So, first a reminder:

* March 26, 2009, noon: Nuevos Misterios (slightly truncated), performed by Flying Forms, at the Schubert Club Courtroom concerts in St. Paul, Minnesota. That’s in Courtroom 317 of the Landmark Center in downtown St. Paul, 75 West 5th Street.
* March 29, 2009, 4pm: Nuevos Misterios, performed by Flying Forms, at House of Hope Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. House of Hope is at 797 Summit Avenue. map!

Rehearsals are going nicely, and the electronics are coming along…

Second, Marc, Tami, and I will be on the radio on Friday! We’ve been asked on Minnesota Public Radio Classical’s afternoon show with Steve Staruch. We’ll be on sometime between 3 and 5 pm.

If you’re in the great state of MN, you can find the station to listen to here. If you’re not, you can listen online.

Do motives that gain their power from a tonal context work in a mostly-atonal setting?

I’m onto the second straight piece in which I have to confront that question.

The opening bars of Omie Speaks go like this:

(listen here)

See that A-sharp in the first chord and that A-natural in a different voice in the second? (a voice is defined by its left-to-right motion and how high it is) That’s called a cross-relation. (more…)