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Three Laments of Heloise – New Music for Chamber Orchestra

Posted in Life, New Compositions, Orchestration, Spirituality, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Queens Envied Me My Joys If Not With You, My Heart is Nowhere My Most Wretched Soul I am very excited to introduce my new composition for chamber orchestra entitled Three Laments of Heloise. The Laments were inspired by the Letters of Abelard and Heloise I read this spring. I was deeply moved by the [...]

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Emerging

Posted in Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

All my days have been written In your book Before any came to be And then you gave me The chisel and a hammer To carve them out From the silence of a boulder I am weighed down By the gravel in my pockets Dust mingles with sweat I can no longer see Or hear [...]

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Sinner’s Prayer

Posted in Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Almighty God Breath of Life Receive this timid sigh Of unorthodox authorship As I seem to have lost My leather-bound prayer book On the way through A mirrored corridor Of a revolving kaleidoscope All-Seeing Omniscient One What is shuffling inside But myriads of patterns Of motives off-centered Ends untied Thoughts uncombed Words unrefined Nothing in [...]

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Song of the Seraphim – New Choral Music

Posted in New Compositions, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on March 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I went to King College in Bristol, Tennessee to witness the premiere of my Song of the Seraphim. Dr. Pat Flannagan and the Chamber Choir performed the piece in a very moving and spirited way. After the concert I was able to chat with a few members of the choir. They told me how much [...]

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Danse Macabre – New Music for Piano Trio

Posted in Life, New Compositions, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

(A sample from a live performance by Paula Farias Bujes, violin, Pedro Huff, cello, and Eva Elizabeth Holder, piano, March 29, 2009.) I am pleased to announce a new composition for violin, cello, and piano entitled “Danse Macabre“. Danse Macabre, a dance of death, is a late medieval allegory of the universality of death. Ravished [...]

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Hearing

Posted in Life, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on September 15, 2006 | 1 Comment »

I sit in the first row in my Musicology class so I don’t get distracted by other students and can better absorb the lecture. In close proximity to my left sits a girl who is majoring in theater studies. I spoke to her briefly couple of weeks ago. Our conversation was awkward and hurried. I [...]

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