[New Web Series] Afterglow
A new weekly web series featuring new music, film, and art in dialogue and live performance.
This new "AFTERGLOW" weekly web series begins with the creation and performance of a piece in three short movements, played by the composer, with instruments which are common household tools and appliances. The music is meditative, reminiscent of chant in many traditions, and underscores a larger point that art can be found anywhere and everywhere, any day. How lovely.
at Millennium Stage
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[Web Series] Sparklers: Andrew Earle Simpson's Improvisations for the Day
A series of short, improvised piano pieces based on the day
Imagine being a composer and performer in quarantine. Your scheduled professional appearances over the next several months have been postponed or cancelled. What do you do now? Well, if you’re Andrew Simpson, you improvise.
Professor Simpson, director of the Rome School’s Stage Music Program, has been creating daily videos since April 16, combining short musical improvisations with images on a different theme each day. Read more
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01) Birds of Love and Prey: Bird cadenza
02) Birds of Love and Prey: The Tit and the Lovebird
03) Birds of Love and Prey: The Owl and the Nightingale
04) Birds of Love and Prey: The Turtle Dove
Deborah Sternberg, soprano; Andrew E. Simpson, piano, summer 2016
05) Mountains in the Clouds (clip 1)
06) Mountains in the Clouds (clip 2)
Corvus, Fairbanks (AK) Summer Arts Festival, July 2019
07) Double Axe
Various, Harman Center for the Arts, DC, May 2019
08) Patterns and Lines: 3. As Above, So Below
09) Patterns and Lines: 4. Traveling and Stopping
10) Patterns and Lines: 7. Patterns and Lines: A Canon
Cantate Chamber Singers, May 2016
11) It is Time: first movement (“the sense of an ending”) (clip 1)
11) It is Time: first movement (“the sense of an ending”) (clip 2)
Cantate Chamber Singers, May 2016
Double Concerto
13-15) 1. funk rodeo
16-19) 2. flamenco moon
20-21) 3. slapstick joyride
Great Noise Ensemble
Andrea Vercoe, violin; Max Zuckerman, guitar, May 2012
22) Improvised interlude for piano and percussion
Andrew Simpson, piano; Barry Dove, percussion
National Gallery of Art, September 2013
Part of NGA program entitled "Abstract Animation Since 1970," featuring silent animations with live, newly-composed scores
from The Furies, opera in one act on Aeschylus’ Eumenides (2005)
23) Ah, Sisters, We Suffer!
24) Let Pan Care for Her Thriving Flocks
25) Finale
Bridgid Eversole, soprano, Catholic University Opera Theater
26) Lies, from Agamemnon, opera in one act on Aeschylus’ Agamemnon (1999-2001)
Jessi Baden, mezzo-soprano, Catholic University Opera Theater
from A Crown of Stars, wedding oratorio for chorus and chamber orchestra (2006)
27) Opening
28) O My Bliss
Cantate Chamber Singers, Gisèle Becker, Music Director
29) Coda from Petruchio, tone poem for symphony orchestra (1995)
Indiana University Concert Orchestra, Daniel Alcott, conductor
30) Opening from lotus and poppy, for mezzo-soprano, tenor, and chamber ensemble (2007)
Robert Baker, tenor; Bo Chang, mezzo-soprano
31) Excerpt from phos, for piano and percussion (2001)
Contemporary music Forum
32) Opening from Tesserae: Six Mosaics of Ancient Rome, for flute, viola, and guitar (2003-04)
Red Cedar Trio
33) Excerpt from Lucky Stars, for chamber ensemble (2007)
The Snark Ensemble
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