Nicholas A. Booker
A blog about my music and life as a composer and musician.
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Friday, April 27, 2012
Crossroads Fair Chamber Concert
The Crysalus Duet will be premiering my new Elemental Suite for two flutes. You can see a performance of the first movement on YouTube here. The Papilio Quintet will be playing two recently composed pieces by Alex Daniels and Chistoph Rolfes. We'll also have Trio Impromptu... impromptu because they're usually a string quartet, but one of their violinists is busy that night. And last but certainly not least, we'll have the Lamont Saxophone Quartet. If you've never heard a saxophone quartet before, start looking for some, because it's a pretty fantastic sound, especially when it's a quartet composed of fantastic Lamont sax players.
So, if you can make it, go. It'll be a fantastic concert with some amazing musicians.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Chamber Concert Coming Up
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Figaro's Getting Married
In the Lamont Symphony, we’ve been preparing tirelessly for the fall opera, The Marriage of Figaro. We had our first rehearsals with the vocalists last week, and they’ve been fantastic. Watch out for Benjamin Wood. He’ll be shaking the rafters as Figaro on the Thursday and Saturday night performances, which are drawing scarily close.
I feel like we just started rehearsing yesterday, and the opera opens next Thursday night. Maybe that’s just because it’s my first quarter in the symphony. I’ve played at the Sydney Opera House and been to Oxford to play for the best flautists in the world, yet I still get nervous every time I start with a new ensemble. Anyway, if you’re in town and want to see the opera, you can get tickets here.
Meanwhile, back at the recording studio, I’ve started working on my new CD. It’ll be a mix of three songs I wrote in an acoustic alternative style for guitar and piano and lots of singing with four flute duets I wrote, a piece I wrote for tenor trombone, bass trombone, and piano, and I think I’m going to cheat and throw in a song I recorded last summer. It’s an arrangement of the Australian song Waltzing Matilda for two flutes and guitar in a Celtic style. And if that’s not multicultural enough for you, I promise I’ll wear a cowboy hat and a dashiki over my lederhosen while I’m recording it.