Barbara Ulman

Contemporary Classical Music
 
 
 
29 November 2018
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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
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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 ... 
17 October 2017
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New video

Check out the new video of my composition One Loon's Afternoon  
26 February 2016
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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
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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
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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
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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.  
31 January 2015
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My CD in CSU Fresno library

The Henry Madden Library at California State University, Fresno, now has my CD "Music of the Senses" available for checkout.  It can be found in the online catalogue.  
09 January 2015
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Interval Studies Performed

Pianist Alan Rea performed my twelve Interval Studies to an enthusiastic audience at the Fresno Musical Club meeting on Jan. 7, 2015.  People found humor and interest in them and encouraged me to get them published -- on paper. The videos of them on my website illustrate the notation in an intriguing way.  (see the Instrumental Music link on barbaraulman.com)  
26 October 2014
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Solo Piano Recital Nov. 2

I will play a piano concert on Nov. 2 at 2 PM in the Oakhurst, CA  public library.  I will perform music from the Baroque to the present, concentrating on short compositions with lyrical and romantic melodies.  Featured composers are Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Prokofiev, Bartok, Kabalevsky, and Ulman (the first version of my "Reverie," originally written for solo piano.)  
 
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