Richard O.Burdick’s CD66 (a single):A Lake of Violet Flames

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CD66 (a single):
A Lake of Violet Flames
for 4 pianos and drums, op. 313
(2:30)

In response to

Julius Eastman

Released: Jan 30, 2022

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#	CD66 (a single): A Lake of Violet Flames	length
1.	A Lake of Violet Flames for 4 pianos and drums, op. 313	2:30
	Total time	2:30

I Ching Music's divider @ Richard Burdick 2020

Program Notes:

From the Composer:

Music as art seems to be out of vogue. The state of art seems to be like Warhol's Campbell soup can image - a copy of someone else, maybe with unique words but with very few styalist differences.

This work is not costructed with traditional music theory. So many poeple think that music theory is a singularity, but in reality there are many different music theories.

I found the music of Julius Eastman to be really quite weak, and again like just about anybody could have written it. This work A Lake of Violet Flames is a deep work, full of meaning

About the Music:

This work is a small I Ching Cycle similar to The Mindset (Op. 242), the Body Set (Op. 250) or the Open Mind Set (Op. 251), where one trigram in one position (top or bottom) is used in it's complete set of eight.
This work is short, but it uses all eight hexigrams with lake in th elower position (+ + -)

About the Recording:

Digital piano and drums

Cover Photo : Sunset at the site of the oldest airport in North America by R Burdick

About the Performer:

Richard Burdick as a musician:
French hornist: Richard O. Burdick is the first horn of Regina Symphony Orchestra and the Regina Symphony Chamber Players in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He is a prolific composer.

His move to Canada in 2003, with his wife Rebecca and his two boys, marked the start of the fourth major period in his musical Career.

In the 1980’s Richard was first Horn of Napa Symphony, a member of a San Francisco based theater orchestra and played lots of chamber music as manager of Trinity Chamber Concerts, a chamber music series in Berkeley California.

Starting in 1990 he played fourth Horn full-time for Sacramento Symphony, which went bankrupt in 1996. He then won auditions for Fresno Philharmonic, Napa & North State Symphonies and played in Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera.

He is a prolific composer and has many self produced CD’s of his own compositions, Bach, his classical natural horn playing and multi-track performances of many of his favorite pieces.

He performs on a variety of horns, a baroque natural horn (1720), a classical era natural horn (1800), a romantic era (1840's) natural horn, a single F horn from the 1880's, his main symphony horn is a Brendan Model Finke triple horn.

He has also done many music related jobs such as arranger for Sacramento Symphony, librarian and personal manager for Sacramento Philharmonic, and manager of Trinity Chamber Concerts (chamber music series) in Berkeley, California for 19 years starting in 1984.

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I Ching Music's divider @ Richard Burdick 2020