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| Bigfoot inspires the higher classical arts |
Recently Kevin Jay Isaacs, a professor of music and music education at Western Connecticut State University, has earned an Award of Merit in composition from the Global Music Association.
His work, inspired by the Sasquatch, is a four-movement composition called "Skookum Suite Op. 112."
You can listen to a tease of each of the movements below. through each movement you can hear a story about a Sasquatch, or more specifically a Skookum who becomes "mad, sad and glad" as he is discovered by humans, escapes, and finds true love.
The Global Music Association is a top-tier music competition based in California that honors talented musicians around the world.
Isaacs teaches theory, composition and choral studies. His award-winning piece is one of several WestConn contributions to "Mad Dances: American Music for Saxophone and Piano," an album of contemporary compositions that Albany Records released last year.
SRC: NewsTimes
if you would like to buy any of these pieces below you can find the album, Mad Dances: American Music for Saxophone and Piano available at Amazon.com
if you would like to buy any of these pieces below you can find the album, Mad Dances: American Music for Saxophone and Piano available at Amazon.com
Damn Guy, I love this post. Freakin' awesome!
ReplyDeleteThis guy has listened to his Zappa. Good stuff!
ReplyDeleteI must be hearing something completely different. It sounds more like this:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4Kgzn3tDQU
It sounds nothing like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux8ED6cdNYw