Please join us at the Lilypad Gallery in Cambridge for the opening concert of the Fifth Floor Collective's third season, Plugged In. The show is Friday, January 11 at 7pm, and it's free. Not only will you get to hear the wacky piece I've been working on for a few months, you'll also hear music by Andrew Paul Jackson, Joseph Colombo, Ben Runyan, and Michael Frengel. It's going to be a great time!
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FFC: Third Season Announcement!
Boston Musica Viva is performing abstractEXTRACTION three times today!
Here's a shot from rehearsal on Saturday, which went swimmingly. Hope to see you there! Details are at the BMV's website.
Upcoming performances: BMV Live@SoWa
I'm thrilled to announce that the Boston Musica Viva will be performing abstractEXTRACTION (three times, no less) at "BMV Live @ SoWa" on September 16 at the Carroll and Sons Art Gallery in Boston. The mini-concerts will be performed between 12:30pm and 3pm, and will coincide with a gallery showing of music-themed photography by Henry Horenstein (not to mention the wonderful SoWa Open Market).
Aside from my music, they'll also be performing works by Froom, Sierra, Donatoni, Gandolfi, and Hoffer.
Hope to see you there!
Review: STILL LIFE, 1985 (2012)
The Equilibrium Concert Series' Bloom concert last week at Alpha Gallery was a great success, and it was an honor to have my music played so beautifully. The Boston Musical Intelligencer apparently agreed! Check out Stefanie Lubkowski's review, which just went up today.
An excerpt:
Patrick Greene’s Still Life, 1985, an accompaniment to the painting of the same name, was similarly contemplative, but with a bit more contrast to its ebb and flow. The eponymous painting was one of several in which Bloom rendered vases amassed on a draped table with a bold Technicolor palate and an evocative depiction of light glinting off the golden surfaces. This clarinet, viola, and cello trio began with all three instruments in a single note unison passage that soon broke out into short micro melodies energetically led by the clarinetist Kevin Price. As the piece progressed, longer passages of somber melody and harmony emerged, again with the clarinet in the lead and the strings setting the foundation. Eventually, violist Zoe Kemmerling and cellist Christopher Homick took center stage with a beautifully played elegiac melody. The coda then collapsed back into a harmonically reduced and texturally sparse section reminiscent of the introductory passages. This coda however, was less of a denouement and more of a revelation, like the moment when light breaks into a room, revealing what was previously hidden.
The piece will be played again in the same space tomorrow night at 8pm. I unfortunately can't make that performance, but please come out and support Equilibrium! It really is a wonderful evening of music and art.
I'll also be posting an audio excerpt from the performance on here shortly, so stay tuned.