[{"content":"","date":"2017","permalink":"/tags/acoustic/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"acoustic"},{"content":"","date":"2017","permalink":"/tags/bahai/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Baha'i"},{"content":"For the future, I have plans to cut this concert up into chunks, separating the songs from the narrated sections. In the meantime here is the entire concert, start to finish. All 90 minutes.\n(Notes below are identical to the notes for the youtube video. Why paraphrase myself?)\nThis concert consists of (1) songs for soprano and chamber orchestra, and (2) narrated stories with musical accompaniment. The majority of the concert (Part One and Part Two) features the narration, while the songs occur at the beginning, middle, and end.\nThese compositions were commissioned by the Baha\u0026rsquo;is of Champaign County for the Bicentenary of the Birth of Bahá\u0026rsquo;u\u0026rsquo;lláh. The concert took place on October 22nd, 2017 at Foellinger Auditorium on the University of Illinois campus in Urbana, Illinois.\nOpening: (00:00)\n00:15 - Song - O Night\n07:22 - Song - Midnight Prayer\nPart One - The Primal Point: (13:00)\nThe Báb as a child\n13:05 - The Báb as a child - Chanting a Prayer\n14:21 - The School Teacher\n15:26 - The Uncle\u0026rsquo;s Dream\nThe Wife of The Báb\n17:26 - The Wife of The Báb - Midnight\n20:52 - At the Breakfast Table\n23:56 - First Disciples - The Letters of the Living\nThe Governor\u0026rsquo;s Plan\n26:29 - The Governor\u0026rsquo;s Plan\n28:42 - Cholera\n31:11 - Banishment\n32:43 - One Greater Than Himself Will Come\n33:53 - Baháʼu\u0026rsquo;lláh - Champion of The Báb\nIntermezzo: (37:38)\n37:58 - Song: I Beg Thee\nPart Two - Baha: (42:19)\nBaháʼu\u0026rsquo;lláh as a child\n42:22 - Dream of the Fish\n44:37 - Dream of the Fish - The Soothsayer\nArrested\n47:26 - Arrested\n49:31 - Torture \u0026amp; March to Tehran\n52:33 - Arrival in Tehran \u0026amp; The Black Pit\nSiyah Chal\n55:12 - Siyah Chal - The Prisoner\u0026rsquo;s Dream\n58:37 - The Maid of Heaven\n1:01:55 - \u0026lsquo;This\u0026rsquo;\nFour Times Exiled\n1:05:22 - Four Times Exiled\n1:06:38 - Akka - The Most Great Prison\nHappiness\n1:07:23 - \u0026lsquo;Abdu\u0026rsquo;l-Bahá [Happiness]\n1:07:47 - Arrival in Akka [Happiness]\n1:08:16 - Bahíyyih Khánum [Happiness]\n1:08:43 - \u0026lsquo;Abdu\u0026rsquo;l-Bahá [Happiness]\n1:11:24 - Professor E.G. Browne\n1:13:26 - A Mighty Day\n1:15:29 - Our High Destiny\nConclusion: (1:18:20)\n1:18:35 - Song: Birthday Festival\nSoprano - Wendy Marck\nNarrators - Katherine Bokenkamp \u0026amp; Scott Walters\nFlute - Matthew Reeder\nClarinet - Moria Tunison\nHorn - Carly Charles\nViolin 1 - Alex Malaimare\nViolin 2 - Rebin Ali\nViola - Yoobin Lee\nCello - Kayla Schoeny\nPiano - Alex Munger (narrated sections, including \u0026lsquo;This\u0026rsquo; with Wendy Marck)\nHalim Beere (songs: O Night, Midnight Prayer, I Beg Thee, \u0026amp; Birthday Festival)\nRecording Edited \u0026amp; Mixed \u0026amp; Mastered by Connor Criswell\nAdditional Editing by Halim Beere\nComposed and Conducted by Halim Beere\nLyrics: # O Night - a tablet of Bahá\u0026rsquo;u\u0026rsquo;lláh about The Báb\nMidnight Prayer - a prayer by \u0026lsquo;Abdu\u0026rsquo;l-Bahá\nI Beg Thee - a prayer by The Báb\nBirthday Festival - a tablet of Bahá\u0026rsquo;u\u0026rsquo;lláh\nNarration: # Most of the narrated text is taken directly from various histories and sources. Some of the text is original, but nearly all of it is quoted or paraphrased from (1) Release the Sun by William Sears, (2) The Story of Baha’u’llah by Druzelle Cederquist, (3) The Dawnbreakers by Nabíl-i-Aʻzam, (4) God Passes By by Shoghi Effendi, and (5) some pilgrim accounts found on www.bahai-library.org and baha’i blogs.\nImages: # All images are from media.bahai.org.\nExcept the portrait of Professor E.G. Browne, which is public domain and obtained from Wikipedia (through Wikimedia Commons).\n","date":"2017","permalink":"/compositions/bicentenary-concert/","section":"Compositions","summary":"Chamber orchestra, soprano, and narrators","title":"Baha'i Bicentenary Concert"},{"content":"","date":"2017","permalink":"/tags/compositions/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"compositions"},{"content":"Welcome to my Compositions page. Here you can find information about my musical compositions.\n","date":"2017","permalink":"/compositions/","section":"Compositions","summary":"Welcome to my Compositions page.","title":"Compositions"},{"content":"","date":"2017","permalink":"/","section":"Halim Beere [.com]","summary":"","title":"Halim Beere [.com]"},{"content":"","date":"2017","permalink":"/tags/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Tags"},{"content":"","date":"2014","permalink":"/tags/electro-acoustic/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"electro-acoustic"},{"content":"Commissioned by Yi-Wen Chen while I was a DMA student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Yi-Wen performed this while listening to a click track to stay in sync with the fixed media recording. The fixed media was created with a combination of sampling and audio synthesis with a heavy dose of audio processing, and combined and mixed in Pro Tools. Much of the processing and many of the sounds were created with Supercollider or Common Music.\nKingdom of Names, Mixed Here\u0026rsquo;s the pdf of the sheet music:\n","date":"2014","permalink":"/compositions/kingdom-of-names/","section":"Compositions","summary":"Bb Clarinet and Fixed Media","title":"Kingdom of Names"},{"content":"I composed this piece for my daughter, Roya, when I first became a father. Here she is:\nRoya And here\u0026rsquo;s a youtube video of the piece. I used the Common Music to algorithmically generate many sections of the music, then manually altered them after the fact, knitting many sections together. ","date":"2013","permalink":"/compositions/roya/","section":"Compositions","summary":"Saxophone Duet - Alto and Soprano","title":"Roya"},{"content":"Carol Jacobson has known me since I was \u0026hellip; geez, in 7th or 8th grade? I played under baton in youth orchestra, chamber orchestra, Sequoia summer chamber music camp, etc \u0026hellip; and all my first attempts at composition were for the chamber string groups I played in, which she led. She made sure these pieces got played, which was so thrilling for me. I must credit my path as a composer to her support and encouragement.\nCarol commissioned Gambol for Orchestra for the ArMac Orchestra (Arcata/McKinleyville High School Orchestra) in 2008. This video follows the score and the audio is from a performance in Carnegie Hall. This video is from a performance in May 2009. I was in the midst of my Masters degree in Illinois at the time and had flown back to California to see this. It was my first time hearing it performed; you can see me come up on stage and bow at the end of the performance. Download a zip file of all parts and the full score. ","date":"2009","permalink":"/compositions/gambol/","section":"Compositions","summary":"Full Orchestra","title":"Gambol for Orchestra"},{"content":"I accidentally mispelled this piece, wanting to call it Octagon, but spelling Octogon on several programs before realizing my mistake. I then changed the title to \u0026ldquo;octOgon\u0026rdquo; to make it look intentional. Nobody was ever fooled.\nI also wanted to write 8 movements initially, but never could get that much music written. So it goes.\nHere is a video to the 4th movement, Vehemently. This is probably the best movement of the four, and good thing, cause it ends the entire quartet.\nIn the video below, the music starts around 2'40\u0026quot;. It begins with me yabbering about the piece, so you can skip that part.\nHere\u0026rsquo;s the score of only this movement, IV. Upcoming I\u0026rsquo;ll make a page for the whole quartet, with all of the other movements. Youtube is a hassle to stream on phones \u0026hellip; so stream the piece as audio below. The talking has been excised.\noctOgon, mov 4 (Original aif file here)\n","date":"2007","permalink":"/compositions/octogon/","section":"Compositions","summary":"String Quartet","title":"octOgon - IV: Vehemently"},{"content":"The three movements are titled:\n\u0026ldquo;Ice\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;Calm\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;Arrival\u0026rdquo; The performance here is of myself on violin and the amazing pianist, John Chernoff. John, incidentally, was hired as staff accompanist at the Humboldt State University (currently called Cal Poly Humboldt in 2024) while I was completing my undergraduate studies there. It was apparent to everyone that our school was unreasonably blessed to have him, as his skills on the piano were simply astounding. I think every student composer was suddenly inspired to write as virtuosically as possible, because it didn\u0026rsquo;t seem to matter what was set in front of him: he wouldn\u0026rsquo;t just play it \u0026hellip; he would sightread it, and beautifully.\nWriting this now, on September 30th, 2024, I looked up John Chernoff as I thought he was still at Humboldt. Indeed, as recently as this year I found information about him \u0026hellip; and yet he is no longer listed as a staff member. If he indeed left Humboldt, it would be an end of an incredible era.\nThis recording is from my undergraduate senior violin recital on 12/12/2006.\nWrong of Winter Here\u0026rsquo;s the piano score:\n","date":"2006","permalink":"/compositions/wrong-of-winter/","section":"Compositions","summary":"Violin and Piano","title":"Wrong of Winter"},{"content":"","date":"0001","permalink":"/authors/","section":"Authors","summary":"","title":"Authors"},{"content":"","date":"0001","permalink":"/categories/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Categories"},{"content":"Sometimes I code something just for fun, or a vaguely useful tool. If I upload them to this website, I\u0026rsquo;ll put links to them here.\nWavy Staff Tool Memorize Tool ","date":"0001","permalink":"/miscellany/","section":"Halim Beere [.com]","summary":"Sometimes I code something just for fun, or a vaguely useful tool.","title":"Miscellany"},{"content":"","date":"0001","permalink":"/series/","section":"Series","summary":"","title":"Series"}]