Final Section of ten sections of a three-movements contemporary classical (aleatoric) suite. --- ANDREW ACKERS: •Location: New York, New York, United States •Genre: Classical » Aleatoric Music Editor's review: Is harp the perfect instrument for chance music? Andrew Ackers' "Harp(s) Solo" argues, "Yes." The MIDI-based harp adds percussive sweetness to the piece's elegant dissonance and angular phrasing. From there, take a step back into the compositional process with Ackers' "Etude in Twenty-ninths." Biography Born in 1953, Andrew Ackers is the son of the composer and pianist Andrew Ackers (Andy Ackers - father) who studied at the Yale School of Music on scholarship and was one of the most popular recording artists during the 1950's and 1960's. Andrew Ackers (father) is deceased since 1978. Originally with the Tommy Dorsy and Jimmy Dorsy bands, Andy Ackers composed conducted and played as an accompanist for a number of famous singers such as Jane Morgan, Jane Froman, Kate Smith, and Mindy Carson. As a studio musician and recording artiist, he recorded with nearly every famous singer at the time, including, Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Steve Lawrence, Eddie Gormet, Tony Bennett, Robert Goulet, Brenda Lee, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Barbara Striesand and many, many others. A student at the well-recognized Turtle Bay Music School as a child, Andrew Ackers (son) played Bach, Chopin, Mozart, Schumann, and other classical composers in a number of recitals as a student pianist and composer. As a young adult he worked with his father who studied with the contemporaries of Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodi and Tibor Serly. As an adult, he has studied with musical professionals, including a professional song, musical playwright and Masters of Music and Composition from Julliard. Andrew Ackers, an Estate member of ASCAP, has more recently begun his studies and work with composing, arranging and producing contemporary classical music, much in the aleatoric style. And, has arranged and orchestrated a number of his father's unpublished compositions. Andrew Ackers resides in New York City, has devoted his life since young adulthood to his faith, the arts, writing, editing, and music. In addition to much of his own thus far definitively unpublished works, he has developed musical and educational programs. One included an experimental two-year project where as a volunteer with an Occupational Therapist he was able to teach young children with special needs who were non-verbal music and music history. The program was a form of musical therapy that used the study of musical compositions of all types to stimulate verbal and writing abilities. At the conclusion of the project, all children were able to speak and some able to write to varying degrees. Some were also uplined as capable students when they entered elementary classes. He continues as a writer and editor but also as a composer. The themes of all his work are of mostly moral context and the purposes of his art are for praise, thanksgiving and sharing of the gifts and very special perspectives he feels he has been blessed with throughout his life. --- http://orbesonoro.blogspot.com
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Added: January 5, 2009
