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If I Was A Phoenix (2005) Transcendent odd-meter jazz anthem. This is the second of seven works I presented on May 7, 2006 (More) Transcendent odd-meter jazz anthem. This is the second of seven works I presented on May 7, 2006 for my Stanford University Senior Composition Recital. The concert was at 2:30 PM in Campbell Recital Hall. Performers featured include: Jake Smolowe, piano Gabe Davis, bass Mitchell Wilcox, drums Jonathan Liang, trumpet Anthony Diamond, alto sax website: http://www.jakesmolowe.com CDs: http://www.cdbaby.com/all/TheWildJacko ---- This piece separates itself from the rest of my work with its unconventional 15/8 meter, and complicated beat groupings within the metric structure. At 14 bars, it would be one of the shortest songs I've ever written, if each bar weren't so long. The form is AABA, with 2-bar A sections and an 8-bar B that alternates between two similar harmonic progressions until the last bar. Bars in the A-sections divide into two groups of 7 and 8, while those in the B-section divide into five groups of 3, with some syncopated hits thrown to drive the section forward. The melody at A is complicated, funky and bouncy, while the melody at B is lyrical and uplifting. The piece takes its name from a stanza in a poem I wrote looking back on the end of the long-distance relationship mentioned above; especially in the bridge, it highlights the spirit of survival and reconciliation in the latter half of the poem, the full text of which appears below. Life After Death 4/14/05 (rev. 1 - 2/13/06, rev. 2 - 3/15/07) If we were lovers, then we found common ground in our passion, solace in intimacy, holding on to our slip-knot connection through tears and kisses, quiet moments and deep breaths that we could both feel. But what if you were a dream? Then you were too good to be true; you gave me just enough blind hope to prolong my ignorant bliss. You showed me that peace and comfort can share a bed with spite and disillusion, and so often these days I wake up tasting salt instead of sweet. Guess I must have been a navigator, then, and lost myself in another, who having lost her own way, rendered me nearly irretrievable. I set a flawed course to a shifting destination, the appeal of which became less clear with every nautical mile. Or maybe I was a phoenix, and your flame has burnt me to the ground, reduced me to a small pile of dust spread out over a forbidding and desolate land. I've forgotten my majesty, discovered humility, for I cannot rise up without a helping hand to pull me out of this nest of ashes. So you became a lesson, and I have taken you to heart, using what you taught me to adapt to a life beyond you. I've saved a place for you on the blackboard of my mind, for rainy days and hard times when experience matters most. and We might have had a life together, beautiful and terrifying; when we lost it, we gained liberty and agony, walking roads obscured by fog-- convoluted, lonely, brooding uneven, trying not to contemplate what could have been. But first we were friends and that has never really changed, though we might look at each other differently, and speak to each other tentatively-- so if we cross paths again on this misty, foreign planet you'll always be welcome with me, and we can share a different sort of love, a life after death. JPS (Less)
Rudy Galindo - 1996 Hershey's Kisses Challenge "Ava Maria," the Franz Biebl version, is the music. Dedicated to Rudy's brother, who (More) "Ava Maria," the Franz Biebl version, is the music. Dedicated to Rudy's brother, who died of AIDS, it is performed by the Stanford University Fleet Street Singers, an a cappella men's chorus. Rudy's black costume adorned only with a red satin sash moved many affected directly and indirectly by the disease. The program was introduced at the 1996 World Championship Exhibitions, and this performance is from a competition a few days later. (Less)
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