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"Celebracion Mexicana" For String Orchestra, Dominic Dousa Apr 2012

"Celebracion Mexicana" For String Orchestra, Dominic Dousa

Dominic Dousa

A performance of my original composition by the UTEP String Orchestra, conducted by Lowell Graham.


Les Structures Du Rêve, For Two Marimbas And Multipercussion., Bruno Louchourn Dec 2011

Les Structures Du Rêve, For Two Marimbas And Multipercussion., Bruno Louchourn

Bruno Louchouarn

Recent studies have likened dreams to virtual reality. They are much closer in nature to our conscious life than previously thought. In many ways the apprehension of dreams parallel that of music. In both case a stream of virtually real events is pieced together and accepted by the mind in a very intuitive fashion, with similar suspension of disbelief, and similar level of aesthetic responses from the beautiful to the disturbing. Their structure is clear from moment to moment but less precisely felt globally


Half String Quartet: Duo In Three Parts For Violin And Cello [20'], Randy Bauer Dec 2011

Half String Quartet: Duo In Three Parts For Violin And Cello [20'], Randy Bauer

Randy R. Bauer

Premiere: Tarn Travers and Eric Kutz, Macalester College, March 2013 Additional performances at Luther College, March 2013 Recorded for release by Tarn Travers and Eric Kutz


Porphyria's Lover For Tenor And Piano [10'], Randy Bauer Dec 2011

Porphyria's Lover For Tenor And Piano [10'], Randy Bauer

Randy R. Bauer

No abstract provided.


Vox Populi, For Timpani And Electronics, Bruno Louchourn Dec 2011

Vox Populi, For Timpani And Electronics, Bruno Louchourn

Bruno Louchouarn

Vox populi is the voice of the people, the crowd. It expresses our basic feelings, emotions, or demand, often in a quasi-verbal fashion. These are utterances we share and understand spontaneously--something raw, intuitive but also capable of subtle changes. The tape represents these collective voices, the immediate rhetorical mode of address. The timpani matches the raw power of the voice and the sonic dimension of the tape. They cover a wide emotional range. The drums also have a ritualistic framing function bringing order to human utterances.