Resident composer David Gaines is currently working on a new concerto for baritone saxophone and chamber orchestra (you heard right) for Seattle baritone saxophonist James DeJoie. This new piece will be recorded this fall in beautiful downtown Bratislava by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra under its principal guest conductor, Kirk Trevor. The results will be braised in a zesty brown sauce, tossed with chopped scallions, and then mixed with DG's Jubilee for euphonium & piano and Suite Of Changes for viola & mallet percussion (featuring marimba virtuoso Nancy Zeltsman) prior to being served with an aggressively chilled bottle of Night Train Express on a CD of contemporary chamber music to be released on the MMC Recordings label sometime in late 2008.
Our first podcast of volume two, round two, whatever you want to call it will be up & rolling in a few weeks, featuring discussion of our Rip Van Winkle-like arousal from a year and a half's worth of slumber (the equivalent of decades in the 'net world) as well as a survey of the current state of contemporary music & the media. Stay tuned.
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