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Cacioppo’s long ago student/now collaborator, pianist Bruce Leto, Jr. has done it again, this time making the FANFARE WANT LIST with his new CD “Mood Poems” which features a suite of nine character pieces by the composer. GRAMMY® folks may note that the disc will be in the running for this year’s awards in 2 […]

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CACIOPPO 3 Shelley Settings sc

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Shelley cycle CACIOPPO – Score

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PURCHASE Womb of the Sacred Mountains View the TRAILER FANFARE Sacred Mtns coverage Sacred Mountains I notes Sacred Mountains II notes Sacred Mountains III notes Sacred Mountains IV notes Sacred Mountains cover art Conversation 1 – performing the cycle Conversation 2 – influences Conversation 3 – compositional techniques… Conversation 4 – reception Pronunciations

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[This short essay in WSJ Life & Arts “Masterpiece” style celebrates the October 22 NAXOS release of a new CD dedicated to American composer Arthur Farwell (1872-1952). Farwell focused the best of his creative energy to bringing Native American music and belief into symbiotic relationship with the means and practices of the Western concert music […]

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Album on Spotify Album on Apple Music Track 7 with scrolling text Cacioppo texts Critical response to ILLUMINATIONS ‘like Leonard Bernstein, [Cacioppo is] another American composer of controlled eclecticism’ ‘a composer with such a fertile musical imagination, given to a kind of Whitman-like inclusiveness’ ‘potency…wealth of wit and invention…spectacularly clever’ ‘potent…thought-provoking poetics’ ‘The performances are […]

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Cacioppo’s monument to George Rochberg is now available for listening on YouTube at https://youtu.be/MRfPPkZvOc8 CURT CACIOPPO Ciclo metamorfico sul nome d’un maestro (1988) Metamorphic cycle on the name of a master  Curt Cacioppo, pianist (world premiere performance) Bösendorfer Imperial #29041 Lawrence H. Fornaci, piano technician LIVE at Marshall Auditorium, Haverford College, 10/22/88 Jeanne Velonis, audio […]

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