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This blog documents the creative processes of composers Craig Biondi, Alphonse Izzo and Aleksander Sternfeld-Dunn as they compose new works for a concert funded in part through Meet The Composer's Met Life Creative Connections Program in association with the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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Saturday, March 6, 2010

Izzo: Landscape With a Figure

This piece is going to be longer than I expected.  When I first began working on the music I planned to make each variation around 2 minutes long.  There are times however, when your calculations need to be discarded no matter how nice they look on paper.  That's what I find so fascinating about this process; it truly is a balancing act between logic and intuition.   


I also discovered that the 2nd. half of the piece wants to be more serious in nature than the first half.  This is pretty evident in the 4th. variation titled Landscape With a Figure; the character of the music is brooding and at times explosive.
 
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