The Composer Chronicles
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Stephen Trygar delves into the stories of composers past and present and their works. Each episode focuses on a particular work by the featured composer and examines their life during the time the piece was written and performed. Through these tales, you're invited to explore each composers' legacy and their impact on keeping the world entertained. Once a month, a living composer will..
The Composer Chronicles
1y ago
What do you get when you gather ten composers, all with different musical styles, talents, backgrounds, and areas of expertise? You get ICEBERG.
Featured pieces (in alphabetical order by composer last name):
Unfolding for strings and live electronics by Drake Andersen
Coatlicue barría la escalera del templo (Coatlicue was Sweeping the Temple Steps) by Victor Baéz
pOwer trIo for alto sax, piano, and percussion by Alex Burtzos
Decomposition by Yu-Chun Chien
RISE by Derek Cooper
Steep for strings, percussion, and celesta by Jack Frerer
Clarinet Quintet by Max Grafe
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The Composer Chronicles
1y ago
The plays of William Shakespeare have been an inspiration to countless other pieces of art, and that includes composers and music makers. Giuseppe Verdi, one of Italy's leading composers in the 19th Century, was thrilled at the idea of getting to set an opera to one of Shakespeare's plays, something he would return to for the rest of his career; it all started with Shakespeare's terrifying tale Macbeth.
Theme music is by Daryl Banner
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The Composer Chronicles
1y ago
Let's kick off this spooky season with a Movie Night! Today, I am happily joined by author and booktuber Cameron Chaney. The film Trick 'r Treat is one of his favorite movies, enough for him to start a tradition of watching it every year with other activities; however, the music of this film is even more special. Besides setting the mood brilliantly, the music holds special significance to Cameron.
Where to find Cameron and his work:
Facebook | Instagram | Goodreads | Patreon
Library Macabre
Autumncrow: Amazon | Goodreads
Theme music is by Daryl Banner.
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The Composer Chronicles
1y ago
Making his debut after the release of his first album Year of the Beard, Toska Bear has been on the rise as a singer and songwriter. His unique style marries elements of indie pop, synthwave, vaporwave, EDM, indie rock, and hip-hop, and Year of the Beard is inspired by gay culture, video games, and underground music.
Featured music:
From Year of the Beard: "Year of the Beard", "Time to Let Go", "Help Me Out", and "Prom Queen Days".
Where to find Toska Bear and his music:
Instagram | Twitter | BandCamp
Spotify | Apple Music | YouTube
Theme music is by Daryl Banner.
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The Composer Chronicles
1y ago
Richard Fay is a composer who has absorbed the culture of his ancestors and his hometown and embedded them into his own music. With a love for klezmer, Balkan, and Irish music, he had established many various ensembles to perform these musics as well as his own.
Featured music:
From Hamosity: Music for Hard Times: New Horizons, Hamosity Horo, The Seasons, The Heron Pool, and Sean Mannion
Where to find Richard and his music:
Website | Facebook | Instagram
YouTube | BandCamp
Theme music is by Daryl Banner.
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The Composer Chronicles
2y ago
In a world where music has time and time again been given narrative, Stephen Ryan Jackson uses his music to explore the mundane.
Featured pieces:
i can feel the universe expanding | solo voice + electronics
Tooth Necklace | flute + bass clarinet + violin + cello + piano + percussion
rinse & repeat | soprano saxophone + double bass + two percussion
Where to find Stephen Ryan Jackson and his music:
Website | Instagram
SoundCloud
Theme music is by Daryl Banner.
Alexandrian Media podcast music by Andrew Gavin. Voiced by Michael Bolton.
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The Composer Chronicles
2y ago
Melissa Dunphy is an award-winning and acclaimed composer specializing in vocal, political, and theatrical music. Melissa is a composer who would be amongst the first to tell you that, if you want to be a composer, you need to write what you're passionate about. After the premiere of her large-scale choral work the Gozales Cantata, her career took off, and she wants to share her vision with the world.
Featured pieces:
Come, My Tan-Faced Children | Performed by Raehann Bryce-Davis, Laura Ward, Min-Young Kim, Tim Ressler
More Milk, More Milk Makes it Better (from American DREAMers) | P ..read more
The Composer Chronicles
2y ago
You never fully understand what someone is going through unless you've lived it yourself. What makes Puccini's opera La bohème so powerful is that so many of its creators went through the same hardships that the characters of the opera went through.
Theme music is by Daryl Banner
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Music used in this episode:
"Quando m'en vo'" (orchestral version) from La bohème by Giacomo Puccini
Caught in the Waves by Trevor Kowalski
Divine by Amaranth Cove
For Those Who Know by Gavin Luke
Lion's Drift by Trevor Kowalski
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The Composer Chronicles
2y ago
This is TCC RADIO 2, a radio show style episode featuring the music of some the music you heard or learned about in past historical episodes on The Composer Chronicles. Today's episode features music by Berlioz, Gesualdo, and Satie.
Music featured in this episode:
“Un bal” from Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz | Igor Markevitch, Orchestre Lamoureux, 1962
“Omnes amici mei” from Tanebrae Responsories for Good Friday by Carlo Gesualdo | Vox Àltera Ensemble
Gnossiennes No. 1 by Eric Satie | La Pianista
Theme music is by Daryl Banner.
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The Composer Chronicles
2y ago
Video game and media composer Jamal Green set out on a journey that he thought would lead him in a very specific direction, but where he ended up, he would have it no other way. Jamal has seen considerable success writing for video games and film, writing the scores to games such as Equilinox, Sizable, Konami’s Skelattack, and most recently TOEM by Something We Made. Since 2019, he has scored two films, first the feature film Aberdeen by Cloudstar Pictures, which can be streamed on Amazon Prime, and second the indie film The Game Between Us.
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