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With Joy: The Choral Music of Daniel Kallman by The Choirs of First Presbyterian Church, Clarks Summit, PA
Ares by Stirling Newberry
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fave it Contemporary | Traditional
10 tracks | 59 minutes
Released Mar 2007
on Xigenics Incorporated
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- sample "album only" 03:41 Toccata, Prelude and Fugue "album only" 03:41 Toccata, Prelude and Fugue "album only" 03:41 Toccata, Prelude and Fugue
- sample "album only" 04:20 Sonata in C# - I Allegro Agitato "album only" 04:20 Sonata in C# - I Allegro Agitato "album only" 04:20 Sonata in C# - I Allegro Agitato
- sample "album only" 15:23 Sonata in C# - II Variations in Search of a Theme "album only" 15:23 Sonata in C# - II Variations in Search of a Theme "album only" 15:23 Sonata in C# - II Variations in Search of a Theme
- sample "album only" 04:40 Sonata in C# - III Finale "album only" 04:40 Sonata in C# - III Finale "album only" 04:40 Sonata in C# - III Finale
- sample "album only" 04:30 Sonata in F# - I Allegro Barocco "album only" 04:30 Sonata in F# - I Allegro Barocco "album only" 04:30 Sonata in F# - I Allegro Barocco
- sample "album only" 05:36 Sonata in F# - II Funeral Music for Lear "album only" 05:36 Sonata in F# - II Funeral Music for Lear "album only" 05:36 Sonata in F# - II Funeral Music for Lear
- sample "album only" 01:26 Sonata in F# - III Valse False "album only" 01:26 Sonata in F# - III Valse False "album only" 01:26 Sonata in F# - III Valse False
- sample "album only" 02:57 Sonata in F# - IV Hommage a Chopin "album only" 02:57 Sonata in F# - IV Hommage a Chopin "album only" 02:57 Sonata in F# - IV Hommage a Chopin
- sample "album only" 07:19 Sonata in C - Ares - I There Will Be War "album only" 07:19 Sonata in C - Ares - I There Will Be War "album only" 07:19 Sonata in C - Ares - I There Will Be War
- sample "album only" 09:14 Sonata in C - Ares - II History's Music Box "album only" 09:14 Sonata in C - Ares - II History's Music Box "album only" 09:14 Sonata in C - Ares - II History's Music Box
Three Piano Sonatas, including "Ares, A Sonata as Prelude to Disaster in Iraq"
Bio / Background
In October of 2002, it was clear to me that America was inexorably committed to going to war with Iraq, and that because of the dismal quality of American executive leadership, the result was destined to be a costly and bloody failure. This sonata is both the sound of my banging my head against the wall as excuses and shoddy rationalizations were presented to deny what was being voted on on the floor of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and a vision of what would have to come afterwards.
Every era has its peculiar means of evoking humor, and it is almost always related to the culturally indispensable. In the Age of the Enlightenment, where rapier exchanges of words could raise or crush expectations, the coin of the realm was wit. In the Romantic, which used exaggeration for emotional effect, and worshiped nature, the grotesque moved to the front. In the modern, it was irony - "You would shoot me for saying this, if you knew I was saying it.
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