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I love brio, and that alcoholic one is spectacular!

Just listened to Elegies, and I’m once again struck by how powerful that song cycle is.

‘The living was the prize / the ending’s not the story’

When I heard the news, I sat at my desk and listened to ‘I Feel So Much Spring’. The tears instantly welled up. He had an uncanny talent to communicate something so simple, so direct, and so personal.

Tony Winner William Finn Has Died at 73 The composer/lyricist was responsible for some of the most popular cult musicals of all time, including Falsettos , A New Brain , and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

William Finn’s passing has really hit me hard. Much harder than I expected. His music has meant to much to me. His songs have inspired me, comforted me, consoled me, and brought me infinite joy.

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Reflecting on the life of Val Kilmer, two of his roles made a huge impact on me at a very impressionable time: his appearance in the music video for Tenacious D’s ‘To Be The Best’ — the most stirring short film I’ve ever seen — and as Dieter von Cunth in MacGruber.

Just finished watching North of North, and I really hope there will be a second season. My girlfriend and I were laughing and crying all throughout. One of the best shows I’ve watched in a while.

JP Saxe on how his famous cellist grandfather, Janos Starker, got to 'the bottom of beauty' | CBC Music Starker was a leading soloist with some of the world's greatest orchestras, and his attention to detail can be felt through his grandson's pop music.

I had the opportunity to produce this interview with JP Saxe for About Time on CBC Music. You can read this article I wrote and listen to the radio hour here

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My favourite is probably the Chailly/Gewandhaus cycle. The Paavo Jarvi recordings are up there as well.

1. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
2. Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen
3. Britten: Peter Grimes
4. Weill: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
5. Somers: Louis Riel
6. Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
7. Verdi: Rigoletto
8. Ravel: L’enfant et les Sortilèges

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I love the music of Harry Somers, especially the Symphony N1 and String Quartet N2. Also worth mentioning his five piano sonatas, the Piano Concerto N3, and his last opera, ‘Mario and the Magician’. I’d love to see these in concert, or have new recordings made.

I received countless rejections from different calls for scores, proposals, and workshops, but I feel like I’m getting better at accepting the rejection, and also getting better at sending out applications I’m proud of. That’s a success to me.

A performance of a pre-existing piece, by an ensemble different than the one that premiered it

I attended a workshop, leading to the performance of a brand-new piece written for that occasion

As a composer, it’s easy to look back and be frustrated at a year of rejections and opportunities that didn’t happen. But I’m going to take a moment to appreciate the successes I had:

The Paris and Haffner symphonies have been some of my longtime favourites. They contain so much of the humour and charm that first made me obsessed with Mozart. My first recording was the Colin Davis with Staatskapelle Dresden, and I’ve also fallen in love with this recent recording from AfAMB

Going to Kitchener-Waterloo

And I think it’s safe to saw that most of these streams came from one songs: Going to Kitchener-Waterloo

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I feel very lucky that people still listen to my music, even when I haven’t been actively promoting it for a few years. I plan on getting back to this project soon. I’m sitting on a few demos that I’m really proud.

The Faithful, by Gabriel Kahane from the album Gabriel Kahane

Was reminded of the wonderful @gabrielkahane.bsky.social song ‘The Faithful’ earlier today, and it’s now been stuck in my head now for hours and hours. This whole album is one of my desert island discs gabrielkahane.bandcamp.com/track/the-fa...

𝄆 Music theory is not an oppressive set of rules on how to make music. It is just the act of analyzing music. 𝄇

[Gustave Samazeuilh] String Quartet in D Minor (Score-Video) YouTube video by Quinone Bob

#nowlistening to Gustave Samazeulih’s String Quartet. I just happened to stumble across the score on IMSLP, and wanted to see if there was a recording. What a gorgeous piece! I particularly love the third movement

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I love this performance of it by my friend, Emily Morse. I wrote the work with her sound in mind.

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If I have to point to just one piece I’m proud of, it would definitely be my Poem for Flute. It’s a very personal work for me, and one that I think succeeds in everything I tried to do. It’s also the first piece I wrote to receive multiple performances from different musicians.

AI is all fiction. I’d rather see a real person’s impression of a life lived than a computer’s recreation.

He was real. And every image is at best an approximation. Photos are not any more real than paintings. They rely on focal lengths and lighting to best not distort the image. They are moments captured in time like a fossil in amber, not a recreation of life.

‘Here’s what Beethoven would look like in real life’ FUCK OFF!!!

I want to puke every time I look up info about a person and the first result is an AI image

Also, the Second String Quartet. Definitely one of my bucket list pieces.

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Symphony No. 1: I. Prologue - Lento - 1st Subject Harry Somers, Canadian National Arts Centre Orchestra, Victor Feldbrill · Spring Of Somers (The) · Song · 2000

Every time I think of Harry Somer’s Symphony #1, I am in awe. This has been one of my favourite symphonies for many years, and I hope one day I’ll be able to conduct it in concert

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