

Con Temor bivo by Juan de Triana

Sheer PlucK
Is a plucked string group based in Queens, New York, led by guitarist William Anderson.

William Anderson on tiple
Lizz Hogg, theorbo
Valentina Savu, guitar

This is the Andean version of an anonymous villancico, "Andean" in that the tiple is a plucked string instrument from Columbia. The villancico, the Spanish version of the French chanson and the Italian frottola, did come to Latin America. Columbia had composers who were active just shortly after this work, which was from around the time of Columbus.

Tiple is a Columbian guitar with 4 courses, each course with three strings. The second through fourth strings are arrayed with the fundamental in the middle and an octave string on either side. The first string is 3 unisons at the standard first string pitch.

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