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Stephen Estep, Composer (L-OH)
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XENIA, Ohio
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Member Since7/4/2007
Band Websitewww.clarinetsonatas.com
Band MembersStephen Estep Dayton Xenia Ohio
InfluencesDmitri Shostakovich, Christopher Rouse, Ludwig van Beethoven, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, John Corigliano, Edvard Grieg, Johann Sebastian Bach, Alexander Grechaninov, Sergei Rachmaninov, Sergei Prokofiev, John Adams, Paul Creston, John Luther Adams, Hugo Wolf, Charles Ives, William Byrd, John Harbison, Sir William Walton, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Robert Schumann, Claude Debussy, Nikolai Kapustin, Gustav Mahler, Franz Schubert, Maurice Ravel, Johannes Ockeghem, Guillaume Dufay, Rick Sowash
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Welcome to Stephen Estep's Classical Music MySpace /////////

Stephen Estep can be contacted at STOPgrinninglion@hotmail.comSPAM. Remove STOP and SPAM, of course.

I'm a pretty darn obscure classical composer, living in Xenia, Ohio, which is enough in itself to account for the obscurity. I have a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Piano Performance from Cedarville University (1997), and a mostly-done Master's of Music in the same from Miami University. I've been composing off and on since I was about 13. I studied composition privately at Miami with Dr C James Sheppard and Dr G Roger Davis. Other than that, I'm mostly self-taught, which may also account for my obscurity.

I hadn't composed anything since 2001, but my friend Matthew Walton asked me to write a piece for his Master's recital at Wright State University in the fall of 2007. So, "An Horror of Great Darkness" was written. I recently decided that "Horror" needed companion pieces, so it will be the center of my Abraham Triptych, along with "Between Bethel and Hai" and "God Hath Made Me to Laugh". Other projects include a possible Godless Killing Machines for tuba and piano...we'll see.

If you're interested in commissioning a piece, by all means, contact me. I'm more inclined to compose when I have a deadline and somebody to write for.

Thanks for the listens, and be sure to add me as a friend.

Photos /////////

Music /////////

Eleventh Hour - score available
Eleventh Hour is the third movement of my Sonata for Clarinet in A and Piano, Technical Difficulties. The sonata started life in 1994 as a theme and variations project, then morphed into a pretty lousy piano sonata in 1998. I rewrote it as a clarinet sonata in 1999 and 2000. The entire piece was premiered at Rice University in February, 2001, with Patrick Hanudel on clarinet and myself on the piano. This recording was made in 2000, before Patrick left Ohio to become the principal clarinet of the Tuscon Symphony Orchestra.

Eleventh Hour is the result of listening to too much Klezmer and Eastern European folk music (specifically Bulgarian) as a teenager.

For My Sister Shura
This is from a set of four songs for soprano and viola, on texts of Russian poet Sergei Yesenin, who drank himself to death in 1922. The songs have the most emotional depth of anything I've written so far. Once again, they're in need of a better performance. I also have to see about copyright clearance from the publishers before I can make the score available. One more project for this summer....

The Ass and the Flute
The second of what is currently known as 3 Songs without Good Words, for soprano, clarinet and piano. The first song in the set needs taken out and shot, because there will soon be a much better replacement for it. The performance isn't that great - the soprano had a lot of trouble with the rhythm. But, alas, this is the only recording I have. It really could use a better performance, hint hint. The text comes from a Boston newspaper, issued in the 1840's. The third of this set of songs is a setting of a letter from Beethoven to his younger brother, and it's quite a tasty piece also.

From Beethoven to his Younger Brother
Another from the 3 Songs without Good Words. This is sung a little better. I've got two versions of this song that I need to conflate for one final one. This one doesn't have the lovable Alexander Nevsky quote that the first one does. Although, I only noticed today, six years after I wrote it, that the clarinet quotes the first movement of my own clarinet sonata. I don't look as dumb as I am, naw shucks!

Passacaglia
This was originally written for clarinet and harp, but the harp player I wrote it for kind of wigged out on me. So it's only been played on piano. I composed this piece in 2000 for the International Clarinet Association composition competition. It didn't win, and rightfully so. It's a healthy, solid piece, if a little stodgy, but it's never going to draw any attention to itself. That said, it is still my child. Once again, Patrick Hanudel on clarinet and me on the piano.

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Music /////////

Dmitri Shostakovich
Christopher Rouse
Ludwig van Beethoven
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
Florence Foster Jenkins!!!
John Corigliano
Edvard Grieg
Johann Sebastian Bach
P.D.Q. Bach
Alexander Grechaninov
Sergei Rachmaninov
Sergei Prokofiev
John Adams
Paul Creston
John Luther Adams
Anna Russell
Hugo Wolf
Charles Ives
Meira Warshauer
William Byrd
Elly Ameling
John Harbison
Peter Schickele
Sir William Walton
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Robert Schumann
Claude Debussy
Nikolai Kapustin
Gustav Mahler
Franz Schubert
Maurice Ravel
Johannes Ockeghem
Guillaume Dufay
Rick Sowash

Sister Rosetta Tharpe
James Cleveland and the Angelic Singers
Mid South Boys
Sound Doctrine
The King's Messengers
The Abshire Family
The Dixie Hummingbirds
The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet
Blind Willie Johnson
Northern Bound
Mahaliah Jackson
Marion Williams
Hovie Lister and the Statesmen
The Song Masters
The Forbes Family
Marie Knight

Skip James
Blind Willie Johnson
Miles Davis
Nat "King" Cole
Robert Johnson
Tom Lehrer
Aretha Franklin
Reverend Gary Davis
Don Ellis
Holy Modal Rounders
Blind Boy Fuller
Spike Jones
Wilco
Art Tatum
Big Bill Broonzy
Bob Dylan
Van Dyke Parks
Tom Paxton
Vernon Dalhart
Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares
Varttina
Uncle Tupelo
Tannahill Weavers
Allan Sherman
The Beatles
Flying Burrito Brothers
Emmylou Harris
Janis Joplin
Bright Eyes
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Over the Rhine
Ben Ashman
Iron & Wine
Davy Spillane
Clannad
Chetes

Books & Magazines/////////

King James Bible
  (God)
A Walk Across America
  (Peter Jenkins)
The Gulag Archipelago
  (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Lolita
  (Vladimir Nabokov)
St Petersburg
  (Solomon Volkov)
Civility
  (Stephen L. Carter)
Within the Context of No Context
  (George W.S. Trow)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
   (Alexandr Solzhenitsyn)
A Lexicon of Musical Invective
  (Nicholas Slonimsky)
Parliament of Whores
  (P.J. O'Rourke)
Escape from Freedom
  (Erich Fromm)
The Act of Creation
  (Arthur Koestler);
In a Sunburned Land
  (Bill Bryson)
In Search of Schrodinger's Cat
  (John Gribbin)
The Innocents Abroad
  (Mark Twain)
Travels
   (Michael Crichton)
Roy Blakely books
  (Percy Keese Fitzhugh)
Poetry
  (Sergei Yesenin)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  (Douglas Adams)
The Road to Serfdom
  (Friedrich von Hayek)
War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
  (Chris Hedges)
I See by My Outfit
  (Peter S. Beagle)

Liberty
Reason
Gramophon
Dirty Linen
The Onion
Foreign Policy

Movies & TV /////////

Ulee's Gold
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Black Sheep (the zombie sheep one)
The Phantom of Liberty
Ponette
Monsoon Wedding
Pride and Prejudice (with Kiera Knightley)
No Country for Old Men
Cinema Paradiso
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Burnt by the Sun
Waking Life
Chillicothe
Top Secret
The General (Buster Keaton)
Shaun of the Dead
Resident Evil series
Death at a Funeral
Naked Gun series
The Comebacks
The Darjeeling Limited
Into Great Silence
Black (Sanjay Leela Bhansali)

MST3K
Scrubs
Dirty Jobs
Monty Python
Red Dwarf
Mr Bean
Red Green
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report

Likes & Dislikes /////////

Likes:
Grilled cheese sandwiches
Penguins
Record players
Nieces and newphews
Sarcasm
Reading
God
Quantum physics
Creativity
Fireflies
Thinking
Honesty
Long drives
Guns
Politics
Sophomoric humor
Chili dogs
Color
Silence
Solitude
Cheesecake
Lolrus
Homestar Runner
Neologisms
Women fixing their hair
Arms
Laughing
Chili dogs
Estonia
Spinners
Thanksgiving
Atonality
Cemeteries
My mom
Puns
The Kansas prairie
Orange juice
Public speaking
Trains
Mountain Dew
Charlie the Unicorn
Pun
Colorado
Reese's Pieces
Covered bridges
Lamb saag with garlic nan
Fireworks
Thunderstorms
Flatulence
Walking at night
Explosions
The Llama Song
Freedom
Bananaphone
Covered bridges

Dislikes:
Television
Bossy people
Telemann
Hairs on counters
Shaving
Your mom
Deception
Slow drivers
Hurrying
Tea
Humidity
Horses
Eating in the car
Insomnia
Tendonitis
Melons (any kind)
"Just friends"
Asymmetricality
Fingernails
Lists
Fame
Spider-Man 3
Serialism
Bad grammar
Censorship
The phrase, "the next level"
Bragging about ignorance
Failure
Walking through crowds
Whining

Blog ///////// view all entries

Click above to view all blogs, or click on a title to view the individual entry.

29-Dec-08: Boaz, my hero
And why the Bible isn't against interracial marriage

23-Dec-08: A Beatles analysis, and why "the hippies" were right about church

23-Dec-08: How Should We Then Love: You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
(Friends only)

12-Dec-08: How Should We Then Love: If You Love Me
(Se tu m'ami)

6-Dec-08: It Is Written
(friends only)

16-Nov-08: An adumbration...
Machiavelli vs Jesus

1-Nov-08: How to Fight Loneliness
Preferred list only.

28-Oct-08: Muslims, Mormons and bears, oh my!
Maybe we should give a wise Turk a chance. Too bad Obama is neither.

5-Jul-08: Abraham Triptych
An Horror of a Companion Piece

1-Jul-08: Hypocrisy
God, help us all

16-Jun-08: The pondering
The importance of idleness

11-Jun-08: A universe of hardship
A review of Prokofiev and Nadarejshvili string quartets

1-Jun-08: We'll call it Steve
Steve's a pretty name

21-May-08: A note about roses
The sweet ornament of truth

17-May-08: A note for spring
And all is as it should be

14-Apr-08: God, the jilted lover
And God is angry

7-Apr-08: Chipping away at American sovereignty
All bow before the mighty UN!

22-Mar-08: Men turn to dust and worms
How true this song turned out to be.

11-Mar-08: Hear George Bush sing!
Out-of-tune music, tasteless jokes, and more.

5-Mar-08: Culture wars or cultures wares
Why are we libertarians even messing with political office?

1-Mar-08: Black hair like a rainbow
A mushy song from a few years ago.

1-Mar-08: Is John McCain eligible to run for president?
He was not born in the US. What a legal muddle.

11-Feb-08: An important update.
Job changes, new directions, flus, etc.

10-Feb-08: And for this I am thankful.
When the doors of perception are cleansed, and why Tessa shouldn't cut my hair.

06-Jan-08: Looking back at the pillar of salt.
New Years, cliches, and other modes of expected behavior.

28-Dec-07: It changed me (part 3)
The book of Ruth, part 1. A study of Boaz's character.

13-Dec-07: It changed me (part 2)
Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago, and the love of liberty it gave me.

18-Nov-07: It changed me (part 1)
An introduction to my favorite books, and why you should read.

7-Nov-07: "Great Darkness" premiere!
Nov 15: Darkness, requiems, mohawks and outlandish suits.

29-Oct-07: I wish I could stay up all night and read
Maybe the world needs boring music....

12-Sep-07: Premiere!
"An Horror of a Great Darkness" premieres November 15 at Wright State University....

7-Sep-07: Video of the week
Greg Anderson plays Ligeti's The Devil's Staircase. Disgustingly amazing.

5-Sep-07: I'm a real composer now
And I always look bloated and stoned in pictures. :-(

1-Sep-07: Where it's at
This is it. This is what I'm called to do.

27-Aug-07: Stephen Estep is one year older
And some thoughts on emotions and composing (the loneliest art).

21-Aug-07: Clarinet Sonata sheet music ready!
Yes, sheet music for my clarinet sonata is finally ready. And a bit of opinion on Clementi.

11-Aug-07: The a-maze-ing Ernest Chausson
I learned today how Chausson died, and I made something in his honor.

7-Aug-07: New tunes uploaded
Eleventh Hour, live at the premiere, and Passacaglia for clarinet and piano are now uploaded.

1-Aug-07: Piccolo and string quartet
So last night, under the influence of Nyquil, I sketched some ideas for a piece for piccolo and string quartet.

28-Jul-07: Next projects
"Doleful Creatures" for piccolo and something else? Song cycles? "Godless Killing Machines" for tuba and piano?

13-Jul-07: My music in a film?!
I just got an email today from a fellow in England enquiring about using some of my music in a film.

11-Jul-07: "Darkness" score sneak preview
Here are pages 3 and 4, for your visual enjoyment. The piece will have palm clusters, pedal stomps, glissandos on the strings, and other good stuff. At the end, the pianist is required to stick his head inside the piano and drop the lid on it.

8-Jul-07: "An Horror of a Great Darkness" is finished
Today, I finished my first real solo piano piece ever, "An Horror of a Great Darkness".

6-Jul-07: A new MySpace for Stephen Estep's music
My classical music is finally here, with a snappy new layout.
No, I won't do all the work for you to get your page to look like mine :-P

Scores /////////

Scores to my music will be made available as I'm able to get them finished. You can order them directly from me: Email me at grinninglion [at] hotmail [dot] com. I accept PayPal at that address, Western Union, and USPS money orders.

Technical Difficulties (Sonata for Clarinet in A and Piano)
Printed copies: $20, which includes postage in the US and Canada.
PDF files via email: $10.

An Horror of a Great Darkness (Piano Solo - manuscript copy)
Printed copies: $15, which includes postage in the US and Canada.
PDF files via email: $8.

More scores are on their way...

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Nov 29 2009 6:46 PM

Well, excuse the delay. You can call me at 1 829 342 8892 and so I can give you more information on how get it because it is really hard being outside the country. God bless you more. await your call. carefully: the administration. happy to serve you.
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Nov 29 2009 6:45 PM

mr. E. man i miss choir so much.
how are you?
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Jul 14 2009 4:51 AM

cute Pictures, Images and Photos
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Jul 14 2009 4:54 AM

CUTE Pictures, Images and Photos
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Jun 15 2009 7:57 PM

Thank you for the text messages while I was in TN. Wish I could have had a little time and phone service to spend with you. Haven't even thought much about kidneys - beans or otherwise :) Keenly focused on my husband for now. That works.
Cheryl

Cheryl



Jun 5 2009 7:31 PM

Yeah... I'm in a bad word mood. Now I chuckled after learning you chuckled.
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May 26 2009 7:43 PM

Thank you my dear friend.
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~Crystal~



May 21 2009 6:24 PM

Hello back! Yes, I do have a facebook - Crystal Reem. How are things going?
Cheryl

Cheryl



May 21 2009 7:20 PM

Hey yourself. I posted a bulletin on here a couple weeks ago asking everyone to tell me about facebook, but not one person responded at all. So, I just assumed I should forget it. My husband says I can't have both... By the way, are you doing okay? I think about you every day as I pray through my list.
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jess



May 21 2009 10:10 PM

yea i think we would really just need one at the actual wedding ceremony, but i'll get back to you when i start planning ha.
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May 22 2009 3:02 AM

dentists. Pictures, Images and Photos
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jess



May 20 2009 12:24 PM

Thanks! well its not gonna be for about a year or so..what do you charge?
PURI

PURI



May 14 2009 11:41 PM

thanx, amigo! your prayers are always greatly appreciated :-)
Cheryl

Cheryl



May 13 2009 6:26 PM

Ha! Ha! Ha! Good one.
Cheryl

Cheryl



May 12 2009 1:57 PM

Sorry I didn't get back to you. Steven has some muscle strains in his torso from working in the active blast zone. Has to wear a brace, can't lift over 25 pounds, light duty and so on for a couple weeks. Has to follow up with a cardiologist for some other symptoms that started with the injury but can't be explained. I'm nervous about that. You know, I really appreciate you so much. I should tell you that more often.
Cheryl

Cheryl



May 8 2009 12:56 PM

What cha been up to lately?
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May 3 2009 7:59 AM

Hi Stephen, thanx for the add!
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Apr 30 2009 11:12 PM

Who needs a banana phone when you have a watermelon phone?!

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Apr 24 2009 4:45 AM

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Apr 19 2009 2:36 PM

How are you today?
Cheryl

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Apr 17 2009 1:27 PM

Thank you so much! Maybe some warm sunshine will help everyone feel good - NOT. Doesn't matter what the weather is, it's outside.
:)
Cheryl

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Apr 14 2009 11:19 PM

Curl up as long as you need to. I understand that. But don't die. I would really, really hate that! I love my friend too much.
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Apr 13 2009 2:20 PM

Why do brothers antagonize eachother relentlessly (always when daddy is gone), but then snuggle together when the little one wakes up crying with a bad dream???? I'm so confused..... Sorry I didn't get back to you last night. How is today going for you so far? I prayed for you early this morning - as always.
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Apr 1 2009 8:02 PM

Just checking up on you.
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Mar 31 2009 3:02 AM

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