Category Archives: Music

“My Own” Performance at Conduit

By Sam L. Richards | Published: March 9, 2010
Last weekend, on February 27th, two of my works were featured in Portland, one a premiere, at Intrinsic Environment: A dance and music collaboration. A video of My Own, with choreography by Valerie Ifill and Emily Baumann, can be found here. A video of the other work, Tangential, which was an extended version of the piece [...]
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Master's Recital — Sospiro — ECCE

By Sam L. Richards | Published: December 17, 2009
In light of the pervasive yet productive insanity I’ve endured over the past few months, I wanted to give a belated shout out of thanks to all those who participated and played in my Master’s Recital last month. Over the course of the next few days I will be going though my site updating recordings [...]
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After Hours in the Parlour Room

By Sam L. Richards | Published: October 30, 2009
At long last, I’ve secured a video recording of the University of Oregon Repertory Dance Company’s performance of After Hours in The Parlour Room, featuring music I composed in collaboration with choreographer, Alex Taylor. Featured in this performance are dancers Emily Baumann, Karta Purkh Khalsa, and Emily Leonard. This recording is from the Saturday, April [...]
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Faster Than a Speeding Bullet, Performance Video

By Sam L. Richards | Published: September 27, 2009
I have posted a low quality video of the dance performance at the Faster Than A Speeding Bullet reception this last Friday, September 25th. Other than being a rather cramped space for dancers to perform in, I think it all went rather smoothly. Click here, or the picture below for a video featuring the entire [...]
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There Are No Words Here

By Sam L. Richards | Published: August 20, 2009
After months of being side-tracked with projects (very worthwhile ones, I might add), I have finally got around to editing the video and audio recordings of ECCE’s ANIMA concert that occurred in May of ‘09. Besides being the artistic director and curator, my own contribution to the program was a piece for solo viola, with choreography [...]
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ECCE-:-ANIMA

By Sam L. Richards | Published: May 18, 2009
  As the director of the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble (ECCE), I am thrilled to announce its latest production: ANIMA. A concert of new compositions and choreography created in collaboration between graduate students of the School of Music and Dance at the University of Oregon. Two showings, May 29 and 30th @ 7:30pm in the newly constructed multimedia and [...]
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Rapture and the Agon

By Sam L. Richards | Published: May 9, 2009
I have now posted a recording my of recently performed piece for flute choir, Rapture and the Agon. You can read more about it and listen to the recording on its own page. Although this piece isn’t necessarily a typical departure from what might be called “proscenium-style” concert music (in the sense that there is no additional multimedia [...]
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Performances, April 17th & 18th

By Sam L. Richards | Published: April 11, 2009
Next weekend, April 17th and 18th, two of my works will be performed as part of the UORDC’s spring concert: The More We Get Together, a collaboration with choreographer Valerie Ifill, and After Hours in The Parlour Room, a collaboration with Alex Taylor. Come see the work of the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance Faculty along [...]
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