100 Notes of Toy Piano

Yesterday (June 2019) I got an email from composer/keyboard player David Bohn that my submission to his call for scores was accepted. A friend found the call on ComposerSite (http://composerssite.com/content/toy-piano-100-project) and he thought it would entertain me. It was for newly composed 100-note compositions for toy piano. I had fun improvising a bit, and I   Read More...

Listening: Rimkus, Rotaru

Composer/bassoonist Brin Solomon’s blog reveals a lot of music that is new to me in their Music Monday posts. Taking Brin’s recommendation, I listened to Sarah Rimkus’s MacLeod Road for orchestra, a beautiful work with passages that shimmer with vibraphone bells. Brin’s review of the piece describes the music very well. (Update Jan-2020: the soundcloud track   Read More...

Music for Flute in my Spindrift catalog

Music for Flute by Pamela J. Marshall – that’s me. Several of these pieces are included on my album Through the Mist on Ravello Records. Solos Communing with Birds – inspired by my Costa Rica birding trip (recorded on Through the Mist album, performed by Susan Jackson) High Flight – for flute – musical expression   Read More...

Composing “Songs from a Quaker Heart”

What fun to hear the rehearsal of “Songs from a Quaker Heart” last night. This new music SATB chorus and piano is getting its premiere by the Arlington-Belmont Chamber Chorus, who commissioned it. The poems are by Marian Kaplun Shapiro, a fellow resident of Lexington, MA. So many of Marian’s poems are direct observation of   Read More...