Steven Bryant

The BCM Discussion Forum is hosting composer David Holsinger this week as part of our brand new "Guest Artist Spotlight." David will be participating online all week, answering questions from all quarters. The forum is free and open to all - everyone is invited to sign up and participate!

On another note, Radiant Joy is already scheduled for a performance here at BGSU by Bruce Moss and the...

... is finished. Still some tweaks remaining to the score, and then there's the matter of making parts. The music, however, is finished, and it's a little different for me. Shiny. Happy. Joyous, even. :)

Premiere is set for October 17th 15th, by Jack Stamp and the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Wind Ensemble. They'll also be recording it in the Spring at some point.

I've moved into my...

I'm about to begin the long process of dissasembling my studio and packing into my pickup truck for the long drive to Ohio. I almost finished this piece for Jack Stamp's wind symphony at IUP, but I still need an ending. I wish I could do a fade out - that's what sounds best to me at the moment. Also, I still have no title. Some ideas, including one I might keep, but need to think on that a...

Beethoven's grave in the Zentralfriedhof, in Vienna:



I'm finally back in the US after an extended and spectacular stay in Austria and surrounding countries. Too much to describe in this post, but it was truly phenomenal. I'm going back next summer.

Flying back last Thursday was less spectacular (though I did get a free upgrade to Business Class, somehow, which made the 10 hour flight really...

We just finished our week at Mid Europe 2006, and I have way too many pictures and not enough time to really cover everything so far. The short of it: Austria is stunning. Schladming exceeds the ability of my camera to capture it. Mid Europe is a blast.

For all my new friends in the WYWOP, especially the flutes and oboes (whom I was a sectional coach for), it was truly great to meet and work...

I've been neck-deep in this new piece for Jack Stamp's wind ensemble at IUP, thus the lack of timely blogging. The piece will be a 4-5 minute opener, and so far feels very bright and shiny in character. The premiere is October 17th, so I have a little time, but I'm heading to Austria and surrounding areas for for five weeks, starting this Wednesday, so I'm trying to finish the piece pronto.

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Yesterday, Jim Bonney posted some outtakes from his Mortal Kombat "death screams" session. It sounded hilarious and painful. And irresistable to my audio slice 'n dice compulsion. So I stayed up last night making this (this is the best method of procrastination I've yet found). This is 100% pure Jim, no additives or preservatives (well, a little pitch shifting, perhaps...):

Damnit, Jim

Inspired by Newman's recent post on digging up, airing out, and potentially discarding old works, followed by Mackey's post of an old work of his, I decided to do something similar.

However, both of their works (Mackey's Elegy and Fantasie, and Newman's Lullaby for Munch in Hell), even though they hem and haw and say how juvenile they might be and basically try to make a litany of excuses before...

Belatedly, a few pics from the premiere...

I neglected to get a good daylight shot of the poster outside Alice Tully Hall, but my host, Tina Gonzalez, managed to nab one. Crazy, huh? My name seems so... vanilla... in that context. I should change it to something cool, like Mozartoslawski.



I don't have any pictures from the earlier rehearsals (I kept forgetting to take any), but here's a blurry...

I'm finally back from New York, and have the time and internet access to post. Unfortunately, blogger is misbehaving right now, and keeps losing the connection, so I'm going to post the recording for now and deal with pictures later. It's a single file containing all three movements, so it's a bit large.

Now, before you dive in, some points:

1) The piece is 23 minutes long, thus the 28 Mb file...

The premiere last night was extraordinary. The orchestra was fantastic. I am indebted to Maestro DePreist for asking me to write this, for programming it, and most of all for bringing it to life last night.

Pictures and such coming soon.

Had two rehearsals - yesterday and this morning, and it's really coming together. The second movement still needs a little more passion and intensity, but the first and third are sounding fantastic. We have the dress rehearsal tomorrow morning in Alice Tully Hall, and I think that will give them time to pull the final details together. It's been amazing to sit through these rehearsals - it...