Category Archives: Music

Suite of Roads, Movement II.

By Sam L. Richards | Published: July 27, 2010
Video (and audio, of course!) is now posted of the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble’s May 13th, 2010 performance of Suite of Roads, a two-movement work for orchestra. The movements, severely contrasting in style and energy from one another, have been posted on separate days, with the first movement along with the works program notes having [...]
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Suite of Roads, Movement I.

By Sam L. Richards | Published: July 26, 2010
Video (and audio, of course!) is now posted of the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble’s May 13th, 2010 performance of Suite of Roads, a two-movement work for orchestra. The movements, severely contrasting in style and energy from one another, will be posted on separate days, with the second movement coming tomorrow. My program notes from the [...]
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With Bated Breath Video

By Sam L. Richards | Published: June 17, 2010
I’m proud to announce that a video and audio recording of one of my most recent collaborations with choreographer Alex Taylor has now been posted here. Titled With Bated Breath, this work was long in the making and both Alex and I are very proud of the final results. Please read more about it on it’s [...]
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Beauty’s Birth Recording

By Sam L. Richards | Published: June 16, 2010
The recording of Beauty’s Birth, a soprano duet I finished this spring based on a poem which I have referenced on this blog several times, is now posted on this page. My own program notes for the work are pasted below. The profundity of this succinct and pithy poem written by my own father haunts me. [...]
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“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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