by Modern Songbook Records | Feb 6, 2012 | Film Scores
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These two tracks are from a three part series for PBS called The Appalachians. The brilliant Phylis Geller produced this under the guiding hand of MariLynn Evans. Sam Green and Barbara Burst edited. The best part of this was putting together an all-star string band: Bob (Sparky) Spates on fiddle and mandolin, Chris Kosky on bass, and Paul Bell on his various guitars. I played the banjo (yes…. who knew?). The recordings were all done at Cue Recording Studios in Falls Church, VA with Ken Shubert engineering. The show premiered on Nashville Public Television in March 2005.
by Modern Songbook Records | Feb 6, 2012 | Film Scores
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Directed by the intellectual wild child, Peter Getzels. He is the poster boy for making ADD work FOR you! I LOVED writing for him. Here are two string tracks that say everything about Peter’s taste in music – and maybe something about mine also.
by Modern Songbook Records | Feb 6, 2012 | Concert Orchestral Works, Orchestral & Chamber
2008 – 7 Movements – Duration: 20 minutes
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String orchestra or String quintet
by Modern Songbook Records | Feb 6, 2012 | Concert Orchestral Works, Orchestral & Chamber
2004 – 1 Movement – Duration: 10 minutes
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Minimum orchestra required: 2 fl(picc), 2 ob (EH), 2 cl, 2bsn, 3 trp, 4 hrn, 3 trb, tba, 3 perc, timp, harp, strings
Description: This was originally a ballet score written for Natalie Moffet-Smith. It is a very cool piece of very colorful music.
Score Sheet
by Modern Songbook Records | Feb 6, 2012 | Concert Orchestral Works, Orchestral & Chamber
Duration: 18 min
Minimum orchestra required: 2 fl(picc), 2 ob(EH), 2 cl, 2bsn, 3 trp, 4 hrn, 3 trb, tba, 3 perc, timp, harp, strings
1348 was the worst year of the plague. The population of medieval Europe was nearly cut in half over the course of a few years. There are many strange parallels between the 14th century and our own: a belief that the apocalypse is near, a surge in religious fundamentalism, an unexplained and incurable pestilence. I would just refer the curious to Barbara Tuchman’s brilliant history, A Distant Mirror. Why I felt this was something to write music about is something that will have to remain between my therapist and myself.
Click here to download the score.
