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i actually think listening to my sister play progessive rock on drums all day is what's making my music really percussive.

i have music playing in my head 24/7, but it all sucks

in my standards... best to me would be Chopin. Chopin has always been the "piano" composer to me. i could go on and on about why i picked him but you all probably know why... Rachmaninoff comes in second. other than that, I feel obligated to mention Kaikhosru Sorabji and Frederic Rzewski. Their music isn't as accessible as Chopin (or maybe even Prokofiev) but the technique, tone, and intellect required to play their music makes them stand out to me out of anyone. samuel barber's solo works, songs, and his concerto are all intesnse and strikingly beautiful. franz liszt, marc-andre hamelin, leopold godowsky, georges cziffra, and arcadi volodos have written some of the most virtuosic and imaginative transcriptions I have ever heard. Gyorgy Ligeti's piano etudes are gut wrenchingly complex and highly innovative. Leo Ornstein's earlier works are always fun to play when you really want to beat the scraggy out of someone. I always prefer a Nikolai Kapustin piece to be an encore being that he's very technically demanding and it appeals to everyone at a concert who was kind of dragged along even though they aren't into classical music. Arensky has written powerful works in the piano duo repertoire. Last but not least, i'm going to mention Ravel, because I love him

if it weren't for sondheim, i probably wouldn't be remotely interested in broadway...

i think i need more coffee

umm.... do it? then you can get selected too

thanks for the in depth analysis serge! in response to your comment about the chromatic glissando and how it sounds on the midi, i really didn't intend it to sound this way in the first place since i composed this acoustically. as for the overall difficulty of the piece, i tried this all out myself and i admit, it's a bit draining.

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thanks berlioz I actually had a lot of trouble figuring out a title haha. and i'm all ghetto and used anvil studio to make the midi. if i had an .mus file i wouldn't have bothered notating this by hand lol plus i just noticed i left out 2 pages while scanning

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The first piece from my set of Grand Dances. written for two pianos. sorry for the sloppiness of the score. i dont own any fancy notation programs and because of the complexity of the writing, I had to settle with my hands Trance Macabre

I've been gone for awhile due to recent sickness. Sorry about that. i've also had a lot of bull regarding college applications which ended up not working anyway. i'll post the loads of music i wrote later. for now, here's my intro to electronic music project. It was written for vocal ensemble and string quartet but my stupid professor changed everything to brass. i'll put the score later Dashing Through the Snow arrangement

Written as King Creon's entrance for a production of Antigone done last year. The notation file was lost, i can't provide the score Creon March

written for moliere's The Love Doctor The Love Doctor: Humoresque

i did search google and it gave me all these programs saying they were the real deal but i would get on two days later and it would say my trial has expired. but thanks anyway