Archive for January, 2010

The Classical Beat – Form and content

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

“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

Monday, January 18th, 2010

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 [...]

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