This week’s PractiCast #2 was livestreamed from Distler Hall on September 17, 2020.

A Production of Music 119: Composition Practicum, it featured a musical dialogue with Samuel Graber-Hahn & John McDonald.

Performed on piano by John McDonald

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Program

Some Fives (2020) by Samuel Graber-Hahn

Musical security comes and goes. – Walk; sketch. Discover a place. – Movement, stasis. Which is which? – Fall into place. Without force. (Text by J. McDonald)

High Fives, Op. 661, No. 48 (2020) by  John McDonald

Consider how same not same. – Use pick-ups; move on. – Hoodwinked; sick; time to compose. – Wait. Wait again. Keep waiting. – Consider how different not different. (Text by J. McDonald)

Nocturne (2020) by Samuel Graber-Hahn

Thank-You Fours, Op. 661, No. 46 (2020) by John McDonald

Let the back breathe. – No purpose in it. – Charily accumulated, patient mind. – Weeks, months, years, decades (puttering, procrastinating, preparing, piú puttering). (Text by J. McDonald)