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John Newman - Contemporary Composer: May 2014
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Friday, May 23, 2014. For a long time, now, I've had an idea for an opera. I even started planning and writing parts of it. A reading of a couple of bits of it taught me two things:. I like the direction this is going. I need to rewrite it. How do you explore all the aspects you want to without writing several operas? Series might be all the rage in movies and books these days, but I don't want to follow Wagner's example or writing a multi-part debacle like the Ring cycle. I'll be content to write ju...
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John Newman - Contemporary Composer: October 2012
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Monday, October 8, 2012. I miss composing. I really do. I've gone back to school and, between my day job, school, and family responsibilities, there’s not much time to make music. It sucks. This sounds like a research project to me. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). John Newman - Comtemporary Composer. John at Instant Encore. View my complete profile. Simple template. Template images by bopshops.
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John Newman - Contemporary Composer: Of Chants and Strings and Opportunities
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Thursday, August 25, 2011. Of Chants and Strings and Opportunities. I’m feeling very excited, and grateful, today. There have been a lot of composing opportunities that have come my way these last few months. Nothing that will be immediately profitable, I suspect, but I don’t know anyone who wakes up and says, "I’m going to compose music because the money is so good.". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). John Newman - Comtemporary Composer. John at Instant Encore. Music Video - Thanksgiving Partita.
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John Newman - Contemporary Composer: August 2011
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Thursday, August 25, 2011. Music Video - Thanksgiving Partita. A minimalist viola and cello duet. Writing this, I tried to capture that calm, together feeling we all hope for when family gets together, even if we rarely get it. I was blessed to get the performers I did. Both are regular players with the Utah Symphony. Of Chants and Strings and Opportunities. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). John Newman - Comtemporary Composer. John at Instant Encore. Music Video - Thanksgiving Partita. View my complete profile.
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John Newman - Contemporary Composer: Moving the Studio
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). John Newman - Comtemporary Composer. John at Instant Encore. What Kind of Musician Am I? View my complete profile. Simple template. Template images by bopshops.
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John Newman - Contemporary Composer: Music Video - The Penitent
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012. Music Video - The Penitent. Last year, the Salty Cricket Composers Collective (SC3) held a concert of organ music. We were talking to the Cathedral of the Madeline about hosting, but for some reason that fell through. We ended up holding it at my. The piece turned out to be more “in your face” than you might expect for a work on repentance, but true repentance can come with a great deal of soul searching, spiritually gut wrenching “in your face” momen...John at Instant Encore.
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John Newman - Contemporary Composer: June 2013
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013. Wednesday, June 19, 2013. What Kind of Musician Am I? This is not an easy decision for me. I grew up hearing early country and western music from my mom, who would sing older country and folk tunes that she learned from her father. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). John Newman - Comtemporary Composer. John at Instant Encore. What Kind of Musician Am I? View my complete profile. Simple template. Template images by bopshops.
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John Newman - Contemporary Composer: Writing an opera? Am I insane?
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Friday, May 23, 2014. For a long time, now, I've had an idea for an opera. I even started planning and writing parts of it. A reading of a couple of bits of it taught me two things:. I like the direction this is going. I need to rewrite it. How do you explore all the aspects you want to without writing several operas? Series might be all the rage in movies and books these days, but I don't want to follow Wagner's example or writing a multi-part debacle like the Ring cycle. I'll be content to write ju...
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John Newman - Contemporary Composer: June 2011
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Friday, June 17, 2011. Music Video - Ten Shin Go So. Based on a form from the martial art, Aiki Shintaido, Tenshingoso describes the 5 major steps of life, from our pre-mortal existence, through birth, creating our world, making our place in that world, and finally gathering up all we have created as an offering, giving it back to the universe before we die. This video was debuted at SC3. S 2010 Melange concert, in the Salt Lake Arts Center. Friday, June 10, 2011. Getting Ready for Salty Cricket 2011.
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