symphony concertante piano, organ and orchestra

[Andy]

three movements in one file:

1st "Haley" (allegro non tanto)
2nd "Ransom" (andante)
finale "Ireland" (vivace)

symphony concertante in F

andy

[Boneman]

Just listening Andy, sounds nice but a bit echo-y.

What do you compose with?

[Ron Ofir]

Wonderful! You are a very skilled composer, and this is yet one more piece you wrote that I love (probably my favourite with that fantasy you wrote)! I'd love being in a live performace of this composition.

Bravo!
Ron Ofir.

[reith]

Definitely your style, Andy. I know you like your reverb and that's fine if a bit heavy in places.

A very nice piece with your usual accomplished concertante piano style. The movement of instrumental parts has the occasional baroque feel but quite complex. Wish I had your command of textures and balance.

Love the close of the first section. Also like the way the organ emerges, subdued until rising above the rest at around 7'25". I could hear the pedals there in the background for a while before.

A glorious end! Some harmony. Elevating. Only comment is - couldn't the organ really let go at the end, just a bit more? Well, perhaps enough is enough but I was looking forward to a real 100" blast!!

The whole coheres very well. Your piano music needs a good deal of stamina!
A superb piece, Andy.

reith

[Andy]

Originally Posted by Boneman

Just listening Andy, sounds nice but a bit echo-y.

What do you compose with?

gosh boss... i understand the reverb issue. it is probably my ears. it sounds pretty swell on my monitors at groundzero as a wave file. i have to compress for bandwidth reasons. i am dialup at home as i live in the sticks of Alabama. no cable or DSL is available. i go to work (which has a marvelous T1 line) and convert the wave to either MP3 or WMA bepending on my mood... i listen to it with some really @#$% monitors there and it sounds passable. so i think it is my ANCIENT ears.

i am content...just to get the general idea down. really, what we do... we have to be dead 100 years to be appreciated. it is the price we pay for choosing TONAL music.

i am using SONAR producer 6.2 with a dual AMD 2.8GH DAW with 2 MOTU 828MKII audio interfaces. master controller is a Roland XV-88 weighted and a XP-50 unweighted secondary controller. most of the sounds are hardware with the piano being software VSynth samples.

thanks for asking....

andy

[Andy]

Originally Posted by Ron Ofir

I'd love being in a live performace of this composition.

Bravo!
Ron Ofir.

gosh, thanks for the grand encouragement. to pull this off live would be a monster, i am afraid. it would be terribly expensive with renting a hall with a suitable organ, renting all the players. i have a friend who is able and willing to tackle the piano pro bono. i can't play as well as i could 20 years ago.

i will to be content, though...just to be able to create in my little virtual world. this work spans over 20 years with the 2nd movment being the newest (started in 2004).

my friend in OH at valleypraise productions (www.valleypraise.com) is working up a multimedia bit for it, that i am looking forward to seeing. they have done several for me in the past. it is good to have REAL friends who encourage.

thanks, Ron
andy

[Andy]

Originally Posted by reith

A glorious end! Some harmony. Elevating. Only comment is - couldn't the organ really let go at the end, just a bit more? Well, perhaps enough is enough but I was looking forward to a real 100" blast!!

reith

HAHA you got it! maybe a little plaster cracking MEGA FORTE FULL STOP organ at the very end... let's look at that.

thanks for the encouragement.

this is a MARVELOUS forum with folks that seem to really listen. i am ENJOYING all the outstanding composition work that goes on here. by far, the best i have heard and i have been in many. mostly stale,stodgy and WAY to atonal for my brain.

to me, instrumental music has to always say something. or else...what is it doing? there is some work out there that seems to try it's best to say nothing comprehendable.

thanks, Reith
andy

[reith]

Ah, well, Andy - you write enjoyable, accomplished music so I can't easily stop part way through!

Although, for my part I tend to listen to submissions to the end if I've time to start, either with a view to commenting if asked for or just enjoyment! I don't know how it proceeds on other fora - I visit only one other (to keep up with a couple of people) which has become more like a playground these days.

cheers,
reith.

[Andy]

Originally Posted by reith

Although, for my part I tend to listen to submissions to the end if I've time to start, either with a view to commenting if asked for or just enjoyment! I don't know how it proceeds on other fora - I visit only one other (to keep up with a couple of people) which has become more like a playground these days.

cheers,
reith.

thank you sir...

this is an unusual forum. most places i have haunted, it seems that there is little interest in listenning...only in being heard.

there is such a WEALTH of talent here...that it is truly amazing that it is not more well known.

unfortunately....most of us chose a genre...that requires one to be dead at least 100 years to be appreciated..HAHA

i am grateful for this forum of peers...who listen.

now on to your latest post. i am on dialup here, in the wilds of Alabama...so it is tedious but well worth the wait.

cheers.... join you for tea one day?

andy

[Majesty]

Beautiful!!!!

I love your opening theme in the first movement and how throughout the colorful weaving that goes on in the piece you bring it back in its pure form! The first movment is my favorite. Boy, I love those organ entrances.

Great piece!! Loved all of it!!!