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SAND CAST MUSIC INC
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Om Mani Padme Hum
excerpt from demo
Garden Music
for piano and silence, 5 minute excerpt from new album now at iTunes
Road Song from Charts
Our Nation for orchestra
When Yellow Leaves from Poems
Update May
NEW for piano and silence - Garden Music now at iTunes.
No, there's nothing wrong with the sound files - this hour-long piece is mostly silence, interspersed with 114 brief, tonal haikus ... or perhaps they are flowers. Different than anything I've composed before, and perhaps something birds in a garden would enjoy in the background. Sheet music available. Exerpt
NEW for choir - Om Mani Padme Hum
20 min. piece for choir and pedal tone, sung to the Buddhist "om mani padme hum" chant. Sound sample (exerpt). Score sample
A listener in Japan has made an exceptionally nice visualization of one of the Stream sections:
The Steve/Anna duo is now doing its own booking, so please contact us directly.
Upcoming in Stockholm: May 19 - Fasching jazz club May 30 - Blidösundsbåten
Looking forward to concerts in Japan in October, including the premier of Miserere in Hiroshima.
Here is the Hiroshima Central Chor, conducted by Nozomi Terasawa, with a rousing version of Zakuro, then Inochi and Te Deum:
New pieces: Miserere and Omnis Terra, commissions from Japan and Germany. Three new jigs. For piano: Xia, Novella.
Garden Music, for piano and silence (up at iTunes); Cantate Domino, for women's choir and piano. Upcoming: Stabat Mater.
Akademiska kören i Linköping, conducted by Oskar Ganestål, has recorded my Christmas Cantata for choir and pipe organ - ordered here
Christmas Cantata at YouTube
A page about Mass from Korea, and a broadcast from Italy. Interest in the choir music has been picking up in Italy (thanks to Antonella in Bari for the pict)...
Fairy Tales with the late Radka Toneff ranked #1 in a "Best Norwegian Albums Of All Time" musicians poll
Performances:
Te Deum in the Netherlands, Norway and Germany
Mass in the US, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Guatemala
Requiem in Italy, Indonesia and Germany
Suite Romantique in the UK
Roads in the US and Germany
My Rose in the US
Mass, Te Deum, D Minor Mass, Zazuro Miserere in Japan
Omnis Terra in Germany
The amount of music I've released digitally the last few years now greatly exceeds that of the "official" physical CD releases (the kind that get reviewed and find their way onto vanishing CD shop shelves). I much appreciate the listeners who've sought out recent albums such as World and Stream - among my best , I believe - from iTunes and other online sites. The reviewers may catch up, someday ; )
iTunes news: piano recordings Stream and World are now rereleased as single, long-play albums. Two choir+orchestra albums on the Nosag label, Requeim/Te Deum and When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd are now at iTunes. New at iTunes from the duo: DEMOS (EP) - the 2005 demos that directly led to our recording contract. Includes previously unreleased versions of songs from the album It's Always You. Also at amazon
Life Is But A Dream - 5 songs set to children's poems by Lewis Carroll, notated for voice/piano
Listen to instrumental demos of A Boat Beneath A Sunny Sky and Jabberwocky.
A review of the My Rose CD at iTunes
Recent piano composition: Timeline
THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS - special offer for this as yet unperformed Christmas show (and personal favorite)
For Spotify users: the piano CDs Charts, Stream, World, Ebony Moon, Spanish Steps, Your Songs - are now at Spotify
Mass has been performed in over 40 countries