Awkward Fermata Press is up and running! The first of several planned sheet music publications is available on amazon.com. You can also order the score at your local music store!
Alternatively, you can purchase a .PDF file of the score on the scores page.
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I mean, "Billie Jean is not my lover." :-)
Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" provided Liz and me with endless amounts of fun. I know, I know; it sounds like a terrible idea on paper -- "Billie Jean" for a classical piano duo?!? My older brother suggested the idea in 2007, and I tossed it around for a few years before deciding to give it a go. I knew a direct transcription of the original would almost be disrespectful... nothing could ever fully recreate Michael Jackson's legendary performance. Instead, we decided to follow our own artistic path, using Jackson's wonderfully fertile musical material as inspiration.
I'm quite thrilled with the result! It's at once modernist, rhythmic, offbeat, and "classical."
We had a blast conceiving and producing the music video. Anna Whistler, our incomparable camerawoman and friend, turned the stage into a dance floor, and before we knew it, we had fantastic footage of our dancing shadows to splice into the final cut. Ultimately, however, we decided on a more understated tone for the video (in contrast to some of our others)... keeping it classy for MJ. Also, a special shout out to Smith College and Yale alumniVentures for helping to make the music video possible.
Guess what? Now you, too, can tackle the labyrinth of complexities that is the Blue Danube Fantasy! We realize it has taken us years to make the score available for sale, and we thank you for your patience.
No longer a messy, illegible manuscript, the newly notated score is beautiful, if we do say so ourselves! You can purchase a PDF file of the score (as well as many other fantasies and arrangements) on the composition page.
The score will be available in soft cover in the New Year.
Listen to the hour-long show here! We discuss and perform our arrangements of Piazzolla, Saint-Saëns, Bach, Radiohead, Rachmaninoff, and Bizet.
This is one of the most delightful gifts we've ever received from a fan -- a video representation of our "Cat's Fugue." Stephen Malinowski did a fanastic job visualizing our fugue! Thanks Stephen!!
Buy the score on the scores page.
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