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found a cool Alice card panaroma thingy: here! at a friend’s place. so neat. alicefever.

if you haven’t jumped the facebook ship, if you like, go ahead & fan me here: http://tiny.cc/JHallmanComposerFacebook

session #2:
2 new songs!! here

sneakypeeks of new album (gogreengo) studio time: http://www.youtube.com/user/JoeHallman (4 miniclips)

direct playlist of 4 miniclips:http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=5E4216BC56B73581

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!

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

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.

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)

…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.

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.