Category Archives: Portfolio

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 [...]
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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 [...]
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“Tangential” Performance at Conduit

By Sam L. Richards | Published: March 16, 2010
I have finally edited and posted the video from a performance of my collaborative work Tangential with choreographer Valerie Ifill. The original work was premiered at Dance For a Reason in late January, but Val and I proceeded to create an extended and final version for Instrinsic Environment, a concert featured at Conduit Dance, Inc. [...]
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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 [...]
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Boccherini, Performance, and the Post-Modern Musicology

By Sam L. Richards | Published: January 31, 2010
The composer achieves nothing without executants. . . for while it is pleasing to hear people say, “What a beautiful work this is!” it seems to me even more so to hear them add, “Oh, how angelically they have executed it!” - Luigi Boccherini[1] I know that music is made to speak to the heart [...]
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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 [...]
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Death Rides a Horse

By Sam L. Richards | Published: July 23, 2009
Hot on the heels of the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium was the live performance of an original score written by Gracin Dorsey and myself for the spaghetti western classic, Death Rides a Horse. As stated on the film’s Wikipedia entry, the film has landed itself a special place in popular culture, not to mention [...]
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