Feb 03
new interview up here: http://www.classicalconnect.com/#/playlists/interview with the great Jon Tolansky (BBC, WQXR). Registration is easy and quick and allows you to hear the entire interview!
Jan 20
info/article on the new wind sextet (Commissioned by the Georgetown Quintet through the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County):
http://www.gazette.net/stories/01202010/entemon110732_32548.php
Dec 08
ALICE MANIA!!
Posted in *[statement]: recitals/concerts Tagged alice, art of elan, ballet, san diego, san diego museum of art, san diego symphony
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It seems the world has gone mad for Alice. (My Alice ballet will premiering in April, 2010 in San Diego.) Check out the year’s other notable Alice projects here.
Nov 20
Great news! The RE[gogreengo]MIX album is released on iTunes TODAY!! (Coincidentally my bday!)
buy your copy here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id340718534
Includes mixes by DJ Carl Michaels, ThingNY’s Paul Pinto , Peter Pony Clement (Prince of New York), Jamie Johnson , Gemini Wolf’s Megan Pandar Cauley, and Michi Wiancko (Kono Michi).
Cover art by Chris Rugen (https://twitter.com/rdesign)
Nov 11
checkin’ in.
Posted in *[statement]: don't call it a comeback.... pressreleases recitals/concerts Tagged alice in wonderland, art of elan, avery fisher career grant, colette harding, composer in residence, Demarre McGill, desiree hines, enhake, joe hallman, joseph hallman, julie smith, Kathryn Hatmaker, Libby Larsen, nosferatu, organ, san diego, san diego symphony, traverse arts project
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…it’s been a hullabaloo-of-a- month for me. I spent the last week or so fighting off swine flu- not so fun! At very least I was able to catch up on b movies and soupy tv.
I just finished up a quartet for enhake, a very talented and exciting quartet in residence in FSU (Florida State University). We will be performing the new work this December at FSU with other works commissioned by Libby Larsen and others. I will also conducting masterclasses and lectures around the concert.
This weekend I will be traveling to NYC and working on tracks with composer Paul Pinto and guitarist Barry Seroff. We are the Fancy Gentlemen. Expect a very hot EP sometime around the holidays!
Remixing is an entertaining and fulfilling part of my life these days. I am just wrapping up remixes for Yoko Ono and the Philadelphia band, Gemini Wolf. Will release details on drop dates for albums as soon as they are out. The gogreengo remix album will also be available very shortly. Expect it on iTunes mid-December.
On the plate is the ballet, Alice, commissioned by the amazing Art of Elan. This ballet is based on Alice in Wonderland and receives it’s premiere in San Diego in April. The score is for a chamber ensemble of narrator, alto sax, flute, harp, percussion, and string trio. The work is being choreographed by Colette Harding and performed by the Colette Harding Dance Company. This is a fun and inspiring project and is a great amalgamation of talent: Colette, the Art players (including the Avery Career Grant-winning flutist Demarre McGill, Artistic Director and violinist Kathryn Hatmaker, and uber-harpist Julie Smith).
Nosferatu is a 1922 silent film that recently received a screening here in Philly with the organist Desiree Hines. Hines incorporated my new work for organ, Petite Suite Macabre, into the live scoring. The work was commissioned by the Traverse Arts Project. It ran for two shows on Halloween Eve and the audience was amazing! The place was sold out.
If this sort of thing doesn’t keep me busy enough, I am also taking some wonderful courses at University of Pennsylvania. I love learning and this is an integral part of my life.
I also teach. Teaching is something I love and learn so much from. I have some very talented students, who are in the midst of working on some great orchestra pieces for readings next week! I teach through Drexel University and also privately. This takes some of my time as well.
Some other exciting news: The Traverse Arts Project has appointed me Composer-in-Residence and also the Assistant Director of Festivals. More info forthcoming on this appointment and a soiree to honor the appointment.
Oct 30
Nosferatu!!
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Fun event tonight, in honor of Hallow’s eve!
from CityPaper:
Halloween is arguably one of the best weekends in Philadelphia and — come on! — this year it’s on a Saturday. You shouldn’t have any trouble finding spooky ways to entertain yourself this weekend, but I thought I’d do a little wrap-up of a few gay events I thought looked the freakiest. And by freakiest I mean totally friggin’ awesome.
-Celebrate like they did in the ’20s at a screening of the 1922 horror film, Nosferatu ($5-$10). The film, which will still spook you out of your skivvies, plays on Fri., Oct. 30 at 7 & 11 p.m. in the Neo-Gothic sanctuary of the First Unitarian Church (2125 Chestnut St., 215-563-3980). The thing that takes this event from being kind-f cool to fantastic is the live pipe organ accompaniment by diva organist T. Desiree Hines, who Carolyn Huckabay wrote about back in May. Hines will not only be improvising throughout the film, but she will also key traditional organ repertoire and an original piece by Philly-born composer Joseph Hallman entitled “Petite Suite Macabre.”
more info here (CityPaper) Philly) and the press release from Traverse Arts Project here.
Sep 27
twitterdee and twitterdum
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Are you a tweeter? I am. [follow here: @HallmanComposer )Sometimes it can be an extremely useful tool. A recent example : @AliNAskin helped me diagnose a Sibelius bug (a music notation software). It can also be an entertaining stream of celeb gossip, comedy, and world happenings. I “witnessed” the Perez Hilton-Will.I.Am idiocy and learned about events in Iran in a stream-of-consciousness stew.
Twitter is a good way to communicate with friends, the music loving public, and to learn of new trends in all the arts.
these are a few of my favorite tweeters:
@nightafternight – NYT music writer and blogger, Steve Smith
@PhilaCulturati – Philly culture news from writer and marketing whizkid Rachel Dukeman
@tefjrNYC an old friend from Cleveland – follows all worth knowing in NYC, politics, etc, etc , etc.
@carlmichaels – A famous Philly DJ – sometimes posts free mixes of his. Sweet!
@PianoGeek – a grad student pianist. dramatic and funny most of the time.
@JoseSPiano – a NYC pianist and foodie with a cute little monkey.
@soloflute – Joshua Smith, Principal flutist of the Cleveland Orchestra, masterful artist.
@classicalReview - UK blogger. great conversations!
@lownote – NJ music blogger. funny punny man.
Check us all out on Twitter and say hi!
Sep 26
de Larrocha. (1923-2009)
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de Larrocha was an inspiration in my early life. I remember stealing the Mozart sonata recordings from the music “library”. devoured them.
Mozart is one of my heroes. Alicia de Larrocha. Jessica Hornik. Weilersteins (Don, Vivian, Alisa, Joshua). Michi Wiancko. Maria Pires. Milan Kundera. Paul Hindemith. Mark Morris. Bjork. those are some others.
Aug 15
Just wanted to put all the info on the remix project and the listening party in one central place!
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Great news. We can add one more mixer to the mix!
Paul Pinto is a composer/performer who heads the successfulThingNY. You can check out ThingNY here:http://thingny.bravehost.com/ and Paul here: http://www.paulpinto.bravehost.com/.
And here is a clip of a fun piece ThingNY commissioned, I wrote, and Paul sang- fun! :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8eXD-Li03A
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<-just added a super duper remixer to the project, MICHI WIANCKO. check her out: http://www.myspace.com/konomichi
Michi is among the talented young violinists in the world fortunate, tenacious, and MEGA talented enough to make a career as a soloist and chamber musician. She also, like me, does a pop side project. I cannot wait to hear what she cooks up for the mixes!!!
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new remix up. here. (the zeus hagl mix)
I have been working with some great djs and musicianfolks on remixes of the gogreengo EP. gogreengo was an experimental pop project I did about three years ago. I had been unemployed and was listening to myriad new pop releases on the radio. I set myself a little challenge to create a pop album (this would be through my filter: pop as concept to me) in three days. Three was an arbitrary number. I did the entire album on my laptop, with no studio time. It consists of loops, synths, instruments I had laying around the house, processing and even the occasional dog bark or tv clip.
This hagl remix is the remix of Zeus (fom the EP) that I will submit for the forthcoming remixes album. Feel free to leave feedback on the remix- I am open to suggestion from most! Re[gogreengo]mix will be collection of tracks from artists like DJ Carl Michaels, Peter Clement (P.O.N.Y. [Prince of New York]), Gemini Wolf s Pandar. I will release four of my own remixes for the songs: Zeus (the hagl mix represented on the myspace.com/gogreengotheband), Understand, Fire, and Surtitre. Keep tuned for more details on release info later this summer.
You can buy the gogreengo EP here (cheap! @ $5.97) and if you havent already checked out the Cello Concerto (The St. Petersburg) EP, you can do that here. Even bigger bargain @ $2.97 !! And it is with the inestimable Alisa Weilerstein and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, with Jeffrey Meyer directing. Alisa will be playing with the Berlin Phil, NY Phil, Boston Symphony, etc. this season! Make sure you catch her concert in the city/hall closest to you. She is a supremely special and passionate person and quite truly, a musical gift.
IF youd like to becme a fan on myspace you can do it here: pop and classical
twitter: here
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9/10/09: Listening Party for re[gogreengo]mix @ Apothecary (Happy Hour) meet the mixers :
international violin soloist and popstar! Michi Wiancko (Kono Michi), Peter Clement (P.O.N.Y. [Prince of New York]), DJ Carl Michaels and Jamie Johnson, Gemini Wolfs Megan Cauley (Pandar), NYC Composer/Performer Paul Pintoand me for discounted delicious drinks & first listen to the entire album!
Hope to see you there!
Aug 13
9/10/09: Listening Party for re[gogreengo]mix @ Apothecary (Happy Hour) meet the mixers :
international violin soloist and popstar! Michi Wiancko (Kono Michi), Peter Clement (P.O.N.Y. [Prince of New York]), DJ Carl Michaels and Jamie Johnson, Gemini Wolf’s Megan Cauley (Pandar), NYC Composer/Performer Paul Pintoand me for discounted delicious drinks & first listen to the entire album!
Hope to see you there!