01/15/2012: Michael Braudy performs an eclectic concert mixing several traditions – Western classical music, meditative Indian ragas, and Celtic tunes, including my piece, Paper Wings. Heavenly Music in a Sacred Space, Music for a Sunday Afternoon at St. Luke’s Church, 85 Greenway South, Forest Hills, NY.
Nice video clips of the PARMA Recording session of my piece, Of Time Remembered, in Olomouc, Czech Republic. This was such a cool experience.
PARMA's recording session of my orchestra piece, Of Time Remembered with the Moravian Philharmonic in the Czech Republic was an extraordinary experience. For a composer, life doesn't get much better than this. (photos & video clips to come soon)
10/23/2011: Paper Wings for solo violin, performed by Michael Braudy at the Nicholas Roerich Museum. Sunday, October 23 at 5 pm. 319 West 107th St. New York City The concert will take place in a room amidst some of the visionary, Russian painter's luminous scenes of the Himalayas, Russian Ballet costumes, and Hindu deities. Free admission. Come early and stroll through the three floors of paintings.
It's quite an honor to have this wonderful video of Nataliya Medvedovskaya's beautiful performance of my composition, Hourglass at Bargemusic.
9/17/2011: Third Wheel performed my piece Only to Ask at their terrific Heels & Wheels concert Concordia University in Irvine, CA. The Third Wheel Trio features Karin Kantenwein, flute; Adrienne Geffen, clarinet; Rebecca Rivera, bassoon. Just posted an excerpt of their performance on my Concert Works page.
9/11/2011: Shredding Glass will be broadcast between 10am and 12noon US Eastern Time, September 11 on Classical Discoveries "We Remember September 11" a 24-hour Live WPRB Broadcast with Marvin Rosen.
If you have a chance to listen, call Marvin (609-258-1033) to thank him for this incredible marathon broadcast. Special thanks to him for airing my composition and his amazing support of contemporary composers.
9/4/2011: Wonderful news. My composition, Afternoon Reflections, for solo basset clarinet, was awarded First Place in the Anton Stadler Composition Competition. The premiere is Sunday, September 4, 2011 at Acton Hill Church in North London by virtuoso clarinetist, Marc B. Naylor.
8/4/2011: My piece, Hourglass was performed by a wonderful pianist, Nataliya Medvedovskaya, in a cool concert August 4, at Bargemusic, Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn, NY.
I'm very excited and thrilled to announce the release of my orchestra composition, Tracing a Dream as the opening track on the Light and Shadow CD on PARMA Recordings' Navona label.
My piece was recorded by the Russian Philharmonic in Moscow, with Ovidiu Marinescu conducting. I was able to be there in the studio control room in Moscow for the recording session via Skype, which was totally amazing.
Other composers on this collection of modern orchestral works include Rebecca Oswald, Adrienne Albert, Russ Lombardi, Tadd Russo, and Daniel Perttu.
The physical disc is an enhanced-content CD, with the full music scores, program notes, and other extras. Enhanced CDs available at:
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Album, or single track downloads available at:
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My composition, Afternoon Reflections, for solo basset clarinet has been selected for the Anton Stadler Composition Competition Final. The Final will take place on Sunday, May 1st 2011 at Acton Hill Church in North London where International Clarinet Virtuoso Dr. Marc B. Naylor will perform the finalist's compositions.
My latest blog entry, Max Lifchitz - Living the Music on Hudson Sounds.
Sunday, February 6, 2011 at 3 PM Sound Waves.
Max Lifchitz conducts the North/South Chamber Orchestra in premieres of four works especially written for the occasion by Dinos Constantinides, Sean Hickey, David Maves and Rain Worthington.
The concert takes place at Christ & St Stephen's Church (120 West 69th St), NYC. Admission is free.
What an honor to be highlighted as Composer of the Week by these two wonderful violinists on The Twiolins website. Hope you'll take a look/listen.
4. Komponistin der Woche Posted In News für Komponisten.
English version.
12/8/2010: An a cappella version of my song, These days... performed in Alphabet Soup's program at The Tank.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
No Pianos Allowed - an Alphabet Soup Production
The Tank
354 West 45th Street
New York, NY
Alphabet Soup Productions' No Pianos Allowed, a night of acoustic and electroacoustic, vocal and chamber music with an eclectic mix of music with live electronics, guitars, vocals, computers, and acoustic orchestral instruments featuring works from living composers: Composer in Residence David Morneau, Camila Cano, Matt Frey, Yotam Haber, Marie Incontrera, Rob Voisey and Rain Worthington.
I am certainly honored by this review of my orchestra music by UK music journalist, Bob Briggs, for MusicWeb-International.
It is quite a talent and accomplishment when a music journalist can so completely "get" the core essence of the composer's intention.
To be able to capture the abstract emotional essence of a piece of music and distill it into words with profound understanding, providing a "key" with which other listeners can enter into the music, is a real gift.
Check it out at MusicWeb-International.
Download singles at CD Baby.
In response to a call for 35 second videos to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the American Composers Forum, I decided to give it a shot.
It's now posted on ACF YouTube.
Hope you'll take a 35 second look!
Double Entendre performs music by Faye-Ellen Silverman, Hilary Tann and Rain Worthington Sunday, September 26, 2010 at 3:00 pm.
At the Old Stone House of Brooklyn
The program will include the premiere of Martin Bresnick's new quartet, Going Home, and music by New York Women Composers: Faye-Ellen Silverman's Layered Lament, Hilary Tann's The Walls of Morlais Castle and Rain Worthington's Winter's Solitude and Resisting Reason, as well as pieces by Wendy Griffiths, Bill Dobbins and John Harbison.
Members of the Double Entendre Music Ensemble will be performing, along with Christa Robinson, oboe; Caleb Burhans, violin; John Pickford Richards, viola; and Brian Snow, cello.
My latest blog entry, Suspended in Aural Terrains on Hudson Sounds, the music by George Crumb presented by Bang on a Can at MASS MoCA.
7/7/10: Pianist, Max Lifchitz, performed a concert of solo piano music at the Barcelona Festival of Song. The program included my composition, Always Almost. Other music featured were works by: Fabregas, Villarini, Castro, Garrido-Lecca, and Copland.
Institut d'Estudis Nord-americans, Auditori de l'Ien
Via Augusta, 123
Barcelona, Spain
Shredding Glass and Yet Still Night are now available for downloads as singles on CDBaby.
5/23: Englewinds premieres Four Scenes on Forest Road. This work was composed for an Englewinds commission, scored for woodwinds and vibraphone, and is comprised of four (continuous) movements.
The premiere was partially funded by the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, and the Composer Assistance Program of the American Music Center.
Just became a blogger on Hudson Sounds and posted my first entry. Hope you'll check out this cool site started by writer Joseph Dalton for the NY Capital Region music scene. Enjoy.
March 26- Ricochet Duo with Jane Boxall, marimba & Rose Chancler, piano perform my marimba/piano piece On Curious Reflection as part of the Women in Music Festival at Eastman School of Music. It was so cool to write something for this combination of instruments.
Friday, March 26, 2010 7:00 pm – Ciminelli Formal Lounge,
Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY.
The Ricochet Duo program can be downloaded at the festival website.
3/24: I'm delighted to say that my composition, Tangents, will be performed by the West End Brass Quintet at the Hartford Women Composers Festival Local Composers Concert - March 24. This is the premiere performance of the brass version of this piece. (A version for solo piano was recorded by Max Lifchitz on Moods-Piano Music by American Women Composers on North/South Recordings.)
Local Composers Concert – 7:30 pm at Sisters of St. Joseph Church
27 Park Road in West Hartford, CT.
If you're in the CT area and can attend the concert, please say hello.
Exciting news. My newest orchestral composition, Tracing a Dream, was recorded by PARMA March 3 in Moscow. What an extraordinary experience... to be virtually "present" in Moscow in the control room via Skype for the 3-hr recording session discussing the music and the real-time recording takes with PARMA Producer, Bob Lord, Conductor, Ovidiu Marinescu and Artist Coordinator, Renee Dupuis.
Rain, Mark & NetMusicWorks on WJFF Afternoon Classics with Gandalf September 14 show. Listen to the audio archive online. Included in the program are music & phone interviews with other NetMusicWorks artists: New York Virtuoso Singers, David Froom, and Patricia Spencer.
8/24/09 Yet Still Night - for orchestra on CKWR "Monday Evening Concert," 9-11pm Kitchner Ontario, Canada, with Tom Quick, Music Host. Listen live online.
Still Motion - a cycle for orchestra has been recorded by the Millennium Symphony for ERMMedia's Made in the Americas, Vol 2 with Robert Ian Winstin, conducting. Release date pending.
July 1st, 9-11am, I was honored to be a guest on Marvin Rosen's wonderful radio show Classical Discoveries. Marvin broadcast selections of my music and Mark joined me, as Co-director, as we were interviewed about our new music promotion venture, NetMusicWorks.
Listen in at WPRB-103.3FM-Princeton.
Pianist, Max Lifchitz performed Always Almost on April 20th, NYC.
North/South Consonance Ensemble presented a concert entitled Ethnic Mosaic. The program also featured solo and chamber works by Richard Brooks, Bernardo Feldman, Dennis Kam, Max Lifchitz, Astor Piazzolla, & Steve Reich.
For more information visit: North South Recordings.
Confluences aired on Marvin Rosen's "Classical Discoveries" radio show March 25th. "Classical Discoveries" can be heard online at WPRB. For more information about the show, visit Classical Discoveries.
A special Sunday feature by Joseph Dalton appeared in the Albany Times Union March 8, 2009. The article entitled "Composer Rain Worthington finds a new direction" is a wonderfully written profile of my career by Joseph Dalton, music journalist and a former director of CRI.
Here is the full text.
Light & Sound joined with New York Women Composers presented a special Women Composers Concert.
Saturday, February 14, 2009 at The Old Stone House of Brooklyn. The program included Rain Worthington's Jilted Tango, along with works by Margarita Zelenaia, Binette Lipper, Judith Lang Zaimont, Elodie Lauten, Svjetlana Bukvich-Nichols and Beth Anderson.
Light and Sound featured violinist, Julianne Klopotic; cellist, Jennifer DeVore and pianist, Elaine Kwon, with special guest violinist, Anna Milosavljevic. For more information visit: Light and Sound.
Released. Pianist extraordinaire, Max Lifchitz performs my piano music on Moods: Piano Music by American Women Composers, a new CD available on North/South Recordings, along with works by Marilyn J. Ziffrin, Elizabeth Bell, and Rami Levin.
Also available online for streaming and download.
Released. Confluences-for orchestra on ERMMedia's new Millennium Project series, Made in the Americas, conducted by Robert Ian Winstin. 2-disc set now available at numusicdirect. Listen to an excerpt on the Recordings page or as featured on the Picture Gallery page at the Millennium Symphony website.
Released. Shredding Glass - for orchestra recorded with the Czech Philharmonic, conducted by Robert Ian Winstin, for ERMMedia's Masterworks of the New Era - Volume Twelve CD is now available at: ERMMedia
Released. Yet Still Night - a nocturne for orchestra recorded with the Czech Philharmonic, conducted by Robert Ian Winstin, on Masterworks of the New Era - Volume Eleven, by ERMMedia.
Now available, an archival solo piano performance recorded at Charlemagne Palestine's Tribeca loft. - romanticism on the edge of minimalism.
Check out a wonderful review by Poet Michael Lally.
The first of the archival solo piano concerts recorded at Charlemagne Palestine's loft. A collection of evocative pieces that are contemplative and sensuous, mesmerizing and haunting ? romanticism on the edge of minimalism
