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BraveSound Presents: RB Grupo (Excerpts From)

BraveSound Presents: RB Grupo (Excerpts From)

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1(I=cl.) / str. qt. / rtm.

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"Fifrillim" is part of a larger project in drafts of Brazilian music styles that was catalyzed by my BraveSound performance in February 2021. Utilizing the salient "Ritmica" concept, championed by Jose Eduardo Gramani, it is an homage to such a school of thinking, written as a forró in odd meter.

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NYC Large Ensemble Composing with Robert Buonaspina | Brave Sound Podcast #13

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Fifrillim

for clarinet, string quartet, & rhythm section

MSM Philharmonia Orchestra

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Mar 2019

4min 42sec

Premiered February 22, 2022 on Brave Sound presents: Robert Buonaspina

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1(I=cl.) / str. qt. / rtm. (rtm=pno. & bs.)

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"Dois Passaros" and "Durme Bem" are part of a larger project of drafts/workshopped music in Brazilian music styles that were catalyzed by my BraveSound performance in February 2021. It explores two adjacent narratives in contrapuntal, samba-canção styles.

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NYC Large Ensemble Composing with Robert Buonaspina | Brave Sound Podcast #13

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Dois Passaros / Durme Bem

for clarinet, string quartet, piano, & upright bass

MSM Philharmonia Orchestra

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Mar 2019

8min

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1(I=clarinet) / str. qt. / rtm.

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This is a slightly-abridged chamber arrangement of my through-composed orchestral work "saudade." It's a draft that I workshopped and put together for my BraveSound chamber performance in February of 2021.

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From Brave Sound Presents: Robert Buonaspina (Brave Sound Podcast)
Feb 2021

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saudade

for clarinet, string quartet, & rhythm section

MSM Philharmonia Orchestra

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Mar 2019

11min 30sec

Premiered February 22, 2022 on Brave Sound presents: Robert Buonaspina

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str. qt.

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This arrangement of Strayhorn's seminal tune "Blood Count" treats its source material as granular parts of a whole.

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From Brave Sound Presents: Robert Buonaspina (Brave Sound Podcast)
Feb 2021

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Blood Count (Strayhorn, Arr. R. Buonaspina)

for string quartet

MSM Philharmonia Orchestra

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Mar 2019

9min

Premiered February 22, 2022 on Brave Sound presents: Robert Buonaspina

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1(I=cl.) / str. qt. / bs.

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This arrangement of "But Beautiful" was originally materialized as an assignment for a class on Studio Orchestration/Jazz Philharmonic Writing I took at Manhattan School of Music. It is a scaled-down [multi-div.] string arrangement with a Bb instrument feature at the forefront.

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From Brave Sound Presents: Robert Buonaspina (Brave Sound Podcast)
Feb 2021

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But Beautiful (Burke/Van Heusen, Arr. R. Buonaspina)

for clarinet, string quartet, & upright bass

MSM Philharmonia Orchestra

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Mar 2019

3min 14sec

Premiered February 22, 2022 on Brave Sound presents: Robert Buonaspina

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