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December 2007, Premiere of the new Photos
from the Troy University
Symphony Band Recording Session of 12-16 May 2007,
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Another STORMWORKS First.
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European
premiere of LAST WORLD STANDING (Photos) "Dear Mr Melillo, Thanks for your great, lyric, powerful musical eloquence ... it's quite elysian! You've owned with your works a new musical dimension ... a light never seen before! Thanks and best regards from Germany, Osnarück!" Jens Schröer, Conductor |
 Translation:Gala concert of the Symphonic Wind Orchestra Ried in the Brucknerhaus of Linz. In the program, just pieces of Stephen Melillo, an internationally accredited icon in Music for band, who proves his identity as a musician with enormous emotions and a large array of tone colors with brilliant craftsmanship. We heard "Godspeed!", "Jidai", "Cuba", "Romance" with the Violin virtuoso Johannes Meissl- and the monumental plea for peace "Last Word Standing" , from his catalog of about 950 pieces. Frenetic applause for the composer and the sweeping music-making of the orchestra with Karl Geroldinger followed. Dr. Balduin Sulzer is a famous composer and teacher in Upper Austria. |
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A TRIBUTE saying FAR MORE about KARL GEROLDINGER and his fine Musicians! But I'll take his commentary on the PAD BASS!!! He understands completely! "Dear Steve, We did MUSASHI 5 times since May, and we feel increasing our fascination and love for this extraordinary music. We played Musashi at World Music Contest in Kerkrade last Sunday. The audience was moved on and electrified, we got standing ovations. This Music is to touch the souls and to inspire people." Karl Geroldinger, Conductor of SBO-Ried, Austria
Check out this recently discovered recording of JURASSIC BLUES! Enjoy Song
from UNSUNG
HEROES
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LAST
WORLD STANDING
(On
Last World Standing...) "I was fortunate enough to
be there for the premiere. It was simply stunning. A great work
that defies stylistic categorization; a totally "new"
concept in performance. It is as revolutionary to the band world
as Wagner's music drama concept was to opera!"
Do you consider yourself an aficionado in Music by Stephen Melillo? If so, ONLY for NOW is a must read.
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The STORMWORKS Chapter 1 Prime CD: a WISH to the WORLD was recorded at Troy University. and delivered by future Music Educators! Photos
from Session
Update/Verify for Chapter 1P Official STORMDirector Check-in
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Actor, Kurtwood Smith plays AHAB! on STORMWORKS... Chapter 2 CD
Kurtwood Smith, Robocop's Clarence Boddicker, has made several memorable guest appearances for TV including The X Files, Magnificent Seven, STAR TREK: Voyager, Deep Space Nine and Picket Fences. He was a series regular on Big Wave Dave and Max. In addition to starring in the mini-series North & South II and The Nightmare Years, he appeared in telefilms such as A Bright Shining Lie, White Justice Sleeps, Doorways, The Christmas Gift, and The Renegades.
Kurtwood currently stars on That 70's Show. No stranger to the silver screen, Smith has appeared in several highly successful films including the 1998 Dreamworks film Deep Impact, critically acclaimed A Time to Kill, John Woo's Broken Arrow, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, To Die For with Golden Globe winner Nicole Kidman and Academy award winning Dead Poet's Society with Robin Williams.
Kurtwood also had a starring role in short film 12:01PM which was nominated for an Oscar. Additional film credits include Prefontaine, The Crush, Heart & Souls, Boxing Helena, Quick Change, Rambo III, Robocop and Staying Alive.
Steve and Kurtwood met while working on the Oscar nominated 12:01PM. They collaborate again on Melillo's AHAB! a work for Actor and Wind Ensemble composed in 1992 and recorded on the STORMWORKS... Chapter Two CD.
"Steve: Wow ... what a CD!! It's fabulous and I can't tell you how happy I am to be a part of it. The music for the entire disc is wonderful and I am so pleased with the Moby Dick piece ... the way you have worked voice and music together is very exciting ... once I got over criticizing myself and just listened to it I really felt I experienced the entire emotional life of the story ... it's beautiful. Congratulations Steve. I hope we can continue to work together ... and I thank you again for making me a part of your project. Hope to see you soon." Kurtwood Smith
"How can anyone put to music–make something good–of such deeply suffered events so memorably cruel, so personally humiliating, so heart-breaking to survivors and the families of those sacrificed? “It can’t be done,” repeatedly said survivor Jack Aldrich and others who felt the pathos or personally endured the then-seemingly-unending event. “It’s impossible,” they said, when he told them what he intended to do. And for the first time, that weekend in April 2004, they came, they saw and they learned that Melillo could do and successfully did do the impossible." From the Jan Girand Article, Roswell Daily Record. See THAT WE MIGHT LIVE.
INTERVIEW with GERHARDT ZIMMERMAN:
"Will the Canton Symphony ever release a CD? It's a goal. I have a composer in mind if we can come up with the financial wherewithal to put it together. His name is Stephen Melillo. I gave the world-premiere performances of his first two symphonies (with the North Carolina Symphony) and they were wonderfully well-received by the audience."
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