Kevin Scott
Kevin Scott writes:
Hello, all!
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are looking forward to
the grand holiday season to end this year (and, for some of us purists,
the decade), so I bring you some wonderful treats to enjoy!
Some of you may have already seen these notices on Facebook and may have
already received my missives separately, but for the many who don't
grace social media, here's the news:
Nearly one month ago, the brass ensemble of the University of Aveiro,
Portugal under the direction of Luis Carvalho, performed my Three Fanfares from "King Lear" in
a program devoted to music for brass and percussion. This is the first
time any of my compositions received a performance on the European
continent, and it certainly will not be the last:
Second, one of my earliest works was recorded for The Christman Opera
Company's ongoing series "Voices Raising Voices" which features vocal
compositions of minority, LGBTQIA+ and women composers. My latest
contribution is Three Songs on Poems of Langston Hughes, which was
composed in 1979 for my friend Wilhelmina Fuller, but finalized this
year, and sung in this video by Sooyeong Kang:
Next is a major interview for Af-Am Point of View, a newspaper devoted
to events about Black Americans published in Springfield, Massachusetts.
The interview was conducted by Magdalena Gomez who is the Poet Laureate
of Springfield, and Magdalena and I go way back when we both grew up as
teenagers in the Bronx:
And finally...
My latest composition entitled Night Journey for
French horn, violin and piano. Originally composed in 2015 on a call
for scores from The Red Hedgehog Trio, this work was expanded from two
minutes (the call asked for works to be no longer than two minutes) into
a large-scale multi-section composition lasting twenty minutes on a
request from my friend Leonard Lehrman who, with the violinist Dan
Hyman, wanted a work for their upcoming series of virtual concerts to be
posted on YouTube for the 2020-21 season. Along with hornist Jeanine
Nagao, Night Journey is
scheduled to be aired sometime in February. When this news is finalized,
I will send out all information regarding the viewing of this
performance.
But for now, if anyone is interested in hearing it, there is a MIDI mockup on my SoundCloud page:
The score will be available soon.
And that's all the news for now. Looking forward to see what happens next year and decade!
Sincerely,
Kevin Scott
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