Steven Bryant

I'll be a guest composer at the New Music and Art Festival at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio at the end of October. The Wind Ensemble, under Bruce Moss, will be performing all of Alchemy in Silent Spaces, and the orchestra, under Emily Freeman Brown, will be performing Loose Id for Orchestra on Saturday, October 29th. I'm particularly excited to hear Loose Id again -...

It's official, The Juilliard Orchestra, under the amazing James DePreist, will give the world premiere of the orchestra version of Alchemy in Silent Spaces in May, 2006!

I'm working on the arrangement this Fall. The first and third movements will be very similar to the wind version, but I'm considering rewriting the second movement from scratch, and using only string orchestra, solo flute, and...

Spent the weekend painting the core of the house. Almost finished. We're going with "Mexican Feather Grass" for the living and dining rooms, which you'll see below. It's a muted "Pottery Barn" green - very classy. The molding and trim is all some sort of slightly eggshell off-white. Granary white or something. It works. House already looks ten million times better.

Here are the test...

This past weekend, Scott Stewart (commissioner of Rise for band) and the Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony visited New York to perform at Carnegie Hall. On Friday, they came by Juilliard and gave an extra concert on the Lincoln Center Plaza, and I was around to hang out with the group for a little while. I have to say the band had great presence and intonation, especially for playing outside in the...

Went out walking this morning with the camera, and headed down to the nearby "Old Mill" which is mildly famous for appearing in the opening credits of "Gone With the Wind". It was built in 1933 to capture the feeling of an abandoned mill from the 1800s. It's a beautiful spot in the midst of North Little Rock (the whole area here (Lakewood) is atypical of the endless sprawl of American...

Today, my father, brother, and I drove down to Murfreesboro, Arkansas (where my dad grew up, and home to the only diamond mine in North America) to take some pictures and see some relatives. We had lunch at the "Squat and Gobble" BBQ restaurant. I ordered ribs, not realizing just how freaking BIG they would be. I was too busy wrestling them to the ground to get a picture (I'm no match for...

Last night, I had the pleasure of conducting "Dusk" with the Livingston High School Wind Symphony. We finally had the entire band there (having a trombone section definitely helps!), and they did a great job with the piece. I think we woke some people up with that climax section!

A big "thank you" to Mike Jedwabnik, the LHS Band Boosters, and the Wind Symphony for inviting me out and letting...

Went out to Livingston, NJ to work with Mike Jedwabnik and the Livingston HS Wind Symphony on Dusk tonight. Their concert is next Wednesday, the 25th, and I'll be conducing Dusk with them - looking forward to it! Tonight was a little rough because we were missing several players (started rehearsal without a trombone section...), but they have a lot of talent and are going to pull of a great...

I just heard a recording from one of the premieres of Jonathan's Avenue X from last week. It's as good as Jim says it is. Can't wait to hear it live! If any groups out there reading this are playing at Midwest this year, this is your piece - take a serious listen to it (I'm sure Newm can provide you with the audio upon request)...

Everyone flood Newman's mailbox with congratulations and...

Since it's now all over the news, I guess it's no longer a secret: the Rolling Stones are playing 3 tunes at Juilliard this Tuesday, May 10th, about 1pm, to announce their new tour. They're only letting about 150 students onto the Plaza to hear them, so I imagine it'll be a mob scene. I'll try to catch them from the back entrance as they enter through the President's office (I find this...

Juilliard's "Beyond the Machine" electroacoustic series culminated tonight at The Allen Room (Jazz @ Lincoln Center), with a diverse group of pieces and approaches to using technology in music. My piece went well, and the quartet deserves a huge "thank-you" for playing their arms off on it. Let's hope we can do the rumored recording session in the near future!

I don't have any good pictures of...

The premiere was last night, and the players did a great job. The speakers and the venue weren't ideal - lots of midrange, very little presence, muddy, but the piece works, and this Friday at The Allen Room (Jazz @ Lincoln Center) should sound fantastic.


The Juilliard Electric Ensemble (l-r: Christina, Pat, Chris, Nadia) - many thanks - you guys have been working hard on a lot of music for this...