The Kronos Suite

By Everett -





Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Two Sestina Pomes

By Everett -
Image
Purchase Sheet Music Order #:EMCB0004 Score Alone $5.00 USD Score with Parts $40.00 USD Recording Information This recording of Two Sestina Poems was made by the Sam Barlow Symphonic Band of 2012, on May 17, 2012. Composition Background In French Poetry the Sestina is the most advanced form of poetry, and in music the Sonata is the most advanced form a movement can be written in. I thought it was fitting that a sonata was written about two sestina poems. The primary subject is about a sad and depressing poem called I Have Become the World , and the secondary subject is about a happy, joyous poem called The Power of Love . Both poems aren't famous, and can't be found publicly. I Have Become the World Pain is a necessity in life. It makes emotion more bearable and prolongs the bitter yet comforting end. Even more than the end itself, the world is cold. And where it is coldest there exists only death. Some think of it as a tragedy when death in realit...
Read more

Musical Biography

By Everett -
Every composer has a story of how they began composing. Mine is a very ironic one. After searching the CD shelf, in fourth, grade for classical music, and finding none, I began to right this wrong I thought existed. Was there classical music on the shelf? Probably. But can you really see a little fourth grader truly being able to successfully search the shelf of two hundred albums and find what he's looking for? Probably not. My parents tell me I started making up songs on the piano as soon as I was able to sit at the piano bench and reach the keys. The first time I remember composing a melody however, was in second grade. I was trying to convince my parents that vegetables were inferior to carbohydrates. I sat down at the piano, and seeing Aura Lee sitting on the music stand, I played a d . Instead of playing the next note, g , I made up a song. The words were: Carbohydrates Carbohydrates Carbohydrates are the best-est are the best. Unfortunately, the so...
Read more