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Metaphor Two score/video posted on YouTube
This piece was recorded by the brilliant pianist Robert Thies at The Bridge in Glendale in 2013 […]
Dyad performs “Of Two Minds” at the Kennedy Center
Niv Ashkenazi, violin and Leah Kohn, bassoon, collectively known as “Dyad,” performed my piece “Of Two Minds” on their concert at the Kennedy Center MILLENNIUM STAGE on July 21. […]
New Trio Casals album includes Nevertheless
Coming August 10, 2023 on the Trio Casals album A GRAND JOURNEY 2, on the Navona label. The album includes my newest piece entitled Nevertheless. Available on all of the usual platforms.
American Prize Finalist Again
I’m a finalist in the instrumental chamber music category of The American Prize 2023 competition.
Global Music Award for Event Horizon
Event Horizon earned a Silver Medal in the Global Music Awards competition July 10, 2023. To listen to/watch Event Horizon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO4e4CAXW_k
Performance at the Kennedy Center
July 8, 2023 Niv Ashkenazi, violin and Leah Kohn, bassoon, collectively known as "Dyad," will perform my piece "Of Two Minds" on their concert at the Kennedy Center MILLENNIUM STAGE on July 21.
18 years ago this weekend
Bruce Babcock, Composer in residence Santa Barbara Chamber Music Festival Dan Kepl, Festival Director […]
The American Prize National Finalist – Vocal Chamber Music 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 it out of sight Into the great new age I [...]
Remembering Hugo Friedhofer
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 Hollywood in 1929, at the age of 27, at the [...]
YouTube Score-Video of Time & Again
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 . . .
Review – Alternative Facts for Organ
Review – Alternative Facts for Organ Given free rein by the composer, James Walker has constructed a sound and color scheme for the organ replication of Alternative Facts that is even more menacing than the original piano version, perhaps because the organ is such a cavernous instrument. Walker has found [...]
Two Silver Global Music Awards
On March 31, 2023, Global Music Awards announced the winners in their March 2023 competition. Bruce Babcock earned a Silver Medal in the Contemporary Classical category for "Time and Again," recorded on the Navona label, composed for and performed by pianist Anna Kislitsyna. Also earning a Silver Medal, in the [...]
