Far Away and Its Okay (We can always Skype)
A duet with Jeremy Edwards and Stephen Rush (toys/keyboards) (click the link below) Far Away and It’s Okay (We can always Skype)
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Short Stacks (sextet #2)
01 Short Stack Sextet to be released on Albany records in April 2019! I began “Short Stacks” in the Fall of 2008 and finished before Thanksgiving. I felt a bit useless as a composer – “between commissions”, as it were. At various times in my career I’ve felt the urge to write something “just for …
Clarinet Concerto and more here:
Clarinet Concerto – recorded in 2003 by the Warsaw National Symphony, Richard Stolzman soloist (written with the aid of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies Cards) 01 Clarinet Concerto ¡Stop Blaming Columbus! – a Jazz Opera, performed in 2005, Performance directed, composed, and conducted by Stephen Rush, libretto by Michael Rodemer A live performance, by Stephen Rush, …
Possession for Orchestra
Possession for Orchestra (excerpt) recorded by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra Possession for Orchestra(extract).mp3
Rebellion (for Trb/Pf/Perc) – (Alessi recording excerpt)
Rebellion (1983, pub. by C. Allen Publications), performed by Joe Alessi, Christopher Lamb and Virginia Perry Lamb (the recording is a 1-min. excerpt of a 7 minute piece)
Seventh Heaven Rag – at Kennedy Center
Seventh Heaven Rag! (click below to listen) – for Saxophone Quartet, published by Dorn Publications 06 Seventh Heaven Rag Or this performance at Kennedy Center – by the Moanin Frogs (check 54:15) http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/videos/?id=M5358
Listening Music for the Age of the Crystal Moon Cone
BUY MUSIC HERE: http://www.mooncone.com Stephen Rush (piano/toys/retro-electronics) Chris Peck (laptop/guitar) Jon Moniaci (accordion/laptop) We use music we find on the streets and in the forests and play it with our laptops. We play accordions, guitars, balloons, organs and pianos. Children’s toys. We play pretty music and we play noise. We care if you listen. We …
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Seven Operas by Stephen Rush
Black Pilgrims (2022)-mini-electronic opera A Fictional dialogue betwen Malcolm X and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to be premiered in January of 2023. Set to Hiphop beats and String Quartet. Ice Guys a Fluxkit Opera or a Tin Pan Alley Review about the only American on the Endurance Expedition (2020-2023) My second chance-based game-board …