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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 [...]
Trio Casals Premiere at Carnegie Hall
Just announced - Trio Casals (Ovidiu Marinescu, cello, Anna Kislitsyna, piano, & Alexandr Kislitsyn, violin) will premiere my new piano trio Friday, November 10, 2023, at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York City.
The American Prize
NATIONAL SEMI-FINALISTS: The American Prize in Composition—vocal chamber music (professional division), 2023 Bruce Babcock - for Promethean Fire, sung by Hila Plitmann, with Marcia Dicktstein, harp & Luanne Homzy, violin
Recording With Trio Casals on February 15
Trio Casals will be recording Nevertheless, my new piano trio, on February 15 at West Chester University, PA for an upcoming album on the Navona label. The album will be followed by a world premiere at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall.
The American Prize – 2nd Prize for Irrational Exuberance
The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts, David (Volosin) Katz, founder and chief judge, is honored to announce the winners, runners-up and honorable mentions of The American Prize in Composition, 2022, instrumental chamber music. Congratulations!
Silver Medal in Global Music Awards for Be Still
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A New Review of Time and Again
American composer Bruce Babcock’s Time and Again, a piano sonata in four movements, was composed during the COVID year 2020 for pianist Anna Kislitsyna, and is included on her 2022 Navona Records release, Piano Spectrums: New Works for Piano. In four movements, Disquietude, Tarantism, Resolve, and Post-Haste, Babcock’s sonata traces, [...]
For Your Grammy Consideration – Best Contemporary Classical Composition
"Time and Again" is a piano sonata in four movements composed for my friend and colleague Anna Kislitsyna. The word "Time" in the title refers to the extraordinarily surreal pandemic year of 2020, and the word "Again" refers to my second opportunity to work with Anna. Anna and Ovidiu Marinescu recorded my sonata for cello [...]
