Excellence in Music and Worship
Original Musical Compositions and Thoughts on Worship
String Quartet #4 is written in four movements. Throughout the work, I utilize the octatonic scale, highlighting its features in a pseudo-jazz framework. The first and fourth movements are thematically related. The second movement is lyrical, and the third movement was written to be a sort of scherzo.
The third movement was premiered at the Seal Bay Music Festival in Maine
This work extends the story of a cowboy’s journey to rustle his cattle in the midst of a West Texas thunderstorm.
The original work, Débandade, for string quartet, was written to commemorate the transfer of the Tom Lea painting, ‘Stampede’ to the Ellen Noel Art Museum in Odessa, Texas.
The piece was extended to include two more movements, written for triple string quartet and string orchestra, depicting the cowboy’s long walk home and fiddle dance as he shares his story with his friends and family that evening around the campfire.
I. Débandade
II. Périple
III. Danse
This is an arrangement, or, as I like to call an essay, using the theme of this famous hymn.
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This is an arrangement, or, as I like to call it, an essay, using the theme of the famous hymn to create this short composition.
(Click here to purchase the string quartet score, string orchestra score, or MP3.)
String Quartet #2
I wrote this when I was about eighteen years old, while still living in New York City, working on my Bachelor’s degree from Juilliard. The many string quartet performances I had attended in the New York area, as well as at Meadowmount Summer Music camp, put a desire in me to stretch forth and write for the medium.
I was elated to have it recorded a couple years later by the Thouvenel String Quartet. In 1985, it was choreographed by Anthony Ferro, named “Novella Blanc.”
This work was written for and premiered by the Lindsayan String Quartet in 2001. The work consists of five short movements, thematically united. Since the movements were shorter and concise, I sub-titled the work ‘Vignettes.’
Hope you enjoy!
I enjoyed singing this hymn growing up in church. I hope you like this new string quartet arrangement.