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neue musik leben283 - Interview with Geoffrey Gordon - "Titus" with WDR Symphony Orchestracomposer
Geoffrey Gordon talks about his way of composing big orchestra pieces and the premiere of “Titus” with the WDR Symphony Orchestra on 27Th March in Cologne.
He also shares what inspires his work and how he plans his compositions.
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März 25-Februar 26
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2026-03-0342 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON: Prometheus (for bass clarinet and orchestra, after Kafka)This is the recording of the premiere of composer Geoffrey Gordon's bass clarinet concerto, Prometheus, featuring the Philharmonia Orchestra, from Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, with conductor Martyn Brabbins and soloist Laurent Ben Slimane, recorded 19 January 2019.
This work was co-commissioned by the Philharmonia, the Minnesota Orchestra and the Malmö Symphony Orchestra.
PROGRAM NOTE:
Prometheus is inspired by the short story by Franz Kafka, based on the Greek legend. That text is as follows:
There are four legends concerning Prometheus:
I. According to the first, he was clamped to a rock in the Caucasus for betraying the secrets of the g...
2025-12-1827 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON: ICE - aut inveniam viam aut faciamThis is the studio recording of Geoffrey Gordon's ICE - aut inveniam viam aut faciam, from Mythologies and Mad Songs, on the Orchid Classics label, recorded in Glasgow, featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Martyn Brabbins from 4 October 2022.
"....a massive meditation on Arctic exploration that places a very human sense of struggle in a powerfully evoked world of grinding ice sheets and thunderous menace."
-Richard Bratby
GRAMOPHONE
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"We had seen God in His splendours, heard the text that Nature renders.
We had reached the naked soul of man."
Ernest Shackleton, Explorer (1874-1922)
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2025-12-1517 min
Nerdery and MurderyEp 206 - Herschell Gordon Lewis and Vlado TaneskiSend us Fan MailWelcome to another week of Nerdery and Murdery. Hope you are enjoying the new music created by us. Step inside for another Nerdery topic where Zig talks all about Herschell Gordon Lewis. Then Geoffrey tells the story of an incredible piece of crap with the story of Vlado Taneksi. Stay frosty Nerds and Murds!Support the show
2025-07-2057 min
Writing the Coast: BC and Yukon Book Prizes PodcastSeason 6 Episode 26: Katherine Palmer Gordon, Geoffrey Morrison, and Jess Housty on StorytellingABOUT THIS EPISODE: In this episode, Katherine Palmer Gordon, Geoffrey Morrison, and Jess Housty share their thoughts and reflections about storytelling. Katherine Palmer Gordon is the author of This Place is Who We Are: Stories of Indigenous Leadership, Resilience, and Connection to Homelands, a finalist for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize. Geoffrey Morrison is the author of Falling Hour, a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Jess Housty is the author of Crushed Wild Mint, winner of both the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award. Visit BC and Yukon Book Prizes: bcyukonbookprizes.com/ To...
2024-11-2744 min
Writing the Coast: BC and Yukon Book Prizes PodcastSeason 6 Episode 26: Katherine Palmer Gordon, Geoffrey Morrison, and Jess Housty on StorytellingABOUT THIS EPISODE:
In this episode, Katherine Palmer Gordon, Geoffrey Morrison, and Jess Housty share their thoughts and reflections about storytelling. Katherine Palmer Gordon is the author of This Place is Who We Are: Stories of Indigenous Leadership, Resilience, and Connection to Homelands, a finalist for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize. Geoffrey Morrison is the author of Falling Hour, a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Jess Housty is the author of Crushed Wild Mint, winner of both the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award.
Visit BC and Yukon Book Prizes: bcyukonbookprizes.com/
To...
2024-11-2744 min
Geoffrey PorterRead online Whatever it Takes: The Real Story of Gordon Brown and New Labour By Steve Richards (Author) Full Episodehttps://yuandipro.firebaseapp.com/?GASS=0007320329 . Click This Link To Access Whatever it Takes: The Real Story of Gordon Brown and New Labour by Steve Richards (Author) Book Supports all formats, Such as: EPUB, PDF , AZW3, MOBI, IBA, & RTF Book Title: Whatever it Takes: The Real Story of Gordon Brown and New Labour Book Author: Steve Richards (Author) Book Rating: 9+ ratings Powered by Firstory Hosting
2024-10-1400 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON - Crucifixus for double choir and solo celloThis is the live performance of Geoffrey Gordon's Crucifixus for double choir and solo cello, from the Presteigne Festival, Wales, UK - featuring the Choir of Royal Holloway, conductor Rupert Gough and cellist Alice Neary, principal cello of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, within the confines of the 13th century Anglican Priory Church in Leominster, Herefordshire, England, 25 August 2024.
TEXT:
Crucifixus etiam pro nobis
sub Pontio Pilato,
passus et sepultus est.
Et resurrexit tertia die
secundum Scripturas.
Et ascendit in coelum:
sedet ad dexteram Patris.
Et iterum venturus est cum gloria,
judicare vivos et mortuos:
cujus regni non erit finis.
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2024-09-1110 min
Writing the Coast: BC and Yukon Book Prizes PodcastSeason 6 Episode 11: Geoffrey Morrison on how poetry led him to his debut novelABOUT THIS EPISODE: In this episode, host Megan Cole talks to Geoffrey Morrison. Geoffrey is the author of Falling Hour, which is a finalist for the 2024 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. In their conversation Geoffrey talks about how he taught himself to write a novel, and the authors that inspired him to write Falling Hour. Visit BC and Yukon Book Prizes: https://bcyukonbookprizes.com/ About Falling Hour: https://bcyukonbookprizes.com/project/falling-hour/ ABOUT GEOFFREY MORRISON: Geoffrey D. Morrison is the author of the poetry chapbook Blood-Brain Barrier (Frog Hollow Press, 2019) and co-author, with Matthew Tomkinson, of the experimental short fiction collection...
2024-08-1041 min
Writing the Coast: BC and Yukon Book Prizes PodcastSeason 6 Episode 11: Geoffrey Morrison on how poetry led him to his debut novelABOUT THIS EPISODE:
In this episode, host Megan Cole talks to Geoffrey Morrison. Geoffrey is the author of Falling Hour, which is a finalist for the 2024 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. In their conversation Geoffrey talks about how he taught himself to write a novel, and the authors that inspired him to write Falling Hour.
Visit BC and Yukon Book Prizes: https://bcyukonbookprizes.com/
About Falling Hour: https://bcyukonbookprizes.com/project/falling-hour/
ABOUT GEOFFREY MORRISON:
Geoffrey D. Morrison is the author of the poetry chapbook Blood-Brain Barrier (Frog Hollow Press, 2019) and co-author, with Matthew Tomkinson, of the experimental short fiction collection...
2024-08-1041 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON - Fumée For Bb Clarinet And Chamber OrchestraThis is the Asian premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's Fumée for Bb clarinet and chamber orchestra, with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, conductor Christoph Poppen and soloist Horácio Ferreira, from HK City Hall Concert Hall, Hong Kong, 29 June 2024.
PROGRAM NOTE:
Immersed in the magical cultural milieu of Belle Époque Paris at the end of the 19th century, the precocious talent of young composer Reynaldo Hahn (August 9, 1874 – January 28, 1947) emerged, and from an early age, Hahn astounded and delighted his audiences with settings of some of the most beautiful and enduring poems of contemporary writers, including Hugo, Verlaine, Mallarmé. It is said that V...
2024-07-2311 min
The Boomer BarIn it to Win It: Geoffrey Carr’s Criminal Defense PhilosophyGeoffrey Carr is a criminal defense attorney who graduated from UC Law San Francisco. One of his first mentors was attorney Gordon Rockhill who taught him that it’s not enough to leave trials with a hung jury: you have to win. Geoffrey has turned that philosophy into a very successful law career, and now shares his advice with his many mentees.
In this episode, Geoffrey talks to host Deborah Kemper about the theatrical nature of trials, and why you should treat every private defender client like they retained you. Plus, he offers some great advice for tho...
2024-07-0431 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerExposure for solo violinThis is a the premiere performance of Exposure for solo violin, by composer Geoffrey Gordon, featuring soloist Elisabeth Kufferath for whom the work was commissioned by the Freundeskreises Hauskonzert Musik für heute e.V.,as part of Musik 21 Lower Saxony. The premiere performance took place at the Calder Saal at the Sprengel Art Museum, Hannover, Germany – 14 November 2021.
PROGRAM NOTE:
Inspired by the TRUE PICTURES art installation, comprised of contemporary North American Photography of the 21st century at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover Germany, Exposure for solo violin responds, sonically, to the powerful artistic visual language of this medium. The con...
2024-06-2411 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerVII. Death Be Not Proud, Though Some Have Called TheeThis is the world premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, At the round earths imagin'd corners, for baritone and piano, after the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, commissioned for and premiered as part of the Oxford International Song Festival, with baritone Julien Van Mellaerts and pianist Alisdair Hogarth - Holywell Music Room, Oxford, England... 7:45pm 27 October 2023.
2024-06-1106 minGeoffrey Gordon ComposerVI. Oh My Blacke Soule! Now Thou Art SummonedThis is the world premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, At the round earths imagin'd corners, for baritone and piano, after the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, commissioned for and premiered as part of the Oxford International Song Festival, with baritone Julien Van Mellaerts and pianist Alisdair Hogarth - Holywell Music Room, Oxford, England... 7:45pm 27 October 2023.
2024-06-1104 minGeoffrey Gordon ComposerV. This Is My Playes Last Scene, Here Heavens AppointThis is the world premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, At the round earths imagin'd corners, for baritone and piano, after the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, commissioned for and premiered as part of the Oxford International Song Festival, with baritone Julien Van Mellaerts and pianist Alisdair Hogarth - Holywell Music Room, Oxford, England... 7:45pm 27 October 2023.
2024-06-1104 minGeoffrey Gordon ComposerIII. What If This Present Were The Worlds Last NightThis is the world premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, At the round earths imagin'd corners, for baritone and piano, after the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, commissioned for and premiered as part of the Oxford International Song Festival, with baritone Julien Van Mellaerts and pianist Alisdair Hogarth - Holywell Music Room, Oxford, England... 7:45pm 27 October 2023.
2024-06-1103 minGeoffrey Gordon ComposerII. THOU Hast Made Me, And Shall Thy Worke DecayThis is the world premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, At the round earths imagin'd corners, for baritone and piano, after the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, commissioned for and premiered as part of the Oxford International Song Festival, with baritone Julien Van Mellaerts and pianist Alisdair Hogarth - Holywell Music Room, Oxford, England... 7:45pm 27 October 2023.
2024-06-1105 min
Adult Music“Mediterranean Odyssey”In this episode, we discuss recordings of “Robert de Visée: Theorbo Solos” (BIS) by Jakob Lindberg, “Flute Concertos By Ibert, Jolivet & Rodrigo” (Resonus Classics) by Sami Junnonen & The Helsinki Chamber Orchestra / James S. Kahane, “Geoffrey Gordon: Mythologies and Mad Songs” (Orchid Classics) by Dimitri Mestdag, Laurent Ben Slimane & The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, The Philharmonia Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins, “Dedicated to Bob Berg” (GleAM Records) by Gianfranco Menzella, “Long Distance” (Trebim Music) by Sylvain Beuf, and “Odisseya” (Bird Box Records) by Cristiano Giardini.
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2024-06-102h 33
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON - PUCK - fleeing from the dawnThis is the studio recording of composer Geoffrey Gordon's orchestral work, PUCK - fleeing from the dawn, from the new Orchid Classics CD, Mythologies and Mad Songs - featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Martyn Brabbins. This work is inspired by the painting of the same name by Scottish artist, David Scott (1837). The recording was made in Glasgow, 3-4 October 2022, with producer Alex Van Ingen.
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In the last scene of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the magical fairy Puck comes into the palace of Theseus after all the mortals have retired for the night.
He says,
And we fairies...
2024-05-0106 minGeoffrey Gordon ComposerIV. Batter My Heart, Three Person'd GodThis is the world premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, At the round earths imagin'd corners, for baritone and piano, after the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, commissioned for and premiered as part of the Oxford International Song Festival, with baritone Julien Van Mellaerts and pianist Alisdair Hogarth - Holywell Music Room, Oxford, England... 7:45pm 27 October 2023.
2023-12-0102 minGeoffrey Gordon ComposerI. At The Round Earths Imagin'd CornersThis is the world premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, At the round earths imagin'd corners, for baritone and piano, after the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, commissioned for and premiered as part of the Oxford International Song Festival, with baritone Julien Van Mellaerts and pianist Alisdair Hogarth - Holywell Music Room, Oxford, England... 7:45pm 27 October 2023.
2023-12-0103 min
So Funny it HurtsGeoffrey Asmus Breaks the Ice
Picture this: A stand-up comedian named Geoffrey Asmus, a man named after a bicyclist, steps into the world of comedy to conquer his insecurities. We take an emotional rollercoaster ride together, sharing laughs as we explore his peculiar naming story, the challenges of growing up in the Midwest and his uncanny ability to break the ice even in the most freezing of Minnesotan winters.
From recounting his hilarious escapades in Vegas, talking about the power of laughter as a healing tool, to discussing the darker side of comedy, we cover it all. Geoffrey and I peel away the layers...
2023-11-161h 07
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON - Creavit Deus Hominem I. Still Life (excerpt)This is an excerpt of the first movement of Geoffrey Gordon's Creavit Deus Hominem, for oboe and orchestra, from the world premiere performance by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Duncan Ward and soloist José Luis García Vegara, for whom the orchestra commissioned the new work, which is inspired by the Synchromism art movement of the early 20th c.
Performance: Hr-Sendesaal, Frankfurt, Germany...2 June 2023.
2023-09-2001 min
The Authority Builder PodcastGeoffrey Kent | The 5-part Formula for Business SuccessThe failure rate for small businesses is high—but it doesn’t have to be. My guest Geoffrey Kent believes the formula for success is out there…and in this episode, we’ll explore the 5 pillars of successful entrepreneurship. Geoffrey is a wealth of wisdom: a serial entrepreneur who has launched, scaled, and exited 20+ businesses in the last five decades. Now, he mentors entrepreneurs through the same process. In this episode, he’ll share the key lessons he’s learned over the years about running a business. He’...
2023-08-1045 min
Management MuseEP24 Strong Families: Superguru Larry Allman Blows up the Wall between Work and HomeOn this episode of Management Muse we talk to the extraordinary family therapist Larry Allman. Since no one can fully separate home from work, it’s important for managers to know strategies for building strong families.
Home problems create work issues and vice versa, so it’s prudent to think through pitfalls and obstacles to building resilient, thriving families. Master mentor Larry Allman helps us maintain families that last.
Episode Highlights:
• Larry proposes that organizations are not only hiring the individual but should provide something for the family so they feel nurtured by the instit...
2023-06-0637 min
Kiwi Talkz#148 - Geoffrey Day Interview (Atomic Heart, Viscerafest, DOOM, AI, Leadership, Mick Gordon etc.)Geoffrey Day is a video game composer that has become a youtube sensation for his DOOM/Argent Metal remixes of game music. He recently composed for Atomic Heart and Viscerafest. SOCIAL MEDIA TWITTER-@geoffplaysguit INSTAGRAM - @geoffreydaymusic YOUTUBE - @GeoffPlaysGuitar Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/geoffplaysguitar #atomicheart #viscerafest #doometernalTIMESTAMPS00:00 - Intro00:45 - Geoffrey Initially Thought Mundfish Contacting Him Was Spam02:37 - Geoffrey Gets Spam Collaboration Emails Everyday04:10 - Pitch From Mundfish For Atomic Heart
2023-03-131h 13
Real Finds Podcast: Commercial Real Estate UnfilteredBryan McLaren: Navigating Cannabis Commercial Real Estate - Real Finds Podcast #8Welcome to "The Real Finds Podcast", hosted by Gordon Lamphere, Director of Sales & Leasing at Van Vlissingen and Co., Chicagoland's trusted boutique commercial real estate brokerage. In this episode, we are joined by Bryan McLaren, the Chairman and CEO of Zoned Properties, Inc. - a leading real estate development firm for emerging and highly regulated industries, including regulated cannabis.In this fascinating discussion, Gordon and Bryan explore various topics related to the commercial cannabis real estate industry. They delve into the challenges and opportunities of getting involved in cannabis commercial real estate, discuss the diverse real estate...
2023-03-0853 min
Auscast InspirationFatal 5 - The Story of Byron GordonThis episode was released in January 2023 to coincide with the Tour Down Under event and an increase in cyclists using our roads during the warmer months. Byron Gordon was the first life lost on South Australian roads of 1 January 2021. He was cycling with good mate, Geoffrey Doe, along Seaview Road, Henley Beach. It was then that a vehicle crossed onto the incorrect side of the road, narrowly missing Geoff and stuck Byron. Geoff and witnesses immediately commenced CPR on Byron but despite their efforts, Byron died at the crash scene. Bryon was a GP at the K...
2023-01-0919 minAuscast True CrimeFatal 5 - The Story of Byron GordonThis episode was released in January 2023 to coincide with the Tour Down Under event and an increase in cyclists using our roads during the warmer months. Byron Gordon was the first life lost on South Australian roads of 1 January 2021. He was cycling with good mate, Geoffrey Doe, along Seaview Road, Henley Beach. It was then that a vehicle crossed onto the incorrect side of the road, narrowly missing Geoff and stuck Byron. Geoff and witnesses immediately commenced CPR on Byron but despite their efforts, Byron died at the crash scene. Bryon was a GP at the K...
2023-01-0919 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON: La terre est bleue comme une orange No. 1 (for one string quartet)This is the live premiere performance of Geoffrey Gordon's la terre est bleue comme une orange No. 1 (the earth is blue like an orange) - a work for string quartet inspired by French surrealist poet Paul Eluard's iconic poem.
This work was commissioned by the San Francisco-based Friction Quartet and the premieres took place on 23 and 24 September 2022 at Noe Valley Ministry and Ruth Bancroft Garden in San Francisco.
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The earth Is blue like an orange
No error the words do not lie
They no longer allow you to sing
In the tower of kisses agreement
The madness the love
She...
2022-10-2910 min
The Successful Screenwriter with Geoffrey D Calhoun: Screenwriting PodcastEp 135 - Why You Need an Entertainment Lawyer with Gordon P. FiremarkGeoffrey and entertainment lawyer Gordon P. Firemark discuss screenwriting contracts and how to avoid being taken advantage of as an indie screenwriter.You can find more from Gordon at https://firemark.com/The Guide For Every Screenwriter is available at:https://www.thesuccessfulscreenwriter.com/booksScript Evaluation --> https://www.wefixyourscript.com/Don't forget to visit our website for all your screenwriting needs at --> https://www.thesuccessfulscreenwriter.com/podcast🎬 Get Free Script Leads — be the first to know which producers are requesting scripts and accepting submissions.I...
2022-06-1324 min
The Successful Screenwriter with Geoffrey D Calhoun: Screenwriting PodcastEp 135 - Why You Need an Entertainment Lawyer with Gordon P. FiremarkGeoffrey and entertainment lawyer Gordon P. Firemark discuss screenwriting contracts and how to avoid being taken advantage of as an indie screenwriter.You can find more from Gordon at https://firemark.com/The Guide For Every Screenwriter is available at:https://www.thesuccessfulscreenwriter.com/booksScript Evaluation --> https://www.wefixyourscript.com/Don't forget to visit our website for all your screenwriting needs at --> https://www.thesuccessfulscreenwriter.com/podcast
2022-06-1324 min
The Successful Screenwriter with Geoffrey D Calhoun: Screenwriting PodcastEp 135 - Why You Need an Entertainment Lawyer with Gordon P. FiremarkGeoffrey and entertainment lawyer Gordon P. Firemark discuss screenwriting contracts and how to avoid being taken advantage of as an indie screenwriter.You can find more from Gordon at https://firemark.com/The Guide For Every Screenwriter is available at:https://www.thesuccessfulscreenwriter.com/booksScript Evaluation --> https://www.wefixyourscript.com/Don't forget to visit our website for all your screenwriting needs at --> https://www.thesuccessfulscreenwriter.com/podcast
2022-06-1324 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON - Quintettsatz (for Bb clarinet and string quartet)This is a performance of Geoffrey Gordon's Quintettsatz (drawn from his QUINTET for clarinet and strings) given by Ensemble De Sono Futura, Turin, Italy - 8 March 2017.
2022-05-0610 min
Mister Kindness PodcastRoger Field - Rogue MaleJoining us is soldier, lawyer, writer and literary agent Roger Field. This episode is more or less a book report about 'Rogue Male: Sabotage and seduction behind German lines with Geoffrey Gordon-Creed DSO, MC' which Roger wrote using the man's memoirs. Definitely one of the best books I've read so was a great pleasure to talk to Roger about it. Geoffrey Gordon-Creed joined the Army straight from school in 1939 and saw action in North Africa (he won the Military Cross on his first day in battle). From there on to Greece to scupper the Germans' plans as a member...
2022-03-241h 11
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON - He Saith Among the Trumpets (two trumpet version)This is the world premiere performance of the two trumpet version of Geoffrey Gordon's He Saith Among the Trumpets, with Paul Merkelo, solo trumpet, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and Stéphane Beaulac, principal trumpet, Orchestre Métropolitain - with percussionist Josh Wynnyk - recorded at Maison Symphonique, Montréal Quebec, 22 April 2021.
This work, originally for solo trumpet in C, was commissioned on behalf of soloist Simon Höfele, who gave the premiere performance at Wigmore Hall, London, England – 22 September 2020.
"He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha;
and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains,
and the sho...
2021-12-0310 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON - Vermilion (for tenor trombone and piano)This is a studio recording of composer Geoffrey Gordon's new work for tenor trombone and piano, Vermilion, after the painting by Henri Matisse, with soloist Yu Tamaki Hoso and pianist Kosuke Akimoto, recorded in Tokyo, 28 August 2021.
PROGRAM NOTES:
"I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish" said renowned French artist, Henri Matisse (1869-1954), whose predilection for exploring and using color and composition in unique and vibrant ways fills his paintings with bold imagery often associated with the Fauvist Art movement. The thoughts of the painter Paul Gauguin were known to Matisse: writing about art and color, Gauguin said “How do yo...
2021-09-0113 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON - Jeux de Création for solo harpThis is a live recording of composer Geoffrey Gordon's work for solo harp, Jeux de Création, commissioned for Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra principal harp, Anne-Sophie Bertrand. The studio recording of this work will be released on the Naxos label (the CD will also be called Jeux de Création) in October 2021.
PROGRAM NOTES:
Jeux de Création, for solo harp, takes inspiration from the aesthetic sound world of the 1920’s, as seen through the lens of the composer’s own contemporary classical language. Thematic material drawn from two landmark works of the era - Claude Debussy’s Jeux and Darius Mi...
2021-08-2107 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON - Winterleben V. Wintersonne (European premiere)Horn soloist Tommi Hyytinen (Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra), mezzo soprano Niina Keitel and pianist Marko Hilpo give the European premiere of composer Geoffrey Gordon's chamber vocal work, Winterleben, at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland - Monday, 7 June 2021 . Winterleben is a song cycle setting five texts, in German, by Mahler's favorite poet, Friedrich Rückert, for mezzo, horn and piano. This work was originally commissioned by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting, and first premiered in Zipper Hall,Los Angeles, on 7 August 2015.
2021-06-1605 minGeoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON - Winterleben II. Winter-Lerchenton (European premiere)Horn soloist Tommi Hyytinen (Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra), mezzo soprano Niina Keitel and pianist Marko Hilpo give the European premiere of composer Geoffrey Gordon's chamber vocal work, Winterleben, at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland - Monday, 7 June 2021 . Winterleben is a song cycle setting five texts, in German, by Mahler's favorite poet, Friedrich Rückert, for mezzo, horn and piano. This work was originally commissioned by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting, and first premiered in Zipper Hall,Los Angeles, on 7 August 2015.
2021-06-1604 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON - Roman Rituals for solo hornGORDON: Roman Rituals for solo horn
Saar Berger, horn - Ensemble Modern
PROGRAM NOTES:
The flame is a reminder of Pentecost when witnesses were unified by the power of the Holy Spirit and saw "tongues, as of fire" (Acts 2:3).
Pentecost comes from a Jewish harvest festival called Shavuot. The apostles were celebrating this festival when the Holy Spirit descended on them. It sounded like a very strong wind, and it looked like tongues of fire. The apostles then found themselves speaking in foreign languages, inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Pentecost is the Greek name for Shavuot, the spring harvest festival of the...
2020-12-1706 min
Fantastical Truth39. How Might Bram Stoker’s Novel ‘Dracula’ Cast Light Against Modern Vampires? | with Geoffrey Reiter“Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will! … Welcome to my house! Enter freely. Go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring. … I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome …”
He’s no cartoon. He’s no misunderstood monster. Instead, the infamous Count Dracula is a hideous perversion of humanity. This parasitic undead being preys spiritually and physically on the innocent, and must be destroyed. Join us as we explore Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula and its incredible reflections of good heroes who use common and sacred weapons to hunt and to slay this inc...
2020-10-271h 27
FlyingTalkers By Geoffrey ArendCNS Departures Mean Industry Will Suffer / Kicking Cans With Envirotainer /Freeze Dry Vaccines Next ?CNS Departures Mean Industry Will Suffer
"Now we are witnessing some of the best leadership in our industry departing
when this is the time they are needed the most,",former CNS President Warren Jones
told Flying Talkers.
"With the recent post of Mike White leaving CNS
and some other great individuals at
IATA like Gordon Wright, our industry, while resilient, will suffer."
Kicking The Cans
By now unless you have been living on the moon or accidentally got locked up the a cool box...
2020-10-2631 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON - Ewelme 1475This is a live recording of Geoffrey Gordon's new work for piano trio, Ewelme 1475 ... a work responding to the plague of 1471-1475. Below is the program note from the score:
"According to the chronicle of the grey friars at King's Lynn, the plague arrived by ship from Gascony to Melcombe in Dorset– today normally referred to as Weymouth – shortly before the Feast of St. John The Baptist on 24 June 1348…..The Black Death was the first occurrence of the Second Pandemic, which continued to strike England and the rest of Europe more or less regularly until the 18th century. An outbreak which...
2020-08-0207 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON - Aphrodite And Eros (fighting off the advances of Pan)This is the world premiere performance of Geoffrey Gordon's Aphrodite and Eros (fighting off the advances of Pan), for violin and cello, with violinist Yuri Revich and cellist Benedict Klöckner, from the International Music Festival Koblenz 2020 (IMUKO).
This work is inspired by a sculpture dating from ca. 100 BC, from Delos, now housed in the Exhibition Room of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece.
Notes from the museum curator:
The naked goddess of beauty and love is rendered frontally with hair well-combed and tied up by means of a scarf bound in a bow above her parting. The manner i...
2020-07-2305 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON - Peter Quince At The Clavier (excerpt)This is an excerpt of the world premiere performance of Geoffrey Gordon's Peter Quince at the Clavier, for baritone and piano - a setting of the Wallace Stevens poem - from the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna - 16 March 2018. Baritone Tobias Greenhalgh and pianist Marcin Koziel perform.
PETER QUINCE AT THE CLAVIER
Wallace Stevens
I.
Just as my fingers on these keys
Make music, so the selfsame sounds
On my spirit make a music, too.
Music is feeling, then, not sound;
And thus it is that what I feel,
Here in this room, desiring you,
Thinking of your blue-shadowed silk,
...
2020-07-0403 min
iLead in Any Room PodcastEP7: Dr. Wanda Frazier-Parker: Glass Ceiling in the KingdomDr. Dudley and Dr Frazier discuss the glass for women in the kingdom (Christian Community). Wanda Frazier-Parker is a trusted and influential voice in ministry and leadership. A graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary’s Doctor of Ministry program with an Effective Ministry to Women emphasis, Dr. Parker organized Synergy Summit, a regional gathering designed for female executives and ministry leaders to collaborate and share successful, career advancement strategies. Professionally, Dr. Parker serves as a leadership trainer for Kellogg Company. A certified John Maxwell coach, trainer, and speaker, Dr. Parker is also the author of 40 Day Health & Wellness Journa...
2020-06-2246 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON - Bagatelle after BeethovenThis is the premiere (live) recording of Geoffrey Gordon's Bagatelle after Beethoven, a solo piano work commissioned for the International Beethoven Project’s Beethoven Festival: REVOLUTION 2012 and performed by pianist James Giles, 16 September 2012, at the National Pastime Theater, Chicago.
2020-06-0301 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON - Prometheus 2nd MovementThis is the second movement of the premiere performance of composer Geoffrey Gordon's bass clarinet concerto, Prometheus, featuring the Philharmonia Orchestra, from Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, with soloist Laurent Ben Slimane and guest conductor, Martyn Brabbins, 19 January 2019.
PROGRAM NOTE:
Prometheus is inspired by the short story by Franz Kafka, based on the Greek legend. That text is as follows:
There are four legends concerning Prometheus:
I. According to the first, he was clamped to a rock in the Caucasus for betraying the secrets of the gods to men, and the gods sent eagles to feed on his liver...
2019-11-0204 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON - Prometheus 1st MovementThis is an excerpt from the first movement of the premiere performance of composer Geoffrey Gordon's bass clarinet concerto, Prometheus, featuring the Philharmonia Orchestra, from Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, with soloist Laurent Ben Slimane and guest conductor, Martyn Brabbins, 19 January 2019.
PROGRAM NOTE:
Prometheus is inspired by the short story by Franz Kafka, based on the Greek legend. That text is as follows:
There are four legends concerning Prometheus:
I. According to the first, he was clamped to a rock in the Caucasus for betraying the secrets of the gods to men, and the gods sent eagles to feed...
2019-08-1006 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON - Ode to a Nightingale (studio)This is the studio recording of composer Geoffrey Gordon's setting of the John Keats poem, Ode to a Nightingale, for mixed choir (SATB) and solo cello, featuring the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir and cello soloist Toke Moldrup. Recorded in Copenhagen and released on the BIS records label in April 2020:
https://bis.se/performers/moldrup-toke/cello-libris-works-by-geoffrey-gordon
From reviews of the studio recording of Ode to a Nightingale:
“…luminous and astringent by turns….. ecstatic.”
Richard Whitehouse
Gramophone
"… flashes of vocal writing which recall Britten at his best.”
Richard Hanlon
MusicWeb International
“ …sheer sonic gold - a gorgeous setting of the Keats poem.”
Colin Clarke
Fanfa...
2019-07-1923 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON - Cosmic Inflation and the End of the Dark AgesThis is the world premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's new chamber work, Cosmic Inflation and the End of the Dark Ages - commissioned by the Institut Curie, as part of the Muse-IC project - from the performance in Paris, at the Salle Cortot concert hall, on 12 March 2019, featuring an ensemble drawn from the musicians of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, conducted by Marc Desmons. Cosmic Inflation and the End of the Dark Ages, scored for bass clarinet (doubling Bb clarinet), string quartet, piano and harp, is inspired by the research of astrophysicist Herve Dole into the first vibrations of the...
2019-07-1712 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerFATHOMS: Prelude and StormThis is the studio recording of Geoffrey Gordon's FATHOMS, Five Impressions of Shakespeare's The Tempest (with Prelude), for cello and piano, featuring cellist Toke Moldrup and pianist Steven Beck, which premiered at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York City, 17 December 2015.
"The engaging and colorful 'Fathoms' links to the past with unabashedly programmatic, extroverted storytelling. Using a range of extended techniques and unusual textures, Mr. Gordon vividly sketches characters and scenes from 'The Tempest.' Caliban’s gruffness, Ariel’s quicksilver curiosity, the glowing romance between Ferdinand and Miranda all came alive in Mr. Moldrup and Mr. Beck’s intense playin...
2019-06-2806 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerFATHOMS II: Ariel And All His QualityThis is the studio recording of Geoffrey Gordon's FATHOMS, Five Impressions of Shakespeare's The Tempest (with Prelude), for cello and piano, featuring cellist Toke Moldrup and pianist Steven Beck, which premiered at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York City, 17 December 2015.
"The engaging and colorful 'Fathoms' links to the past with unabashedly programmatic, extroverted storytelling. Using a range of extended techniques and unusual textures, Mr. Gordon vividly sketches characters and scenes from 'The Tempest.' Caliban’s gruffness, Ariel’s quicksilver curiosity, the glowing romance between Ferdinand and Miranda all came alive in Mr. Moldrup and Mr. Beck’s intense playin...
2019-06-2805 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerFATHOMS I: Ferdinanda and MirandaThis is the studio recording of Geoffrey Gordon's FATHOMS, Five Impressions of Shakespeare's The Tempest (with Prelude), for cello and piano, featuring cellist Toke Moldrup and pianist Steven Beck, which premiered at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York City, 17 December 2015.
"The engaging and colorful 'Fathoms' links to the past with unabashedly programmatic, extroverted storytelling. Using a range of extended techniques and unusual textures, Mr. Gordon vividly sketches characters and scenes from 'The Tempest.' Caliban’s gruffness, Ariel’s quicksilver curiosity, the glowing romance between Ferdinand and Miranda all came alive in Mr. Moldrup and Mr. Beck’s intense playin...
2019-06-2805 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerFATHOMS IV: The Isle Is Full of NoisesThis is the studio recording of Geoffrey Gordon's FATHOMS, Five Impressions of Shakespeare's The Tempest (with Prelude), for cello and piano, featuring cellist Toke Moldrup and pianist Steven Beck, which premiered at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York City, 17 December 2015.
"The engaging and colorful 'Fathoms' links to the past with unabashedly programmatic, extroverted storytelling. Using a range of extended techniques and unusual textures, Mr. Gordon vividly sketches characters and scenes from 'The Tempest.' Caliban’s gruffness, Ariel’s quicksilver curiosity, the glowing romance between Ferdinand and Miranda all came alive in Mr. Moldrup and Mr. Beck’s intense playin...
2019-06-2805 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerFATHOMS III: Caliban (and Sycorax)This is the studio recording of Geoffrey Gordon's FATHOMS, Five Impressions of Shakespeare's The Tempest (with Prelude), for cello and piano, featuring cellist Toke Moldrup and pianist Steven Beck, which premiered at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York City, 17 December 2015.
"The engaging and colorful 'Fathoms' links to the past with unabashedly programmatic, extroverted storytelling. Using a range of extended techniques and unusual textures, Mr. Gordon vividly sketches characters and scenes from 'The Tempest.' Caliban’s gruffness, Ariel’s quicksilver curiosity, the glowing romance between Ferdinand and Miranda all came alive in Mr. Moldrup and Mr. Beck’s intense playin...
2019-06-2804 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerFATHOMS V: Prospero Drowns His BookThis is the studio recording of Geoffrey Gordon's FATHOMS, Five Impressions of Shakespeare's The Tempest (with Prelude), for cello and piano, featuring cellist Toke Moldrup and pianist Steven Beck, which premiered at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York City, 17 December 2015.
"The engaging and colorful 'Fathoms' links to the past with unabashedly programmatic, extroverted storytelling. Using a range of extended techniques and unusual textures, Mr. Gordon vividly sketches characters and scenes from 'The Tempest.' Caliban’s gruffness, Ariel’s quicksilver curiosity, the glowing romance between Ferdinand and Miranda all came alive in Mr. Moldrup and Mr. Beck’s intense playin...
2019-06-2807 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON: La terre est bleue comme une orange - excerpt (for two string quartets)This is an excerpt from the premiere performance of Geoffrey Gordon's chamber work for two string quartets, after the Paul Éluard surrealist poem, La terre is bleue comme une orange, featuring the Wadi Ensemble. The work, commissioned as part of the Merz Prize in Music Composition, was installed at the Museo Archeologico Regionale “Antonino Salinas,” in Palermo, Sicily, on 19 May 2019. The piece is designed to be played either by two live string quartets, or a single quartet, playing against a recording of itself.....
TEXT:
La terre est bleue comme une orange
Jamais une erreur les mots ne mentent pas
Ils ne vo...
2019-05-2016 min
Grab the Top Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Arts & EntertainmentGeoffrey Giuliano In Conversation with Ruth and Angela McCartney, Volume 1 by Geoffrey GiulianoPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/383521 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Geoffrey Giuliano In Conversation with Ruth and Angela McCartney, Volume 1 Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 30 minutes Release date: May 19, 2019 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Episode 1: Angie's early life. A piano teacher at 14. The death of Ruth's dad. Meeting Jim McCartney's father. Secrets of the extended McCartney family. Angie and Ruth move into Rembrandt on November 17, 1964. Paul drives from London to meet his new family. First impressions of Beatle Paul. The 28 year age difference between Jim and Angie. Ruth spends time with her...
2019-05-1905 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON - Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (studio)This is the studio recording of composer Geoffrey Gordon's Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, after the Thomas Mann novel, Doktor Faustus, featuring cellist Toke Moldrup, conductor Lan Shui, and the Copenhagen Philharmonic (which commissioned the work in 2014).
2019-05-1324 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON - THORN (for violin, horn and piano)Horn soloist Ben Goldscheider premieres composer Geoffrey Gordon's new chamber work, THORN, at Conway Hall, London, in a performance from 3 February 2019. Callum Smart (violin) and Richard Uttley (piano), of the Ashwell Trio, are also featured.
This work is inspired, in part, by a relic said to be a thorn from Jesus's crown, kept at Stonyhurst College, in Clitheroe, Lancashire, for the last 200 years. The thorn, enshrined in a glass case, has Mary Queen of Scots' pearls entwined around it. The Crown of Thorns is said to have been seized from Constantinople, the imperial capital of the Roman Empire, in the...
2019-03-2415 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerSaint Blue (double concerto for trumpet, piano and strings after Kandinsky)This is the studio recording, on the Signum label, of Geoffrey Gordon's double concerto, Saint Blue, commissioned for the English String Orchestra and soloists Simon Desbruslais and Clare Hammond, through funds provided by Arts Council England. Inspired by the works of Russian visual artist and visionary, Wassily Kandinsky, Saint Blue (scored for trumpet, piano and strings) is divided into two contrasting sections, with the second essentially embedded in the first—a kind of sonic exploration of the sacred and profane—in a fairly straight-forward A-B-A design. The first section is a reaction to Kandinsky’s 1911 All Saints I (part of the St...
2019-03-0509 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON - Gotham News (for string orchestra)This is a live performance of Geoffrey Gordon's new work for string orchestra, Gotham News, after the painting of the same name by Dutch artist Willem de Kooning (1955), with the Radom Chamber Orchestra and conductor Szymon Morus, Krzysztof Penderecki Concert Hall, Radom, Poland - 29 November 2019.
Gotham News was commissioned by the Merz Foundation as part of the Mario Merz Prize in Music Composition awarded to Mr. Gordon in 2017, and was premiered in Sicily, with the WADI Ensemble and conductor Willy Merz, in a performance at the Chiesa di Santa Caterina, in Bellini Plaza, Palermo, Italy, on 13 October 2018.
2018-12-2713 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON: Interiors V. PostludeThis is a live performance of the Postlude from composer Geoffrey Gordon's Interiors of a Courtyard, for mandolin and guitar, featuring the Rosetta Contemporary Ensemble, one of Japan's premiere new music groups. Takaaki Shibata, mandolin and Kosuke Hashizume, guitar, are featured in a performance from 25 August, 2018, at the Gohki Endo Museum of Art, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.
Listen to the entire Interiors of a Courtyard, from a recording in Naples with Fabio Gallucci, mandolin & Antonio Pilato, guitar, here:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFB7AD9DEFDE41169
2018-12-2404 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON: Harmonie - an Jenny after Karl MarxBirmingham Contemporary Music Group gives the world premiere performance of Geoffrey Gordon's Harmonie - an Jenny, a setting of a text by Karl Marx, as part of the Wilde Lieder Marx.Music Project. Scored for soprano and solo cello, Harmonie is a setting of an early romantic text by the political thinker and theorist, dedicated to his love, Jenny, from Buch der Lieder 1836, featuring soprano Elizabeth Atherton and cellist Ulrich Heinen, given on 1st September 2018, in Marx's hometown of Trier, Germany. Recording courtesy of German Radio SWR2. A studio recording of this work is available on the Coviello label. http...
2018-10-1007 min
audiowrangler#AudioMo 2018 - Day 11 - Geoffrey WelchmanI thought I would finish of this week’s AudioMo’s with another interview from The Bletchley Park Podcast.
I’ve been producing the show for nearly 6 years now and during that time I’ve interviewed so many people. Lots of those interviews stand out for me especially the ones with Veterans, but this one has a very special place for me.
During WW2 Gordon Welchman was one of the most important members of staff at Bletchley Park working directly with Alan Turing to design The Bombe Machine but maybe more importantly for Geoffrey’s, he was his...
2018-06-1510 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerSonnets From Neruda VI. Ya eres míaThis is the sixth song from Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, Sonnets from Neruda, setting six sonnets from Cien sonetos de amor (100 Love Sonnets) for mezzo soprano, baritone and piano, in a performance at the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna, featuring mezzo soprano Natalia Kawalek, baritone Tobias Greenhalgh and pianist Marcin Koziel, 16 March 2018.
Soneto 81
Ya eres mía. Reposa con tu sueño en mi sueño.
Amor, dolor, trabajos, deben dormir ahora.
Gira la noche sobre sus invisibles ruedas
y junto a mí eres pura como el ámbar dormido.
Ninguna más, amor, dormirá con mis sueños.
Irás, iremos...
2018-04-1906 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerSonnets From Neruda IV. No te quiero sino porque te quieroThis is the fourth song from Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, Sonnets from Neruda, setting six sonnets from Cien sonetos de amor (100 Love Sonnets) for mezzo soprano, baritone and piano, in a performance at the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna, featuring mezzo soprano Natalia Kawalek and pianist Marcin Koziel, 16 March 2018.
Soneto 66
No te quiero sino porque te quiero
y de quererte a no quererte llego
y de esperarte cuando no te espero
pasa mi corazón del frío al fuego.
Te quiero sólo porque a ti te quiero,
te odio sin fin, y odiándote te ruego,
y la me...
2018-04-1904 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerSonnets From Neruda V. De noche, amada, amarra tu corazón al míoThis is the fifth song from Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, Sonnets from Neruda, setting six sonnets from Cien sonetos de amor (100 Love Sonnets) for mezzo soprano, baritone and piano, in a performance at the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna, featuring baritone Tobias Greenhalgh and pianist Marcin Koziel, 16 March 2018.
Soneto 79
De noche, amada, amarra tu corazón al mío
y que ellos en el sueño derroten las tinieblas
como un doble tambor combatiendo en el bosque
contra el espeso muro de las hojas mojadas.
Nocturna travesía, brasa negra del sueño
interceptando el hilo de las uvas terres...
2018-04-1406 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerSonnets From Neruda I. Amor, cuántos caminos hasta llegar a un besoThis is the first song from Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, Sonnets from Neruda, setting six sonnets from Cien sonetos de amor (100 Love Sonnets) for mezzo soprano, baritone and piano, in a performance at the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna, featuring mezzo soprano Natalia Kawalek and pianist Marcin Koziel, 16 March 2018.
Soneto 2
Amor, cuántos caminos hasta llegar a un beso,
qué soledad errante hasta tu compañía!
Siguen los trenes solos rodando con la lluvia.
En Taltal no amanece aún la primavera.
Pero tú y yo, amor mío, estamos juntos,
juntos desde la ropa a las raíces,
juntos de...
2018-04-1104 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerSonnets From Neruda III. Sabrás que no te amo y que te amoThis is the third song from Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, Sonnets from Neruda, setting six sonnets from Cien sonetos de amor (100 Love Sonnets) for mezzo soprano, baritone and piano, in a performance at the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna, featuring mezzo soprano Natalia Kawalek and pianist Marcin Koziel, 16 March 2018.
Soneto 44
Sabrás que no te amo y que te amo
puesto que de dos modos es la vida,
la palabra es un ala del silencio,
el fuego tiene una mitad de frío.
Yo te amo para comenzar a amarte,
para recomenzar el infinito
y para no dejar de ama...
2018-04-1104 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerSonnets From Neruda II. Tengo hambre de tu bocaThis is the second song from Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, Sonnets from Neruda, setting six sonnets from Cien sonetos de amor (100 Love Sonnets) for mezzo soprano, baritone and piano, in a performance at the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna, featuring baritone Tobias Greenhalgh and pianist Marcin Koziel, 16 March 2018.
Soneto 11
Tengo hambre de tu boca, de tu voz, de tu pelo
y por las calles voy sin nutrirme, callado,
no me sostiene el pan, el alba me desquicia,
busco el sonido líquido de tus pies en el día.
Estoy hambriento de tu risa resbalada,
de tus manos color de...
2018-04-1104 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerCHASE II. The Standing Nude Woman - Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra after GiacomettiThis is the second movement of CHASE, Geoffrey Gordon's concerto for trumpet and orchestra, after the works of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, commissioned by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, in a performance taken from the premiere, Gasteig Philharmonie Hall, Munich, Germany, 7 October 2017, featuring soloist Guido Segers and conductor James Gaffigan.
2017-11-0806 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerCHASE III. The Bust - Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra after GiacomettiThis is the third movement of CHASE, Geoffrey Gordon's concerto for trumpet and orchestra, after the works of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, commissioned by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, in a performance taken from the premiere, Gasteig Philharmonie Hall, Munich, Germany, 7 October 2017, featuring soloist Guido Segers and conductor James Gaffigan.
2017-11-0709 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerPUCK - fleeing from the dawnThis is a performance of composer Geoffrey Gordon's orchestral work, PUCK - fleeing from the dawn, inspired by the painting of the same name by Scottish artist, David Scott (1837). The performance features the Brno Philharmonic and conductor Mikel Toms (July 2017).
In the last scene of A Midsummer Night's Dream Puck, comes into the palace of Theseus after all the mortals have retired for the night. He says,
And we fairies, that do run
By the triple Hecate's team,
From the presence of the sun,
Following darkness like a dream,
Now are frolic.
Oberon, Titania and their band of fairies then...
2017-09-0506 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerCRUCIFIXUS for double choir (SATB/SATB) and solo celloThis is the world premiere performance of Geoffrey Gordon's CRUCIFIXUS for double choir (SATB/SATB) and solo cello, featuring the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir and cello soloist Toke Møldrup, given on 30 April 2017, Holmens Kirke, Copenhagen, Denmark.
The recording is courtesy of Danish Radio, available here: http://www.dr.dk/p2/p2-koncerten/p2-koncerten-2017-05-03
TEXT:
Crucifixus etiam pro nobis
sub Pontio Pilato,
passus et sepultus est.
Et resurrexit tertia die
secundum Scripturas.
Et ascendit in coelum:
sedet ad dexteram Patris.
Et iterum venturus est cum gloria,
judicare vivos et mortuos:
cujus regni non erit finis.
(English translation):
H...
2017-05-0912 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerThree Summer Sketches: III. Spring GreenThis is the third movement of Geoffrey Gordon's Three Summer Sketches, for solo piano, commissioned for pianist Jeri-Mae Astolfi by the Wisconsin Arts Board, and recorded on the Ravello label. Buy the whole disc here: http://www.ravellorecords.com/wisconsinsoundscapes/
2016-04-0405 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerThree Summer Sketches: II. Mineral PointThis is the second movement of Geoffrey Gordon's Three Summer Sketches, for solo piano, commissioned for pianist Jeri-Mae Astolfi by the Wisconsin Arts Board, and recorded on the Ravello label. Buy the whole disc here: http://www.ravellorecords.com/wisconsinsoundscapes/
2016-04-0403 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerThree Summer Sketches: I. Black EarthThis is the first movement of Geoffrey Gordon's Three Summer Sketches, for solo piano, commissioned for pianist Jeri-Mae Astolfi by the Wisconsin Arts Board, and recorded on the Ravello label. Buy the whole disc here: http://www.ravellorecords.com/wisconsinsoundscapes/
2016-04-0404 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerQUINTET for Clarinet and Strings: Third MovementThis is the world premiere performance of the third movement of Geoffrey Gordon's QUINTET for Clarinet and Strings, played by the JACK Quartet and New York Philharmonic principal clarinet, Anthony McGill. The New York Times called the work, commissioned by the American Music Project, "darkly seductive....."
"Mr. Gordon’s Clarinet Quintet combines a zest for sonic experimentation with a four-movement structure built around thematic signposts — reiterations of an opening motif — that guide the listener through a colorful and atmospheric journey. That motif is built on accordion-like layered string chords from which the clarinet emerges almost coyly, with a veiled sound and si...
2016-04-0108 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerQUINTET for Clarinet and Strings: Second MovementThis is the world premiere performance of the second movement of Geoffrey Gordon's QUINTET for Clarinet and Strings, played by the JACK Quartet and New York Philharmonic principal clarinet, Anthony McGill. The New York Times called the work, commissioned by the American Music Project, "darkly seductive....."
"Mr. Gordon’s Clarinet Quintet combines a zest for sonic experimentation with a four-movement structure built around thematic signposts — reiterations of an opening motif — that guide the listener through a colorful and atmospheric journey. That motif is built on accordion-like layered string chords from which the clarinet emerges almost coyly, with a veiled sound and si...
2016-04-0109 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerQUINTET for Clarinet and Strings: Fourth MovementThis is the world premiere performance of the fourth movement of Geoffrey Gordon's QUINTET for Clarinet and Strings, played by the JACK Quartet and New York Philharmonic principal clarinet, Anthony McGill. The New York Times called the work, commissioned by the American Music Project, "darkly seductive....."
"Mr. Gordon’s Clarinet Quintet combines a zest for sonic experimentation with a four-movement structure built around thematic signposts — reiterations of an opening motif — that guide the listener through a colorful and atmospheric journey. That motif is built on accordion-like layered string chords from which the clarinet emerges almost coyly, with a veiled sound and si...
2016-03-3106 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerQUINTET for Clarinet and Strings: First MovementThis is the world premiere performance of the first movement of Geoffrey Gordon's QUINTET for Clarinet and Strings, played by the JACK Quartet and New York Philharmonic principal clarinet, Anthony McGill. The New York Times called the work, commissioned by the American Music Project, "darkly seductive....."
"Mr. Gordon’s Clarinet Quintet combines a zest for sonic experimentation with a four-movement structure built around thematic signposts — reiterations of an opening motif — that guide the listener through a colorful and atmospheric journey. That motif is built on accordion-like layered string chords from which the clarinet emerges almost coyly, with a veiled sound and si...
2016-01-0606 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerFATHOMS IV The Isle Is Full Of NoisesThis is the fourth movement of Geoffrey Gordon's FATHOMS, Five Impressions of Shakespeare's The Tempest (with Prelude) for cello and piano, in a performance by cellist Toke Moldrup and pianist Steven Beck, from Carnegie Hall, 17 December 2015.
"Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices,
That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me, that, when I wak'd,
I cried to dream again."
2015-12-3005 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerFATHOMS III Caliban (and Sycorax)This is the third movement of Geoffrey Gordon's FATHOMS, Five Impressions of Shakespeare's The Tempest (with Prelude) for cello and piano, in a performance by cellist Toke Moldrup and pianist Steven Beck, from Carnegie Hall, 17 December 2015.
"You taught me language, and my profit on't
Is, I know how to curse ..."
2015-12-3003 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerFATHOMS II Ariel And All His QualityThis is the second movement of Geoffrey Gordon's FATHOMS, Five Impressions of Shakespeare's The Tempest (with Prelude) for cello and piano, in a performance by cellist Toke Moldrup and pianist Steven Beck, from Carnegie Hall, 17 December 2015.
"To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride
On the curl'd clouds ...."
2015-12-3005 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerFATHOMS I Ferdinand And MirandaThis is the first movement of Geoffrey Gordon's FATHOMS, Five Impressions of Shakespeare's The Tempest (with Prelude) for cello and piano, in a performance by cellist Toke Moldrup and pianist Steven Beck, from Carnegie Hall, 17 December 2015.
Miranda: "Do you love me?"
Ferdinand: "O heaven! O earth! Bear witness to this sound ...."
2015-12-3005 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerFATHOMS: Prelude And StormThis is the prelude from Geoffrey Gordon's FATHOMS, Five Impressions of Shakespeare's The Tempest (with Prelude) for cello and piano, in a performance by cellist Toke Moldrup and pianist Steven Beck, from Carnegie Hall, 17 December 2015.
"A most auspicious star...."
2015-12-3005 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerFATHOMS V Prospero Drowns His BookThis is the fifth movement of Geoffrey Gordon's FATHOMS, Five Impressions of Shakespeare's The Tempest (with Prelude) for cello and piano, in a performance by cellist Toke Moldrup and pianist Steven Beck, from Carnegie Hall, 17 December 2015.
"But this rough magic
I here abjure, and when I have required
Some heavenly music, which even now I do,
To work mine end upon their senses that
This airy charm is for, I’ll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I’ll drown my book."
2015-12-2206 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON Winterleben IThis is the premiere performance of Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, Winterleben, a setting of five texts by poet Friedrich Rückert, for mezzo, horn and piano, commissioned for Los Angeles Philharmonic principal horn, Andrew Bain, through the gracious support of Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting.
Friday, August 7, 2015
Zipper Hall, Los Angeles
Andrew Bain, horn
Renee Rapier, mezzo
Nic Gerpe, piano
PROGRAM NOTE:
Friedrich Rückert, (1788-1866) – German poet, philologist, orientalist – was a profound source of inspiration for Gustav Mahler. The composer identified deeply with the directness and refined sensibility of his verses, declaring that ‘after Des Knaben Wunderhorn I could not compose...
2015-11-0505 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON Winterleben IIThis is the premiere performance of Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, Winterleben, a setting of five texts by poet Friedrich Rückert, for mezzo, horn and piano, commissioned for Los Angeles Philharmonic principal horn, Andrew Bain, through the gracious support of Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting.
Friday, August 7, 2015
Zipper Hall, Los Angeles
Andrew Bain, horn
Renee Rapier, mezzo
Nic Gerpe, piano
PROGRAM NOTE:
Friedrich Rückert, (1788-1866) – German poet, philologist, orientalist – was a profound source of inspiration for Gustav Mahler. The composer identified deeply with the directness and refined sensibility of his verses, declaring that ‘after Des Knaben Wunderhorn I could not compose...
2015-11-0504 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON Winterleben IIIThis is the premiere performance of Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, Winterleben, a setting of five texts by poet Friedrich Rückert, for mezzo, horn and piano, commissioned for Los Angeles Philharmonic principal horn, Andrew Bain, through the gracious support of Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting.
Friday, August 7, 2015
Zipper Hall, Los Angeles
Andrew Bain, horn
Renee Rapier, mezzo
Nic Gerpe, piano
PROGRAM NOTE:
Friedrich Rückert, (1788-1866) – German poet, philologist, orientalist – was a profound source of inspiration for Gustav Mahler. The composer identified deeply with the directness and refined sensibility of his verses, declaring that ‘after Des Knaben Wunderhorn I could not compose...
2015-11-0504 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON Winterleben IVThis is the premiere performance of Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, Winterleben, a setting of five texts by poet Friedrich Rückert, for mezzo, horn and piano, commissioned for Los Angeles Philharmonic principal horn, Andrew Bain, through the gracious support of Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting.
Friday, August 7, 2015
Zipper Hall, Los Angeles
Andrew Bain, horn
Renee Rapier, mezzo
Nic Gerpe, piano
PROGRAM NOTE:
Friedrich Rückert, (1788-1866) – German poet, philologist, orientalist – was a profound source of inspiration for Gustav Mahler. The composer identified deeply with the directness and refined sensibility of his verses, declaring that ‘after Des Knaben Wunderhorn I could not compose...
2015-11-0504 min
Geoffrey Gordon ComposerGORDON Winterleben VThis is the premiere performance of Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, Winterleben, a setting of five texts by poet Friedrich Rückert, for mezzo, horn and piano, commissioned for Los Angeles Philharmonic principal horn, Andrew Bain, through the gracious support of Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting.
Friday, August 7, 2015
Zipper Hall, Los Angeles
Andrew Bain, horn
Renee Rapier, mezzo
Nic Gerpe, piano
PROGRAM NOTE:
Friedrich Rückert, (1788-1866) – German poet, philologist, orientalist – was a profound source of inspiration for Gustav Mahler. The composer identified deeply with the directness and refined sensibility of his verses, declaring that ‘after Des Knaben Wunderhorn I could not compose...
2015-11-0506 min
Arts ExtractCatching up with three Madison comics, for WORT-FMToler Wolfe, Geoffrey Asmus, and Gena Gephart joined us this week for a talk at WORT studios. Segment produced by Dylan Brogan. Music by Mr. Jackson.
2015-03-1313 min
The Cutting RoomEpisode 56 - Interview with Geoffrey Richman (The Cove, Sicko, Murderball) - Part 3 of 3In this part of the interview Gordon and Richman discuss cutting Moore's Sicko and the documentary Murderball.
2011-05-0616 minThe Cutting RoomEpisode 55 - Interview with Geoffrey Richman (The Cove, Sicko, Murderball) - Part 2 of 3Gordon interviews Geoffrey Richman, editor of Sicko, Murderball, God Grew Tired of Us and The Cove. In this episode looks at how he tackled The Cove.
2011-04-1921 minThe Cutting RoomEpisode 54 - Interview with Geoffrey Richman (The Cove, Sicko, Murderball) - Part 1 of 3Gordon interviews Geoffrey Richman, editor of Sicko, Murderball, God Grew Tired of Us and The Cove. In this eps. they discuss his approach to cutting.
2011-04-0815 min