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Just Posted:
Concertino for Piano and String Orchestra (2022)
MIDI realization
Symphony in One Movement (2021)
MIDI realization
Overture in G (rev. 2022)
MIDI realization
Recently Published:
- An Open Letter about the meaning and value of the Aesthetic Realism Education.
- In IRASM: “Aesthetic Realism and the Joyous Artistry of the Beatles.”
- In ICONI: “A Composer Looks at Music, Ethics, and Aesthetics: An Interview with Edward Green”
- On allaboutjazz.com: Interview by Douglas Groothuis “Edward Green: Delighting In the Duke”
Scholarly Publications:
- Donald Francis Tovey
- Ethnomusicology—Or, “Meeting the New”
- Harmony and the Oneness of Opposites: Teaching Music Theory through Aesthetic Realism
- Sergei Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony
- The Mind of Adolph Hitler: A Study in the Unconscious Appeal of Contempt
- Duke Ellington’s “Harlem Air Shaft”: A True Programmatic Composition?
- Aesthetic Realism and Mahler’s Sixth
- Biography as Ethics: Felix Mendelssohn
- Rousseau, Burney, Hawkins
- Franz Josef Haydn
- Greatness in Music: Frédéric Chopin
- Arnold Schönberg
- Bach and Chromatic Completion
- Rhythm Combats Contempt: Aesthetic Realism and the Rite of Spring
New Publications
Aesthetic Realism and the Art of the Flute: An Interview with Barbara Allen in Conversation with Edward Green, PhD, published by the Hellenic Journal of Music, Education, and Culture
Aesthetic Realism and the Joyous Artistry of the Beatles, published in IRASM
John Lennon and the Battle in Every Mind between Contempt and Respect, published by Music Scholarship (Russia)
10 Questions with Edward Green, published by The Mozart Circle
The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington, available from Amazon.com.
World premiere recording, In Praise of Vivid Existence—a short suite for solo piano, performed by Simone Jennarelli. Available at cdbaby.com
Selected Concerts & Events
January 19, 2025 In Praise of Vivid Existence – suite for piano — part of a solo recital by Max Lifschitz at Klavierhaus, New York, NY
Nov. 30, 2024 Song for Guitar — performed by Ensamble Rosario, with choreography. Rosario, Argentina.
August 31, 2024 Music for Shakespeare (orchestral suite)—in an arrangement by Les Hicken—the Heidelberg Wind Ensemble, Melbourne, Australia, conducted by Stephen Carpenter.
February 29, 2024 “The Joyful Artistry of the Beatles”–a lecture at PepsiCo Recital Hall, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth.
February 27, 2024 A masterclass-lecture on my music, including student performances of several works, at Van Cliburn Concert Hall, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth.
February 21, 2024 “A Composer Inspired by Aesthetic Realism”—a Zoom Talk at the Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey, Mexico.
December 12, 2023 Symphony in C. La Orquesta Sinfónica del Congreso Nacional del Paraguay. Conducted by Diego Sanchez Haase.
November 25, 2023 Three Short Pieces for Solo Guitar. Performed by Augustin Lasalle, at “the 43rd symposium of contemporary music” of El Ensamble Rosario, Rosario, Argentina.
September 14, 2023 Concertino for Alto Saxophone and Chamber Winds. Soloist, Niels Bijl, accompanied by players from the Heidelberg Wind Ensemble, conducted by Stephen Carpenter. Performed at the Savage Club, Melbourne, Australia.
August 29, 2023 Overture in G. Scotch College Orchestra, Melbourne, Australia. Conducted by John Ferguson.
August 26, 2023 Symphony in Eb. Heidelberg Wind Ensemble, Melbourne, Australia.
Conducted by Stephen Carpenter
August 25 & 29, 2023 Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Series of three lectures on music and Aesthetic Realism.
May 21, 2023 Concertino for Alto Saxophone and Chamber Winds. Soloist, Niels Bijl. Heidelberg Wind Ensemble, Melbourne, Australia. Conducted by Stephen Carpenter.
April 14, 2023 Overture in G. National Symphony Orchestra of Ecuador (Quito). Conducted by David Handel.
April 12, 2022 The Orchestral Suite “Music for Shakespeare” is featured by La Orquesta Sinfónica del Congreso Nacional del Paraguay on their 10th anniversary concert, held in Asunción.
February 29, 2020: Concertino for Alto Saxophone and Chamber Winds. Premiered by the Rutgers Wind Ensemble, conducted by Kraig Williams.
November 10, 2018: Delivering a Keynote Talk, “Lovely Ritmos, Meter Mad,” at the Monmouth University conference on The Beatles.
September 6, 2018: Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Strings. Performed by the Panama Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ricardo Risco with Paul Cohen as soloist.
May – June, 2018: Fulbright Foundation sponsored residency in Asunción, Paraguay: lecture series on music and Aesthetic Realism
Other News
Symphony in C awarded the First International Symphonic Composition prize (2017) of the Orquesta Sinfónica del Congreso Nacional del Paraguay. The prize includes publication of the symphony.
Announcement by the Museum of the City of New York of “Ellington and New York City”