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Paul Sánchez
Jan 13 min read
On the Importance of Playing New Music
Paul Sánchez performing NEFERTARI, for soprano doubling on sistrum and prepared piano with plectrum. I’d like to share a few words about...
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Paul Sánchez
Jul 12, 202415 min read
Writing for the Piano: An Introduction
Writing for the piano offers almost limitless possibilities for the composer. This is an introductory overview of writing for the piano.
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Paul Sánchez
Jun 24, 202429 min read
Text Setting in Victoria’s "O magnum mysterium" and "Missa O magnum mysterium"
The care with which Victoria worked is illustrated in his text setting in the motet "O magnum mysterium" and the "Missa O magnum mysterium."
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Paul Sánchez
Jun 19, 202422 min read
The Poetics of Deep Song: Albéniz, Debussy, and Lorca
I hope that Lorca’s intimate and innate understanding of Deep Song may help us to more deeply identify with the music...
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Paul Sánchez
Jun 9, 20245 min read
MAGUS INSIPIENS: Paul Sánchez' Liner Notes
Written words may live forever, as vital now as at the moment of their creation...
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Paul Sánchez
Jun 5, 20244 min read
Reflections on NEFERTARI
...is music not exactly such a liminal space, and does it not have the power to bridge worlds?
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Paul Sánchez
May 18, 20245 min read
Seria Ludo: Program Notes
I’m honored to share this new music by Graham Lynch with the world for the first time, and to be a part of its story.
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Dr. Michael Morey
May 17, 20247 min read
Taliesin as a Repository of Knowledge in Paul Sanchez’ Magus
...Taliesin can offer the musical poet of today a repository of knowledge with which to explore his inner-self...
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Dr. Michael Morey
May 17, 20245 min read
A Fulfilled Promise Continues: The Reemergence of Sappho as a Figure of Hope in Paul Sánchez' "ὁδοιπορία (the journey)"
Sappho, then, emerges as a figure of hope for us here, today.
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Dr. Michael Morey
May 17, 20248 min read
Paul Sánchez’s Horizon: Our Journey back to the Stars
The overall narrative trajectory in Horizon is one that emphasizes our human journey back to those very same stars.
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Paul Sánchez
May 17, 20244 min read
The Poems of Horizon: for Harlan
These are the ten poems by Dr. Harlan Payne that I set in "Horizon: for Harlan."
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Graham Lynch
May 17, 20241 min read
FOREWORD to NEFERTARI
Every now and then a piece of music is created that opens a door into a new aesthetic area.
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Paul Sánchez
May 16, 20243 min read
Free Translations of Li Ch'ing Chao: Program Notes from the Composer
My intention was to capture the multivalent and subtle yet emotionally profound nature of Dr. Taylor’s translations of Li Ch'ing Chao.
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Dr. Luke Taylor
May 16, 20244 min read
Free Translations of Li Ch'ing Chao: Program Notes from the Translator
I was aiming throughout at communicating in English, with music, some of what I have found almost breathtakingly beautiful.
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Dr. Michael Morey
May 16, 20249 min read
A Moonlight Traveler in Fancy’s Land: Interpreting Madison Cawein’s Ghosts in Paul Sánchez’s Gothic Atonement
This paper draws upon Jacques Derrida’s concept of “hauntology” and Sigmund Freud’s concept of the “uncanny” to interpret Sánchez’s cycle.
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