A mixture of high and low art passed through my own filter of criticism. Alan Jackson, All My Children, Avail, Michael Daugherty, David Lee Roth, Debussy, Eazy E, Haydn, Ives, Aaron Jay Kernis, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Ligeti, Lutoslawski, James MacMillan, NASCAR, Palestrina, Penderecki, Rascal Flatts, Steve Reich, Ed Ruscha, Joseph Schwantner, Slayer, Stravinsky, Michael Torke, Luther Vandross, John Waters.
Sounds Like
Whatever three or four months of hard work produces.
James Barry composes music drawn from a unique amalgam of high and low art. Early influences include playing in and writing songs for metal, rock, and punk bands followed by rigorous academic compositional training. The end product is an immediate, intelligent, colorful, original, dramatic brand of contemporary music. His music has been the recipient of numerous awards and performances including: the 2001 Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ASCAP, Meet The Composer, the SCI/ASCAP Student Composition Commission, the American Music Center, The Commission Project (Rochester, NY), the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Society for New Music (Syracuse, NY), the Chicago Ensemble (Chicago, IL), the Auros Group for New Music (Boston, MA), the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (San Francisco, CA), the Sirius String Quartet (NYC), the Reizen Ensemble (NYC), the Esterhazy Quartet, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra's Fresh Ink, the Tallahassee Symphony Youth Orchestra, and the Sacramento Youth Symphony among others. James is artistic director and managing director of the New York City based new music group Forecast Music.
Almost B-Day time for you. Mine feels like three years ago already. Hope to catch up soon. Hope you come down and see little Grace Anne soon. Although I'm gonna be long gone for a couple months as usual.
