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May 17, 2023
Promethean Fire - Text by Alfred Noyes I sing of those who caught the pure Promethean fire One from another, each crying as he went down To one that waited, crowned with youth and joy. Take thou the splendour, carry [...]
May 4, 2023
Hugo actually had a career in film music which predated the introduction of sound into motion pictures in 1927. This career, as a cellist in theater orchestras in San Francisco, was actually ended by the advent of talkies. Arriving in [...]
April 27, 2023
Nick Gianopoulos has posted a YouTube score-video of my Time & Again, written for and recorded by pianist Anna Kislitsyna. Thanks, Nick! Click on the page below to go to the Score-Video . . [...]
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2023“Nevertheless” at Carnegie HallTrio Casals (Ovidiu Marinescu, cello, Anna Kislitsyna, piano, & Alexandr Kislitsyn, violin) will premiere my new piano trio "NEVERTHELESS" Friday, November 10, 2023, at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York City.
Featured Reviews
“An impression of musicality which is very pleasant, indeed… a convincing sense of an overall mood… knows what he wants … sure of what he’s doing.”
– Aaron Copland
“…a musician who blends superior craftsmanship with a colourful, expressive sense of narrative.”
– Donald Rosenberg, Gramophone
on TIME, STILL
“Like a master sculptor of sonic marble, Babcock carves out wonderfully energetic dissonances; never allowing an unneeded doubling to disrupt his perfect balance.”
– Casey Cook, judge, The American Prize
on Be Still