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“VTW was written in 1995, while I was studying at the conservatory in Ghent, Belgium. Unfortunately, there is no good English translation for the Dutch title, but it refers to the fact that I was living in my third country at that point (I am from the Netherlands, and had also lived in the US before that).
Tags: bass, chamber music, clarinet, piano, solo violin, Stoepler
We’ve just finished recording our performance of Frederic Glesser’s “Summer Nights Passing” for flute, harp and strings.
Tags: chamber orchestra, flute, Glesser, harp, string orchestra
| A Screaming Comes Across the Sky |
Performed by The Fauxharmonic Orchestra,
Conducted by Paul Henry Smith
“Man, this is absolutely dynamite!
You have done a fantastic job of capturing all of the nuance of the piece - the variety of the percussion, the string divisi, the mutes - all of it is here. I can’t imagine how many hours of work went into this. I just want to congratulate you on your frighteningly accurate representation of the piece.”
– David Heuser
Associate Professor of Composition at University of Texas San Antonio,
Winner of the 2006 Fauxharmonic Orchestra Composition Contest.
Like most of Ludwig Tuman’s writing, Awakening, a work for chamber orchestra, resists being easily classified.
| Awakening (chamber orchestra) |
While composed in an atonal idiom, it contains hints of the classical music of Java, the raga of India, the baroque concerto grosso, and other sources that attentive listening will discover, blended together within a coherent artistic statement.
Awakening is not program music in the sense of following a specific story line. However, as its title suggests, the music does evoke a movement from darkness into light, from dreams to consciousness. Listeners have described their experience of listening to it in terms of an individual awakening, nature’s revival after winter, creatures evolving over eons, and an entire world spinning into the morning.
To learn more about Ludwig Tuman’s background and music, or to view the score of Awakening online, click here.
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The Fauxharmonic Orchestra is pleased to announce that composer David Heuser has won its first annual international orchestral composition contest. Heuser’s work stood out as particularly expressive, original, inventive and powerful. The winning composition, A Screaming Comes Across the Sky, was chosen from among eighty-six entries. Heuser will receive a cash prize as well as a recorded performance of his work by the Fauxharmonic Orchestra. The contest was open to composers of all ages, career stages, and nationalities.
Paul Henry Smith has just completed the score for Brett Konner’s short film “The Bump in the Road,” produced by Bulldog Productions.
“the emergence of digital sound is really a watershed moment in the history of music. It enables us to harness technology in the service of musical adventure in ways that were unimaginable only twenty years ago. The computer is the ultimate instrument of the imagination.”
Daniel Powers wrote a piano concerto, had it premiered by an orchestra, and then, due to technical problems, ended up without a recording of his work.
“genuinely impressive …
extraordinary potential”
“Fascinating … Smith is
a bright guy”
“a smooth, fairly realistic sound”
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