Deconstructing Jim

  Dear Composers,   You have achieved wonders.  Getting to where you are in life at this critical point in time is not a simple or easy achievement.      Development of the skills ...

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It’s been my observation that the number of people who regularly attend contemporary art museums far out number the number of people who frequent contemporary music concert events. Why are co...

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I'm often asked, "What kind of music do you write?" My response to this tricky question has not become any easier over the years... After an uncomfortably long silence, I scratch my head...

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David Holzman ROMANTICISM STILL LIVES! The Music Department of Long Island University CW Post presents Grammy Award nominated pianist David Holzman in recital on Tuesday, March 5th, 201...

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This is a nice live recording of a short woodwind quintet that I composed in 2004. The performance was on May 11th, 2007 by The Solar Winds.

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Luckily we don't often consider that we are fragile biological creatures situated on a small blue planet hurling at breakneck speed through a vast universe.  We tend to go about the daily activ...

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New work for Violin and Piano:

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QUEENS NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL 2018 Saturday, May 19, 2018, 5pm “a master pianist,” Andrew Porter, The New Yorker “the Horowitz of modern music,”  Jerry Kuderna, The San Francisco Class...

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I'm a little early to the party, but I would like to wish everyone a great 2018. You deserve it. This has been a challenging year for many of us - on many fronts. Yet on a personal level I hav...

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New work for String Quartet...

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NEW PIECE FOR BRASS QUINTET...

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Today I'm pondering the universe of constructed languages (or "conlang").  I'm thinking about artificial and experimental languages created purely for the purpose of artistic expression - partic...

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Here is a new digital realization of my orchestra work "Tone Poem" (2003). Hope you enjoy it! -James Ricci

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Earlier this week I spent a day in the comfortable surroundings of the Library of Congress Music Division reading room pouring over dozens of letters written between composers that I eithe...

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Grammy nominated pianist:  DAVID HOLZMAN  (www.battlemuse.com )   SUNDAY JUNE 7TH, 2015 3 PM SPECTRUM 121 LUDLOW New York City http://spectrumnyc.com     > Piano ...

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If one were to only consider the metrics of presenting and producing an event of contemporary music in the current cultural climate, one would think that the number of warm bodies in the audience...

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CONTRAPUNCTUS I  BY J.S. BACH FROM ART OF THE FUGUE, BWV 1080      

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Anonymous yet personal, this Blog chronicles the daily events and musings of Jim. It provides an easy way for his friends and family to check in on him, and serves as a online repository for his random thoughts, kaleidoscopic flashbacks, and writings on an array of diverse topics. “Deconstructing Jim” is simply here to entertain you, but not intended for college credit.

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I was born in NYC, but Boston MA has been my long-term temporary residence since 1973. For just over 40 years I have walked the winding cow paths of this great city, but will soon be saying goodb...

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The notion that music is a uniquely multidimensional art-form revealed itself to me rather early in life. Mrs. Biller, my first grade teacher at Springhurst Elementary School in suburban New York...

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I composed EDANERES (Serenade spelled backwards) in the spring of 1981 as an experimental study in sound.  It’s a piece where I tried out a technique of large-scale pitch construction and ...

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Quintet (3rd Movement)

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World Premiere of my Chamber Symphony January 29, 2012 www.symfonietta.nl -------------

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While it's always been difficult to pinpoint the reasons behind the musical urge (or addiction), there does appear to be a segment of society that thrives on the benefits of organized sound. I gu...

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