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07 December 2018 Article: One Loon's Afternoon: history of this piece
When I first heard about a loon being rescued from tangled fishing line in the summer of 2008, I wanted to share the story by writing a musical composition about it. I asked my friend Rachel Oliver to write a poem telling the tale. During the following summers, I notated the loon calls heard at my house on Rangeley Lake in Maine, next to Lake Mooselookmeguntic, (pronounced Moose-look-muh-gun-tic) where the rescue occurred. Most loon calls fall within the range of the human voice and, surprisingly, ...
29 November 2018 News: One Loon's Afternoon scores ready
One Loon's Afternoon is for SATB chorus, clarinet, and flute. Editing and preparing the scores took much too long; finally I have offered them for sale on MusicaNeo. Besides a conductor's score and separate parts, there are two scores to be used for the chorus to rehearse with the piano (piano not used in performance.) One has the voice parts compressed into two staves, and shows the instrumental parts above them; the other has the vocal parts on four staves, with a piano part ...
17 August 2018 News: New performing group formed
Sierra Foothill Musicians consists of musicians and helpers from the foothill area south of Yosemite National Park. We plan to play several concerts a year. In June we played our first concert, at a church in Oakhurst, CA. Two pianists, a singer, a cellist, a flutist, and a clarinetist performed music by Scarlatti, Kuri-Aldana, Pierné, Schumann, Schubert, Fauré, Dvorak, Saint-Saens, and Barbara Ulman. My art songs Evening Dress and January Morning were on the program. An audience ...
05 November 2017 Article: Art Song in late November recital
Soprano Tiffanie Trujillo will include Barbara Ulman's art song "Evening Dress" in a recital on Wed., Nov. 29 at 7:00 PM in the Wahlberg Hall at California State University, Fresno. The music has the mood of the poem, which describes fog quietly settling in at dusk in the foothills south of Yosemite National Park. When Tiffanie first heard my music, she immediately wanted to sing "Evening Dress," and she did perform it in two concerts in Fresno. Now, after studying in Italy and ...
17 October 2017 News: New video
Check out the new video of my composition One Loon's Afternoon
29 September 2017 Article: My "Interval Studies" to be Performed
26 February 2016 News: Finished Three Songs in the Navajo Manner
I've finished the second and third art songs on Ron Singer's Poems in the Navajo Manner. All three songs are scored for tenor, two flutes, and percussion. I've written original melodies after listening to recordings. My intention has been to honor the flavor of Navajo music without actually copying anything I heard.
19 October 2015 News: New art songs
I finished writing two art songs this summer, using poetry by Ron Singer of New York and Maine: one for baritone, cello, and violin; the other for tenor, two flutes, and drum. Now working on two more scored like the second one, based on Ron's "Poems in the Navajo Manner."
19 May 2015 News: Demo and talk at local college
Last night I talked about my twelve Interval Studies to a class in musical history at the Oakhurst Community College. I explained how I used motivic development in "Perfect Fourths," played the two parts separately on the piano, and then played the whole piece with both hands. Then I showed a couple of the other studies as they appear on YouTube with Malinowski visualizations. We also played my three E. E. Cummings songs that are on YouTube in live performances, and then the students asked a ...
26 February 2015 News: My scores in CSU Fresno Music Library
The scores of most of my compositions are now catalogued and available for checkout from the Music Library at California State University, Fresno.

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