UPCOMING SPRING 2009 DEBORAH BUCK PERFORMS AT BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART Sunday, April 19, 2009, at 2 PM. Deborah Buck, concertmaster of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, will perform my solo violin piece "hoc est corpus meum" in a concert entitled SHADES OF BLUE as part of the Brooklyn Philharmonic's "Music Off The Walls" (MOTW) series. Deborah Buck gives a rare and intimate recital appearance inspired by artist Hernan Bas, a man determined to fulfill his dreams before his time runs out. For more information: www.madbutcherfilms.com/legacy/index1.php#MOTW NEW PIECES I'm working on two new pieces: a solo piano piece and a quarter-tone piece for flute, violin, cello, trombone and narrator set to a poem by Gregory L. Ford. The poem is entitled "After Patmos" and depicts the inner thoughts of St. John (of Revelations) when exiled on the island of Patmos. Quarter-tone music is music that divides the octave into 24 equal divisions instead of the usual 12 equal divisions (as the 12 notes in an octave on the piano). I first experimented with writing quarter-tone music in a flute piece entitled Zephyr written for Christine Perea which was premiered at a concert of microtonal music at Roulette last fall. (See below for more information about microtonal music.) What is microtonal music? A simple definition is music that uses pitches outside the 12 equal-note division of the octave found on the piano. Or, as Charles Ives said, music that “uses the notes between the cracks” of the piano. The microtonal composer's aural palette is the full spectrum of sound — an infinite amount of pitches and intervals. IF YOU'RE NOT FAMILIAR WITH MICROTONAL MUSIC Click on one of the links below for a YouTube microtonal experience. Johnny Reinhard - Zelig Mood Ring www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MoRojVZZDk Joel Mandelbaum - Woodwind Quintet #2 mvmt 1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYv7TB3BYUU&mode=related&search John Eaton ’Äì Trio in X www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVlZBGcjC00 Or click here for some Microtonal Listening Pages. Art of the States' Microtonal Page (Varied Micro mp3s) www.artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/genresearch.pl?genre=microtonal Kyle Gann's Page (Several Good Accessible Examples of Micro Music) www.kylegann.com/Gannaudio.html Andrew's Microtonal Reading List (Misc Micro links and sound files) www.angelfire.com/music2/aah/microtonal/list.html Please return to the website for regular updates. © 2005 - 2007 Julie Harting