"Morning Sides" by Tim Jansa now available to view on YouTube!

Hello Friends and Supporters!

Happy New Year! With the new year comes new goals. . . one of them being MORE BLOG POSTS! For my first post of the year, I thought I'd share our newest YouTube video which features us performing Tim Jansa's "Morning Sides."

I met Tim during the Fall of 2009 where I was involved in the premiere of his "Prelude to a Serenade," a charming chamber piece written for winds and strings.  After the rehearsal and performance I was hooked on Tim's work.  Wonderfully "easy on the ears," as my Dad would say, it also has a complexity of harmony and melody that keeps both the performer and listener engaged.  

In the Spring of 2009 I approached Tim about composing a piece for Morningside Chamber Musicians.  Happily, he was amenable and we began discussing the project in detail.  I was interested in a piece that reflected the historical compositional style of woodwind trio music (mainly that of French composers from the 1930's through the 1950's) yet also had a fresh approach that remained accessible to the audience.  We also tossed around the idea of a piece that evoked images from different areas or sides of Atlanta.  Tim delivered! The final product is a three movement work that displays several "sides" of Atlanta: The City, The Arts and The Gardens.  

Here are the notes about "Morning Sides" from Tim: "The work's title plays on the name of the Morningside neighborhood in Atlanta--a green, cultured and rather affluent part of the inner city, and namesake of the commissioning ensemble.

Three compact movements attempt to capture the main aspects of the neighborhood: its location near Midtown Atlanta with all its hustle and bustle, restaurants, public spaces -- and traffic, as can easily be heard in the first movement; the cultured and, on occasion, somewhat highbrow arts scene portrayed in a fun, tongue-in-cheek way; and finally the beautiful and peaceful gardens and parks that surround many of the Morningside residences ... including birds chirping in the old trees."

We have truly enjoyed this work and hope that you do as well!  More information about Tim Jansa can be found at http://www.timjansa.com/   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfcXP92AuFw