Excitingly, I've ventured into creating videos for my music.
Just posted two hot-off-the-press-newly-created versions of videos set to an audio excerpt of my piece, Shredding Glass - for orchestra.
The first, is a video of my photo images set to Shredding Glass on YouTube.
The second is a Composer Portrait version on YouTube set to Shredding Glass, where I've come from, where I've been...
Hope you'll take a look/listen, post a comment, enjoy.
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 scheduled for early 2010.
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 to present a special Women Composers Concert.
Saturday, February 14, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. 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
