Double Happiness, by Christopher Cerrone

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“Double Happiness”
Composed by: Christopher Cerrone
Performed by: Sean McFarland & Evan Chapman
Video/Audio: Four/Ten Media
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Evan Chapman Vic Firth Artist Page:
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ABOUT THE PIECE:
“Double Happiness”
Double Happiness was written in the fall of 2012. While the piece was composed in New York, much of the piece was inspired by a summer spent in Italy while I was a fellow at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation’s castle in Umbria. I spent a lot of my time in Italy collecting field recordings of the Italian countryside, the sounds of church bells, train stations, and rainstorms. All of these sounds eventually found their way into Double Happiness as I constructed an emotional narrative around the sounds I experienced.
The piece consists of three larger movements connected by two (almost) identical interludes. The first movement, “Self Portrait, Part I,” explores the simple repetition of four simple notes, obsessive in their melancholy. The detuned guitar, plays only harmonics, while the vibraphone always plays gently sustained notes; both are paired with ambient noises and simple sustaining electronics (hovering in and around the pitches) that further maintain the mood. The movement ends on an optimistic note as the four repeated notes slowly transform into a downward moving chorale that leads inexorably to a celebratory D major chord.
FULL DESCRIPTION HERE: www.christophercerrone.com/dou...
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ABOUT THE COMPOSER:
Christopher Cerrone
Winner of a 2015 Rome Prize and a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize, the Brooklyn-based composer Christopher Cerrone is internationally acclaimed for music which ranges from opera to orchestral, from chamber music to electronic. Throughout, his music is characterized by a subtle handling of timbre and resonance, a deep literary fluency, and a flair for multimedia collaborations.
In the current season, Cerrone has world premieres with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (for Jeffrey Kahane’s final concert as LACO Music Director), the Calder Quartet at the Broad Stage; Third Coast Percussion and Rachel Calloway for the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at the University of Notre Dame; and an electroacoustic work for flutist Tim Munro at Miller Theatre.
FULL BIO HERE: www.christophercerrone.com/bio/
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ABOUT THE PERFORMERS:
EVAN CHAPMAN:
www.evanmchapman.com
Evan Chapman is a percussionist, videographer, videographer, and teacher based out of Philadelphia, PA. Evan received a Bachelor of Music in Classical Percussion Performance from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 2013, and has since gone on to build a freelance career in both the contemporary-classical and indie rock worlds.
Evan is an active performer, most notably as co-founder and drummer in the instrumental percussion rock/electronic trio Square Peg Round Hole. The group’s debut album, Corners, was met with critical acclaim after its 2013 release. Since then, the group has performed concerts and festivals with major-label artists including Mae, Built to Spill, Lily & Madeleine, The Album Leaf, RJD2, Dawn of MIDI, Kneebody, and more, and has played at major venues across the country including the Electric Factory (Philadelphia), World Café Live (Philadelphia), Old National Centre (Indianapolis), Le Poisson Rouge (NYC), and the Treefort Music Festival (Boise).
SEAN MCFARLAND:
www.seanmcfarlandmusic.com
Sean McFarland (b. 1991) is a composer from Baltimore, MD that writes music dealing with the human experience. He has studied under a wide variety of composers including Stuart Saunders Smith, Linda Dusman, Roger Reynolds, and Ian Power. An avid collaborator, Sean has previously created works with The Atlas Composer’s Collective and Rhymes With Opera, in addition to writing multiple pieces for dance. He has also written for some of America’s most distinguished performers, including Gleb Kanasevich and the JACK Quartet.
Outside of composing, Sean is an eccentric multidisciplinary guitarist who performs everything from African praise music to free improvisation, while maintaining a private studio of students. Thoroughly entrenched in the DIY ethic, Sean works with Carriage House, Charm City Art Space, and other organizations to promote and preserve independent music in Baltimore. Most recently, he completed “Here” for wind ensemble and playback as part of the Wiley H. Bates Middle School Teaching Artist Residency.