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Here’s the first excerpt from the By A Route Obscure concert.
Just what is By A Route Obscure? It is a multifaceted project that will emerge in various stages over the next few months. Originally, Edgar Allen Poe wrote it in a poem he called Dream-Land. For the past few years, I have been working on my third book of tunes and will adapt it as its title completing “The Obscure Tune Book Trilogy” that also includes Jig the Obscure and Idyll Works of a Madman.
By A Route Obscure is also a concert that will occur in February at The Company of Fifers and Drummers in Ivoryton, Connecticut. I will be joined by Dominick Cuccia & The Not-So Traditional Players, a group Dominick formed this past year that performed at Massachusetts Day of Percussion at Boston Conservatory and in Austin, Texas for PASIC 2009 . Joining Dominick on percussion will be Gus Cuccia, Therese Cuccia, Brendan Mason, and Mark Reilly. I will be joined by Deborah Malli, Catherine Cavallo, and Mickey Andrews on fife, Tishka Musco on fife and flute, Maureen Mason on fife and trumpet, Jess Reed on bass trumpet and euphonium and Maria Paradis on baritone saxophone.
The concert will feature arrangements and compositions that illustrate directions fife music could have gone and might be going. A variety of wind and percussion ensembles will enhance a progression of pieces adapted from different historical eras leading to original tunes I have composed over the past 35 years.
By A Route Obscure is also a documentary film that will premiere on April 25, 2009 at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. The film will chronicle all the work I have been up to over the past year with electroacoustic music, photography, videography, and of course, tunes.
Stay tuned for more information as the New Year arrives.
