I’ve just posted the score to a movement for string quartet, entitled “Was War.”
Check it out, print it, play it, enjoy it.
http://www.ornette.com/scores/was-war-for-string-quartet
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.
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 again.
Top 10 Composers Who Died Unnatural or Odd Deaths – Listverse.
I’ve uploaded the score to my composition, “Dead Man’s Money” for trumpet and trombone. It’s in pdf format on the “SCORES” page. Check it out, print it, perform it …
To all of you who have given me guff for the incredible lameness, total ugliness, absolute geocities-circa-1992 terribleness of my self-made website, I’ve finally begun the online renovation. More to come. Comments very welcome.
Click here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/71049369@N00/ More pix coming soon (mid-December)
I’m home now. I’ve been here for 2 days, more or less. I’m still a bit out of time, what with the 20-hour red-eye home, very very little sleep the next night, jetlag, fatigue, culture shock and a prevailing sadness to be away from a place that was so wonderful, that truly started [...]
4 days left. Time is just flying back. More fun, more adventures (I must write about Bar “El Chino” in Pompeya, adventures in Boedo, and more, but that will have to wait), but I just feel LA pulling me back to “reality.” Bittersweet, to say the least. I will relish the [...]
The other day I went to La Boca, a very interesting part of Buenos Aires (ok, it’s all interesting, granted). I’ll write more, but for now, I thought you might enjoy this: