Audio and Video – New! SoundCloud Music

In March of 2022 my work Evening in the Antiworld was premiered at the University of Northern Iowa New Music Festival. The work is a setting of the poem “Palindrome” by Lisel Mueller and is scored for violin, piano and mezzo soprano. The premiere was performed by my colleagues Michelle Monroe (sop), Sang Koh (vln) and Vakhtang Kodonashvili (pno).

In March 2020 The University of Northern Iowa Symphony Orchestra (under the baton of Dr. Rebecca Burkhardt) premiered my new work Cloudscape Morning Glory. This work is a short tone poem, referring to the Morning Glory Cloud. https://soundcloud.com/jonathan-schwabe/cloudscape-morning-glory

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The Ecchoing Green (Blake) for soprano (Michelle Monroe) oboe (Heather Peyton) and piano (Vakhtang Kodanashvilli) My dear colleagues at UNI!
Chamber Symphony (excerpt) Magnetic South Chamber Orchestra, Yiorgos Vassilandonakis, conductor

The Hands of Time (jazz quartet); my UNI colleagues Chris Merz (sax), Bob Dunn (gtr) and Dennis Johnson (drums) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vK_Uq-rHXE&t=302s

This is a setting of a poem by Baudelaire “Sorrows of the Moon” featuring UNI Jazz I under the direction of Chris Merz, and UNI Concert Chorale under the direction of John Wiles.

New additions to my music library on SoundCloud. Enjoy!

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New and Improved Giant Sleighs; a synthesized version, a tongue-in-cheek mashup of Coltrane’s Giant Steps and Anderson’s Sleigh Ride (mostly for fun)

Tea Time for Scallywags – for piano (actually realized on disklavier)

Cloudscape Morning Glory– for orchestra, UNI Symphony, Rebecca Burkhardt conducting

To Those Who’ve Failed in Aspirations Vast (Whitman) Jeff Brich tenor with UNI Symphony, Rebecca Burkhardt conducting

Original Giant Sleighs– synthesized piano