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The Henry Ford Old Time Orchestra Plays Real American Tunes
The Henry Ford Old Time Orchestra Plays Real American Tunes Duration: 5:00Completed: 2009Instrumentation: 2222/2221/2 percussion, harp, honky-tonk piano/minimum 22222 strings When Henry Ford approached me and said “young man, I need some music written on paper for my Old Time Orchestra, my Old Time Orchestra, which plays only American music,” I said that I was not sure I wanted…
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The Hardscrabble
Duration: 18:00Completed: 2017Instrumentation: 2+picc,4(min)+E.Hrn,4(min)+contrabsn,3+bass cl. , 1 sop. sax, 2 alto sax, 1 bari. Sax. / 4321 / 4 perc., pno. /00000 Program Notes Dear Reader, Given that my name appears on the right side of the opening page of the score and next to the copyright information for Hardscrabble, it would be understandable if you…
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new site who dis?
The web moved on & broke my old site; rude! So, here is one that is coming together. Lots of exciting things in the works.
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.
