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Edward Green |
Composer, Musicologist &
Aesthetic Realism Associate |
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You are listening to the opening of my Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Strings, performed live in Moscow by Dale Underwood with the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin under the baton of Misha Rachlevsky, and you can listen to it in its entirety via "Compositions" menu on the left. I am now in the midst of composing a full-length ballet based on Milton's Paradise Lost, and also the score to Ken Kimmelman's short animated feature film Thomas Comma. My future projects include a choral symphony, entitled Children of Abraham, and a string quartet with an accompanying video based on the work of the great Belgian graphic artist Frans Masereel. |
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Dear Friends, |
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I thought you’d like to know that The Field, a not-for-profit 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt organization serving the performing arts community in New York, has just added me to their list of Sponsored Artists. This means that I can now raise tax-deductible financial support for my work as a composer through The Field.
There are two projects which I hope you will generously support. The first involves Arizona University Recordings: a full CD of my chamber music has already been recorded, and money is needed for post-production costs. The second concerns my orchestral music. Misha Rachlevsky, director of the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, is eager to create, for commercial release, an entire CD of this music. What is needed are the funds to make the master recordings.
To give you a sense of his commitment to my music, Maestro Rachlevsky has made the extraordinary offer to waive any fee for himself in this project. He was also kind enough to say: |
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| "There are only a handful of composers worldwide who have the creative artistry to move audiences on a consistent basis, and at the same time to write with such depth and integrity that they earn the large esteem of their professional colleagues. Edward Green is among them; in my opinion, high among them." |
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To those of you who do not know my music, I have posted samples elsewhere on this website, and at the end of this letter, there will be a tab you can click on to navigate to that page. Meanwhile, a further idea of the kind of music I write can be surmised from these statements by other distinguished musicians: |
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| "Edward Green is one of the outstanding composers of our time. His music is gorgeously melodic, and also dramatic." |
—François D'Albert, former President, Chicago Conservatory College |
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| "I do not know of anyone working today who has accomplished more in the revitalization of tonal melody—pure, clear, inventive, heart-felt melody." |
—Prof. Dale Underwood, University of Miami |
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| "What a joy to see things so beautifully conceived, and written wonderfully for the voice!" |
—Frederick Swann, President, American Guild of Organists |
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| "Ed Green writes luxuriously, sensuously beautiful and accessible music. He is a composer of real merit." |
—Markand Thakar, Director, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra |
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And Prof. Benjamin Verdery, of the Yale School of Music, said this: |
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| "Ed Green has a wonderfully distinctive compositional voice. His music has a beauty and truth which will endure." |
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I am grateful for these words; spurred on by them to do ever-more-challenging work. For I consider myself among the luckiest composers ever to have lived. I had the inestimable privilege to study with Eli Siegel, the founder of Aesthetic Realism. From him I learned this magnificent idea, which has been the guiding principle of my work: All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.
Time is of the essence for the projects I outlined above—and so I am hoping both for your generosity, and your timeliness! I need to raise $5,000 for the first project, and approximately $15,000 for the second. I am hoping to do so for both within a year or less.
I want to thank you in advance for whatever assistance you can give to help bring to fruition these exciting projects. And if you wish to have your name included in the pamphlet which will accompany the CDs—so that the people who will enjoy the music can know that you are among the persons whose generosity helped make this music possible—I’ll be delighted to do so.
Please make your donations payable to The Field, and write Edward Green on the “memo” line of the check.
In keeping with the procedures of The Field and its Sponsored Artists Program, please mail the checks to:
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Dr. Edward Green
208 East Broadway, Apt. J 1007
New York, NY 10002 |
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The Field will send tax-receipts that confirm no goods or services were received in exchange to all donors who contribute $250 or more. For those who contribute less, all that is needed for IRS purposes is your cancelled check.
Sincerely, and with all best wishes,
Ed Green
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The Field is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization serving the New York City performing arts community. Contributions made to The Field and earmarked for Edward Green are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. For more information about The Field contact: The Field,161 Sixth Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10013, (212) 691-6969, fax: (212) 255-2053, www.thefield.org. A copy of The Field‘s latest annual report may be obtained, upon request, directly from them, or by writing the Office of the Attorney General, Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271. |
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