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What a stunning piece! Played so well also.

Harmonic support section...incredibly helpful... great video all around. Thanks for sharing this.

Absolutely stunning performance!

Beautifully done.

Beautiful scenery ❤😊

Awww Nick congrats sweet friend 😊

Brava to pianist Asya Gulua, and Bravo to composer Gary Noland, for this wonderful piece in tribute to Frederic Rzewski ... Peace! 🎼❤☮ Gerald Wilhelm Braden / Composer

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Godowski lives! Wonderful composition and performance, nearing the boundary of what's possible-- Bravo!

Asya makes it look far easier than it actually is to play this ferocious nightmare of a piece-the mark of a world-class pianist! For anyone interested in acquiring the score (and many others by the same composer), it can be found in COLLECTED PIANO WORKS: Volume 1 by Gary Lloyd Noland, which is available at most major book retailers.

Wonderful presentation, Walter! I'm so glad it all worked out. I wish I could have been there. The quilts are fantastic! and your music compliments them so very well. Having done some quilting myself, I agree with Carie's comments. The complexity of the work involved is amazing and so creative and artistically done! I look forward to watching this presentation again and sharing it with others! Thanks again! Liz Nedela

I LOVE IT

Great to see Dr. Bernstein! I was most fortunate to be his last student at the University of Akron. A memory I cherish deeply... I hope you are well, sir.- Craig Hoffman

Beautiful composition

On the positive side: composers with an open attitude about what can be done on your instrument, or what are other interpretations of their music besides what they originally envisioned. And composers who THANK YOU, and point out things you did that they like. Libby Larsen comes to mind. She thanked me for “playing the rhythm as written.’ And also wasn’t shy about praising the performance of a particular movement of the piece I was playing as the best I’ve heard. That does wonderful things for one’s self esteem. On the negative: working with people who have different rehearsal expectations, for example, I HATE rehearsing right up until the downbeat of a concert. I feel like I can’t decompress from the rehearsal enough to really focus on the performance. And yet I’ve run into others who want to rehearse even while the audience is entering the hall, thinking that every moment must be spent rehearsing, I think to possibly have some sort of musical momentum going into the performance. I find this is especially true of others who are significantly younger than me. They have the energy to do that, whereas I am older (60s) and I simply cannot sustain that kind of energy endlessly.

Marvelous. How I have missed you all!

Wow!! Fantastic work, everyone! ❤️

“Imaginary Choreography” by Andrew Sigler is such a buoyant suite, especially the coquettish first movement. With but a few departures, this is a tonal work, but how Sigler finds and exploits the hidden corners of both the major and the minor scales, especially in II. Moonstruck, which can hold its own any day next to Arnold Schönberg’s “Pierrot lunaire.” The piano trio performs the work splendidly!

Susan DeWitt Smith gives us an exquisite performance of “Eternal Gardens” by Michael Johanson. Drawing on the musical languages of Gabriel Fauré and Olivier Messiaen, with a little passion from Samuel Barber, Johanson gifts the world with a fitting tribute to Toru Takemitsu. What I find extraordinary about this piece, so demonstrated in this wonderful performance, is the diversity and even juxtaposition of simple triads with willowy clusters, crystalline sonorities with Romantic tonal expressions, and their synthesis into a new music that is on its own path apart from its forbears. The recollection of that gorgeous opening idea sotto voce a third lower shortly before the end reflects a creative life well-lived by both Takemitsu and Johanson. Bravo!

Andrew Lewinter’s “Nonet” is certainly worthy of our listening, if the Passacaglia is any indication. Scored in e minor, it bears a resemblance to the finale of Johannes Brahms’ 4th Symphony in its three opening variations. The lilting syncopations sneak in as a curiosity but later commandeer the whole movement as the multitude of fast virtuoso runs explodes into a glorious triumphant closing chord! It leaves me breathless!

Another splendid violin/piano duo is “Dust and Shadows” by John G. Bilotta. A clear view of the panorama ahead (the soliloquy in d minor by the violin) becomes obscure as other distant tonalities “dust” it and the piano enters with the “shadows,” low and dark sonorities unpledged to any tonality. I love the elasticity of this piece as all these tensions play against one another and the work ends in a disquieting way.

Adam Eason’s “The Tao of Clouds” brings a crystalline vibrancy to our ears and hearts where the splendid violin/piano duet perform as one organism with so many colors of sound and light.

Lisa Neher is magnificent as a composer and a performer. She flawlessly and effortlessly brings so many new sounds to our ears, but enunciates the precious few words so well and makes them so significant in this encounter.

William Toutant’s “Remembrance” is a life-giving work of the lives it portrays. The string quartet was stunning to hear and see.

All about Abstracts Part V.

Congratulations to all composers and musicians presented within this video! The piece of my friend composer Gary Noland transported me in various places. Mozart once wrote to his father Leopold:"I could write music in every style!"...Well, Gary has the capacity to "melt" styles which seem incompatible one to the other and, by that, he manages to create something new and strangely beautiful because very diferent worlds seem to get joint in one. Congratulations Gary! Congratulations to the beautiful soprano and the excellent pianist as well! They managed to "paint" Gary's music with such beautiful colors of their musical souls..

Nice work friends.

Bravo for this music, and especially for the piece at about 121:00 by my composer friend Gary Noland! His piano intro and a few short sections are a bit overly atonal for my ears, though I do understand why he composed it like this to set up the mood. Though as it moves through the very haunting vocal melody and cabaret feel, the rest of the piece is sublime with melody, harmony, and feeling....Peace! 🎼❤

Excited!

here for a 3rd hearing... great piece...well-performed!

Beautifully written...and so beautifully played!

Well done! Well done!

Very nice, David!

Very sweet and uplifting piece! Seems to fit the paintings as well :) nice performance and video..congrats!

Cellist Avery Waite and pianist Jeff Payne are the performers.

Bravo Gary! This was a very fun and interesting music piece and journey. I really enjoyed your cello writing...Peace!