The Music of Elliott Goldkind » modern classical

Elliott Goldkind | CD Baby

elliott — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:00:49 +0000

Elliott Goldkind | CD Baby. Here’s the link to my music on CD Baby, including the new soundtrack to the documentary “Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner”

No Look Pass – 2011 Outfest

elliott — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:03:49 +0000

No Look Pass – 2011 Outfest. Great new documentary, directed by Melissa Johnson, scored by me.

Music now available at iTunes, CDBaby or Bandcamp!

elliott — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:13:16 +0000

If you’re interested in purchasing music (that’d be swell, lemme tell ya!) you can do so on iTunes, CDBaby or Bandcamp. Just a couple tunes at the moment but more coming soon.

Come hear the premiere of my “Silver Lake Nocturne” for violin and contrabass

elliott — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:00:19 +0000

Sonatasia premieres my new work, played by Wan-Chin Chang and Chris Hornung, 1/27/11 at Mandarin Fine Arts in Laguna Beach, CA. Sonatasia Events.

God’s Grandeur (for Tenor & Orchestra)

elliott — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:27:27 +0000

http://ornette.com/God%20s%20Grandeur-ORCH-9-5-10.pdf Here’s a pdf of my score of the setting of G.M. Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur” for Tenor & Orchestra.

Counterpoint, The Inscrutible Arnold Schoenberg, and His Mystifying Pierrot Lunaire

elliott — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:34:22 +0000

Counterpoint, The Inscrutible Arnold Schoenberg, and His Mystifying Pierrot Lunaire (or Why I’m Not Smart Enough to be a Theorist)

Counterpoint: the study of the art of voice leading with respect to motivic combination (and ultimately the study of the ‘contrapuntal forms’). Schoenberg, Harmonielehre.

To say that there are only two types of music theory would not only be rhetorically reductive in the extreme, but would also be an excellent example of falsehood. This issue of falsehood aside, let me at least make a categorical distinction,

The Classical Beat – Form and content

elliott — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:45:07 +0000

“There’s a widespread idea in the general culture that classical music is “smart,” and that it requires a certain amount of knowledge to appreciate. And yet the level on which it’s generally apprehended, as outlined above, is not particularly smart at all.” via The Classical Beat – Form and content. I actually don’t agree with [...]

“Was War” for String Quartet

elliott — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:15:26 +0000

Here‘s a recording of my “Was War” for string quartet. Pretentious or not, the title is both English and German (meaning “what was”). I wanted to upload it to this page or my reverbnation page but the file is too large for either/both. (Grr!) Oh well. The score of this piece is available here: http://www.ornette.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/Was-War-for-String-Quartet.pdf [...]

ReverbNation Tunewidget

elliott — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:32:03 +0000

No, this widget doesn’t have all my available tunes. That can be found here. But, for whatever it’s worth, here’s yet another way to click and hear a ditty or two.

Alan Gilbert takes over the New York Philharmonic : The New Yorker

elliott — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:48:24 +0000

Alan Gilbert takes over the New York Philharmonic : The New Yorker. This is an exciting development, and of course one that makes me wish I could spend more time in Avery Fisher, not to mention in NYC in general. It would be nice if the NYPhil could become a significant force in modern music [...]