Skip to content

jaybatzner.com

Composer

Menu
  • Jay C. Batzner, composer
  • News and Blog
  • Music
    • Solo Instrument (with or without electronics)
    • Chamber Music
    • Music for Dance
    • Electroacoustic
    • Vocal
    • Large ensemble
  • Social Media
    • My Twitter Feed
    • My Instagram
  • Contact Me
Menu

Category: Large Ensemble

Upon Julia’s Voice for SATB choir (2020)

Posted on October 7, 2021 by Jay Batzner

This setting of Robert Herrick’s poem was original composed as the final section of an extended dance collaboration piece titled Folds based on vocal biology. The choir piece served as the foundation for the rest of Folds and I like it so much I decided to split it off into its own work. Upon Julia’s…

Read more

Used Illusions for glissando flute and concert band (2017)

Posted on December 24, 2018 by Jay Batzner

Used Illusions is a short concerto for glissando flute and concert band. The whole work follows a traditional three movements structure of fast-slow-fast and each movement is built from motives as gestures found in Guns n’ Roses albums. The first movement, “Loco,” draws inspiration from the driving and propulsive “Locomotive” off of Use Your Illusion…

Read more

Songs My Radio Taught Me (Book 2) (2015)

Posted on November 25, 2016December 29, 2020 by Jay Batzner

I have a problem. As a composer, I’m supposed to write Extremely Serious Music (ESPECIALLY for orchestra). My problem is that, as a man of my age, I listened to a lot of music from the ‘80s. And I still do. I have several pieces in my catalog which draw on ‘80s hits and abstract…

Read more

Ashamed/Unabashed for two pianos and chamber orchestra (2004)

Posted on August 1, 2012August 1, 2012 by Jay Batzner

Ashamed/Unabashed is a single movement in four main sections. The first section is delicate and intricate, very slow and deliberate. The first section gives way to barbaric and aggressive pounding in the two pianos. Another noisy climax signals the return and expansion of the delicate music. After a final iteration of the mechanical and relentless…

Read more

Illuminations for wind ensemble (2005)

Posted on August 1, 2012August 1, 2012 by Jay Batzner

Illuminations is inspired by central themes found in Walter M. Miller’s science-fiction classic A Canticle for Leibowitz. A Canticle for Leibowitz is set at the Abbey of Saint Leibowitz many millennia after a nuclear holocaust. The book is in three sections and each section is centuries removed from the previous setting. The monks of the…

Read more

Search!

Pages

  • Jay C. Batzner, composer
  • Music
    • Solo Instrument (with or without electronics)
    • Music for Dance
    • Vocal
    • Chamber Music
    • Electroacoustic
    • Large ensemble
  • Discography
  • News and Blog
  • Contact Me

Categories

  • Blog
  • Chamber
  • Dance
  • Electroacoustic
  • Large Ensemble
  • Music
  • News
  • Recordings
  • Scores
  • Solo
  • Uncategorized
  • Vocal

Recent Posts

  • Five Fugues Based on Pop Songs for piano (2021)
  • This Union for soprano and organ (2019)
  • Threads for flute choir (2021)
  • A Thing I Cannot Name for flute (2019)
  • push pins for alto sax (2021)

Tags

15 minutes of fame 60x60 80s pop alto flute alto sax atonal bassoon cello clarinet dance duo electronics euphonium fixed media flute guitar high voice horn improvisation Knott marimba medium voice mezzo miniature oboe organ percussion piano quartet sax sci-fi simple slow soprano soprano sax tape tenor tenor sax trombone vibraphone video viola violin voice zen
© 2022 jaybatzner.com | Powered by Superbs Personal Blog theme