It's unfortunate that there is still a need for war in this world.  At least you
can serve your country in a more peaceful capacity now, Jim.<br><br>Bob Happ

Amen Bob!<br><br>Jim

I've enjoyed your variations of these beautiful
Christmas tune. I'm curious about the 'sound-on-sound'
recording. You only list two performers. Did both of you
play two parts each and joined it all together
somehow?<br><br>Leo

Thank you Leo!<br><br>The way we worked it,
Harriet Dearden played the violin I part while I played
the piano for the Cello part, and then we used
sound-on-sound to allow her to play violin on top of the first
track for the Violin II and then Viola parts. It was
quite an accomplishment and fun to do!<br><br>We had no
string quartet, nor even a Viola or a Cello. Necessity
is the mother of invention!<br><br>Jim

Kind of reminds me of Wynton Marsalis's recording of a Baroque concerto for
three trumpets where he plays all three trumpets.<br><br>Bob H.

It was fun to do Bob!<br><br>Happy 2002 to all the club members! :-)<br><br>Jim

On the week of May 3, 2002, Composition Quarters will be featuring
James Signorile's Twilight Dreams, for Brass Quintet.  I will be
posting here the comments made in Composition Quarters about Jim's
piece, both thumbs up and thumbs down comments.

Bob Happelberg

Bob,

   I hope there are at least a couple of thumbs pointing up... :-)

Jim


--- In jamessignorilefanclub@y..., roberthappelberg <no_reply@y...>
wrote:
> On the week of May 3, 2002, Composition Quarters will be featuring
> James Signorile's Twilight Dreams, for Brass Quintet.  I will be
> posting here the comments made in Composition Quarters about Jim's
> piece, both thumbs up and thumbs down comments.
>
> Bob Happelberg

That's the case with the first comment.  Anita Gomez writes:

"Twilight Dreams is very beautiful music and [it's] modal. There's a
little flub around 2:10 [in the MP3 recording, but it's] no big deal,
[it] is [a] very nice performance overall. [This] music makes feel
like dancing [in the] court-like, graceful [manner] of ... dancing at
Renaissance fairs."



--- In jamessignorilefanclub@y..., signorile <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> Bob,
>
>   I hope there are at least a couple of thumbs pointing up... :-)
>
> Jim
>
>

Next, we have a comment from Joe Turbessi, who writes:

"[This piece is,] of course, excellent music. The opening modal theme
was simply gorgeous. One thing I would criticize is that it sounds
like a bunch of themes thrown together — it is obvious where they
begin and end and that the transition material was written after the
themes. On the whole, however, the piece does come off as being
fairly convincing, except for the last theme that begins at about
1:55. This theme sounds appended onto the piece, and I would
recommend disposing of it."

Next, we have a comment from James Wolovchek, who writes:

"[I] assess ... James Signorile['s] ... tone poem ...
[entitled] "Twilight Dreams" ... [to be] mildly dull."

I didn't know you wrote poetry, Jim.  I just got done leafing thru
Bob Happleburg's poetry magazine and read your poem "Why do you sit
their?".  Though in all honesty, your a much better composer than
your a poet.

Bob Soupe

Bob,

   Yes, I agree that I did not have a calling as a poet!  It was fun
writing a few poems and songs and if anyone else wants to read them,
they are at:

http://www.geocities.com/~jsignorile/songs.html

BTW, were can I see Bob Happleburg's poetry magazine?

Jim


--- In jamessignorilefanclub@y..., minimumbob <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> I didn't know you wrote poetry, Jim.  I just got done leafing thru
> Bob Happleburg's poetry magazine and read your poem "Why do you sit
> their?".  Though in all honesty, your a much better composer than
> your a poet.
>
> Bob Soupe

The poetry magazine can be read at
<http://www.geocities.com/abehonest1/index.html>.  You will need
Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or higher.  Jim's poem starts on page 6.

Bob Happelberg

--- In jamessignorilefanclub@y..., signorile <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> Bob,
>
>   Yes, I agree that I did not have a calling as a poet!  It was fun
> writing a few poems and songs and if anyone else wants to read
them,
> they are at:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/~jsignorile/songs.html
>
> BTW, were can I see Bob Happleburg's poetry magazine?
>
> Jim
>
>
> --- In jamessignorilefanclub@y..., minimumbob <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> > I didn't know you wrote poetry, Jim.  I just got done leafing
thru
> > Bob Happleburg's poetry magazine and read your poem "Why do you
sit
> > their?".  Though in all honesty, your a much better composer than
> > your a poet.
> >
> > Bob Soupe

Thank you Bob!

I'm honored to be included in your poetry magazine. :)

Jim


--- In jamessignorilefanclub@y..., roberthappelberg <no_reply@y...>
wrote:
> The poetry magazine can be read at
> <http://www.geocities.com/abehonest1/index.html>.  You will need
> Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or higher.  Jim's poem starts on page 6.
>
> Bob Happelberg
>
> --- In jamessignorilefanclub@y..., signorile <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> > Bob,
> >
> >   Yes, I agree that I did not have a calling as a poet!  It was
fun
> > writing a few poems and songs and if anyone else wants to read
> them,
> > they are at:
> >
> > http://www.geocities.com/~jsignorile/songs.html
> >
> > BTW, were can I see Bob Happleburg's poetry magazine?
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
> > --- In jamessignorilefanclub@y..., minimumbob <no_reply@y...>
wrote:
> > > I didn't know you wrote poetry, Jim.  I just got done leafing
> thru
> > > Bob Happleburg's poetry magazine and read your poem "Why do you
> sit
> > > their?".  Though in all honesty, your a much better composer
than
> > > your a poet.
> > >
> > > Bob Soupe

My friends,

   My good friend Lorin Swelk graciouly offered to do a new
realization of my MIDI sequecing of MARS (from The Planets by Gustav
Holst) and a little re-sequecing was also involved.  I really think
this is the best and most realistic rendering I have ever heard, and
it is as true to the original composers score as I could make it.

   If you're interested, you can hear it on mp3.com at :

http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/2746/2746246.html


Enjoy!

Jim Signorile

Music of James V. Signorile
http://jamessignorile.com/
http://www.mp3.com/signorile/

I recently decided to sign up with a real web hosting company to use
instead of my Geocities site (which was becoming too expensive for
too little) and I was contacted by ADDR.COM ( http://www.addr.com/ ),
which offered me, for $14.95/month, a site with 300Mb storage, 30Gb
traffic and 40 email boxes (and lots of other stuff - you can pay
less and get smaller amounts too).  They offered me 3 free months, so
I decided to give it a try, and so far I have been very happy with it.

I transferred the domain PIXELDREAMS.COM that I have owned for a
while to this new site and copied over my entire GeoCities site,
including the RealAudio and MIDI renderings of my music (
http://pixeldreams.com/music.html ).  I wasn't sure how well it would
work, but I also uploaded all my mp3 files there and also created m3u
files to do streaming, and put together the page :

http://pixeldreams.com/mp3.html

which is a copy of my page at MP3.COM, except that I haven't put up
the information about each work yet.  It seems to be working really
well, and now I have all my music on one site that I own, and that I
control, so I don't have to worry about Geocities or Mp3.com going
away.  I, of course, have to hope that ADDR.COM stays around! :)

If you get a chance, take a look and/or listen.  I think for the
price, it's a really good deal.

BTW, http://jamessignorile.com/ now redirects to my music page there
as well.

Jim

My mp3 page at:

http://pixeldreams.com/mp3.html

is now complete, as far as files and info goes.  I still want to add
more to it...pics, bio, etc, but all the music and descriptions are
there!  It was a tedious job, but if mp3.com goes away, I'm all set.

Enjoy!

Jim Signorile

I have overhauled my main music page, and it is now at:

http://pixeldreams.com/music.html

or it can also be reached via:

http://jamessignorile.com


Enjoy!

Jim

I will visit it!

--- In jamessignorilefanclub@yahoogroups.com, signorile
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
> I have overhauled my main music page, and it is now at:
>
> http://pixeldreams.com/music.html
>
> or it can also be reached via:
>
> http://jamessignorile.com
>
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Jim

I will visit it!

--- In jamessignorilefanclub@yahoogroups.com, signorile
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
> I have overhauled my main music page, and it is now at:
>
> http://pixeldreams.com/music.html
>
> or it can also be reached via:
>
> http://jamessignorile.com
>
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Jim

A couple of people have joined this club recently (Bill and Michael)
and I'd personally like to welcome them!

Thanks guys! :)

Jim Signorile
http://jamessignorile.com/

Leo Hergen, who posted here often, passed away Friday, July 18, 2003.

   A post regarding his passing can be read at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/compositionquarters/message/8686

Thank you for visiting and listening to my music Leo, and thank you
for being a friend.

You will be missed!

Jim

I guess there are more important things to do.

Goodbye,
Jim

After a long period of inactivity, we have had two new members join
since October 25th -- WELCOME!

I'm kind of amazed that people are still finding their way here, but
very pleased and proud that they have joined. :)

Jim

A hearty welcome to Dr. S. Pelican, who I know well, even though he
has reached the ripe age of 126 - but being those are in Pelican
years -- well, he could be other than that age.  But actually he is
ageless since because of the look and color of his cellar stairs, he
has had to live in the attic for so very long...

Ya had to be there.

Jim

So Jim, what music have you been writing lately? Concert dates coming
up?

Alonso del Arte

Hi Alonso!

   Long time, no hear.  I hope you've been well and creatively
occupying
your time.  I honestly am in a hiatus from writing for a bit.  Part
of
it is the long hours I have to spend at work these days and also I am
finding it pretty frustrating not getting my music played much, and
it's hard to get motivated to write without opportunities for people
to
hear it.  There was a concert last spring of my flute quartet
Breathless by the Generations Chamber Ensemble:

http://jag_webpages.tripod.com/generationsce/gen_spng05_flyer.html

which was great, but that was about it.  But I go through these from
time to time, and I'll come out of it one of these days.

I have been playing guitar almost daily as a way of relaxing after
work, and that is another form of music I really like, so that is
where
I'm at right now.

It's SOOOO nice to have a real post here for a change, rather than
all
the spam I've been getting.  Thanks so much for checking in.

Best,
Jim


--- In jamessignorilefanclub@yahoogroups.com, del_arte
<no_reply@y...>
wrote:
> So Jim, what music have you been writing lately? Concert dates
coming
> up?
>
> Alonso del Arte

I am now a moderator.

Any spammers will be banned.

All spam will be immediately deleted.

Jim

Very, very unfortunatly, due to virtually all new members and posts
being SPAM related, I have had to change the membership of this group
to Restricted.  This means that I must approve all membership requests.

If this becomes a problem with too many SPAMMERS trying to get in, I
will sadly CLOSE this group to future membership, and set up a private
place where the current members, and persons they recommend only, can
join.

I am not happy about having to do this, but SPAM has made the Internet
a not-so-friendly place to hang out any longer.

Say thanks to all the SPAMMERS who have nothing better to do with
their pathetic lives than ruin the freedom of others.

Jim