ted hearne: Archive

Dec 21st

PARLOR DIPLOMACY i’m really excited to have...

Aug 22nd

here is a preview of my new project with Philip...

Mar 13th

collab

for the last few days i’ve been camped out at a cabin in gorgeous snow-covered barnard, vermont with my friend and fellow composer philip white. we’re spending our nights cooking steak and drinking bourbon — but our days are spent collaborating on a new piece we are writing and performing together. it’s been totally invigorating. i’ve never been a part of such a...

Feb 18th

Feb 12th

Watch

BARBARA BUSH: 9.5.05 a new film from SATAN’S PEARL HORSES from Katrina Ballads performed by Abby Fischer

Aug 18th

here is something i’m working on ...

Aug 16th

Watch

Interlude 1 from Katrina Ballads film by Bill Morrison Katrina Ballads CD Release Performance - August 24th at (le) Poisson Rouge

Aug 12th

Watch

Jacob Cooper’s COMMENCER UNE AUTRE MORT. i love it.

Jun 25th

Jun 8th

We Cannot Leave here’s another movement...

Jun 2nd

1 note

They Get It this is a movement from my new choral...

May 28th

is it dirty

I’m up in Albany all week, and if anyone has any suggestions about something to do that is not eating bar food and drinking a lot of beer - which i think i’ve mastered - I’d be happy to hear them. Friday’s concert with The Dogs of Desire (a chamber ensemble from the Albany Symphony) will feature the premiere on my piece Is it dirty, along with new music by Todd Reynolds,...

May 18th

Volti performs this weekend

i’ve been out here in beautiful San Francisco all week, running along the ocean, working/procrastinating in many fine coffeeshops, considering the pluses (always smells good) and minuses (fog) of living here… and my piece PRIVILEGE will be premiered tonight by the vocal ensemble Volti. Volti is the kind of choir i always hoped existed but until now had never encountered. a group of...

May 14th

vigeland's influence

This tuesday, Red Light New Music will present a concert at Symphony Space - Nils Vigeland at 60. i’m really looking forward to this show, partially because it will feel good to tributize a teacher that means a lot to a lot of people, but also because it will be a really fitting 5th anniversary celebration for Red Light. Nils Vigeland is a legend at MSM; an impassioned advocated of...

May 1st

Jan 17th

have yourself a merry little christmas i arranged...

Dec 14th

interview in CompositionToday →

just had a new interview posted on this website Composition Today. answering with the old political music question, always a good time, always a good time…

Oct 21st

from the margins, this, unmentioned

thursday, friday and saturday i’m conducting FROM THE MARGINS, THIS, UNMENTIONED - a ballet composed by my good friend Bryan Senti. the brilliant choreographer Bronwen MacArthur has put crafted some sultry and extremely athletic moves with her team of dancers, and some sick video installation from Kohta Asakura, Jimmy Sakai and Nikolai Antonie. we have had some long and rewarding rehearsals...

Oct 15th

wish every weekend could be a carlsbad weekend

i just got to Southern California for a weekend at the Carlsbad Music Festival. I was warmly greeted by Matt McBane, the festival’s creator and artistic director, who within five minutes of my arrival had picked for me, from his very own orchard, what must be the most delicious and succulent fig i have ever had the privilege to taste. really nice. the festival kicked off last night with a...

Sep 25th

indulged in a decadent visit to the pancake...

Katrina Ballads won the Gaudeamus Prize last night! this announcement, coming at the end of a nearly 3-hour orchestral concert, was not only a massive honor, but also came with some pretty overwhelming shock, causing me to, immediately after receiving the news, lumber around the crowded lobby in uncontrolled spasmic jolts. after no more than three minutes of this i managed to knock a few full...

Sep 14th

Sep 12th

Igra sudjaja by Drasko Adzic ==> the...

Sep 10th

Sep 9th

1 note

first rehearsal at Gaudeamus

i arrived in Amsterdam on monday, and will be here until sunday, participating in the 2009 Gaudeamus Festival. there are 14 of us composers under 30 competing for the top prize, but along with all our nominated works is lots of music from all over the world. there are 3 concerts a day - and, this being holland, the general public seems to give a shit! (or, at least there have been sizable...

Sep 9th

Sep 4th

Sep 1st

katrina ballads broadcast on WRIU tomorrow →

if you get a chance, listen in to a broadcast of Katrina Ballads, in full, tomorrow at 11am. based out of providence, justin brierley has been playing a lot of young composers’ stuff on his show “music for internets” up at WRIU.

Aug 26th

the nine eyes →

Aug 13th

Timberbrit story on All Things Considered →

mellissa and i are interviewed on this story from NPR’s All Things Considered, which aired today. the link also has great pictures of Mel looking hot at a photo shoot.

Aug 5th

i am deep in trumpet land, working on a piece for...

Jul 2nd

ethan and tim at the stone

my friend taylor always inadvertently refers to the musicians he loves by their first names. i love that - it’s like once he feels where they’re coming from, that’s an intimate enough experience to be on a first-name basis. i went with nathan and dan vezza (thankfully back from germany for a few months) to see ethan iverson and tim berne at the stone tonight. of course...

Jun 27th

hard work, worth it

In the midst of our first tour, Your Bad Self just played a show at the 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia. we had a full house and really supportive audience - and whoa, we totally need a manager. or at least a roadie. (many many public props to nathan and ron for lugging all their gear everywhere and then setting it up.) every time i think i’m not a logistical mess i realize that...

Jun 7th

May 27th

Red Light at Kennedy Center tonight

first, it must be noted that i am making this post from a bus with free wifi! ladies and gentlemen, a BUS. with WIRELESS INTERNET. woot. also i should say that i have completed the MMA program and am officially done with classes for the rest of my life. also i will mention that i am on a bus because i have just arrived in washington, DC because tonight i will be conducting the Red Light Ensemble...

May 5th

The Third Coast (is actually freezing even though...

i’m home! living it up in chicago, and true to form it’s 31 degrees and raining/snowing and the wind is blowing my face off - but it feels right somehow. i treated myself to a nice car and have been cruising around hanging with my old friends, meeting new babies, catching up with the moms, etc… what brings me to the chi? it’s THIRD COAST PERCUSSION. colleague and friend...

Apr 5th

Times review of last night's MATA Festival concert →

I had a great time at this show, and The Knights played quite impressively. And here’s a really nice article by Allan Kozinn….

Apr 2nd

MATA Festival

I’m happy to say The Knights will perform my piece CORDAVI AND FIG tonight - Tuesday, March 31 - at Le Poisson Rouge as part of the MATA Festival. Tickets are $15 / $10 for students and seniors / I’ll be coming in from New Haven for the night and I hope to see you there! Here’s some audio from the last performance of Cordavi and Fig (I’m really happy how this recording...

Mar 31st

Nguye loJesu here’s a recording from BODY...

Mar 24th

"I will always stand on the side of the egg." →

tip of the hat to NKo

Feb 25th

VESSELS here’s a new recording of my piece...

Feb 14th

Oh, Indie Rock... you're just so... Indie.

all weekend I’ve been mulling over Nico Muhly’s extremely interesting response to an interview with John Adams that appeared in Newsweek last week. essentially, when the reporter offers nico and caleb burhans as examples of composers who broaden audience appreciation of classical music, adams lets loose this bomb about how “a lot” people in that generation are...

Feb 9th

Feb 1st

percussionists endure

the last few months have been difficult in that i have been consumed with school obligations - spending lots of time in new haven but finding little to no time for composing; missing new york and everyone in it. this is a trade-off i knew would happen, as the strange degree program i’m enrolled in promises that all academic obligations toward a DMA be completed in just one year. this of...

Jan 31st

punditry →

Jan 14th

interview →

here’s an interview just posted on InDigest Magazine, mostly re: Katrina Ballads

Dec 19th