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On the Floodis of Babiloyne
On the Floodis of Babiloyne Duration: 10:00Completed: 2006Instrumentation: Alto Saxophone and Computer (Max/MSP; 2 channel)Dedication: For Nathan Mandel Program Notes The psalm that begins “By the waters of Babylon…” is a shared holy text for practitioners of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The Israelite writer speaks with a stunning ruthless fury, apparently from the midst of…
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Remains
Remains Duration: 13:00Instrumentation: Bass and ElectronicsDedication: For Scott Worthington Program Notes Everyone has only their own language. I speak the language that I alone understand, absolutely no one else, just like everyone else does and those that say they understand you are blockheads and charlatans, so then a polemic can only be a war against…
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Set the Table on a Roar
Set the Table on a Roar Duration: 15:00Completed: 2010Instrumentation: Flute and PianoDedication: For Zuza and Carmen Program Notes Lathem: Tell me, Oathior, do you not find fingered jacks dull, or even displeasing?Oathior: How is that, my Lord?Lathem: Music is with memory a bedfellow. Hearing it, I feel as a string in that box of jacks,…
Described as “evocative” (Resonance) and “surreal” music “to bewilder, amuse, and provoke” (Epoch Times), the works of composer Sarah Genevieve Burghart Rice have won great acclaim and inspired intense debate. Burghart Rice received a 2009 ASCAP/Morton Gould Young Composer Award and took 1st Prize in the 2005 Salvatore Martirano Award. Her music has been championed internationally by ensembles such as the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra (Marin Alsop, director), the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, and Juventas.
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Some fantastic musicians and I are working on an album set to release on Neuma Records called Where?. This recording will feature older compositions such as Murmurs from Limbo (the picture above is from that recording session, conducted by Dr. Kathryn Hylton) and new compositions such as Roses less than a Mile from Schlow Library, which is written for the Pennsylvania Quintet. It also features Dr. Tonya Mitchell Spradlin conducting the premiere recording of my mammoth wind ensemble piece The Hardscrabble.
The Penn State School of Music, where I teach, presents the 2023 Penn State New-Music Festival and Symposium. It will take place March 24-25, 2023, featuring the work of composers and scholars selected through an international call for scores and research proposals. We received over 650 submissions from 30 countries. The 2023 festival will feature PSU students and faculty, string quartet in residence Mivos Quartet, guest ensemble Open Music, saxophone quartet Capitol Quartet, and guest percussion quartet Matchstick Percussion.
