Symphony in D

For those who missed it last weekend, here is the Schimpfonie (as its dedicatee, Vienna-based composer David Babcock, calls it), performed by the Suburban Symphony Orchestra under Martin Kessler. It's about 26' long. Enjoy!

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Posted by: Rager
Posted on: May 23, 2008 01:36 PM

Congratulations on your first sym. Interesting textures and changes that continued throughout. I had to concentrate to figure out which direction you were going sometimes but I was with you at the end. The listener will never be bored listening to this work. I thought I heard Beethoven for a moment but it must have been the herbs I had for lunch.

When will Sym. #2 be finished?

Great job, I hope there are other performances of it.

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Posted by: Jeffrey Quick
Posted on: May 23, 2008 02:08 PM

Hi Dan,
Nah, it wasn't Beethoven, it was Tielke ;-) You have to watch those after-dinner smokes, lol!

#2? Actually, I have sketches for 2, but I have chamber works I want/need to write first. One is for a kind of octatonic-Bruckner 1st movement (of 4)for an orch. a little bigger than #1. The other is for a work to be subtitled "Homage to DuFay"for a chamber orch (21eh10 1000 hp 1 perc strings w/o DB). I will be a sonata-form in Lydian, II an isorhythmic motet and III an estampie.

Of course, given how much time I'm actually spending composing these days, these are strictly in the category of "vaporware".

Glad you took the time to listen and liked what you heard OK.

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Posted by: jeffrey smith
Posted on: May 24, 2008 03:54 PM

Congratulations. Just make sure no one calls it the chimpfony and you'll be doing good.

But please, nothing Brucknerian. I finally decided he's the father of the motion picture score, and you are too good to need to sound like John Williams. (Seriously. I can't listen the Bruckner 6 without thinking it's the rejected score to Lawrence of Arabia.)

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Posted by: jeffrey smith
Posted on: May 28, 2008 05:04 PM

Having finally had a chance to sit down and listen to it--sounded very good, except for the tuba. It kept getting lost in the shuffle--not enough volume. Next performance (Goddess willing, there will be one) have it amplified or doubled or sat down in front or something.

And was the horn supposed to go startingly offkey at one moment, or was that performer mistake?

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