NMR Artist Spotlight: EXCLUSIVE Interview with Classical Composer David Warin Solomons David Warin Solomons is a lyrical neo-classical composer who uses various styles, including European (in various modes), Jewish, Chinese and Japanese. He has written chamber, solo, choral, vocal and orchestral music. WHAT INSPIRES YOUR MUSIC?  My music is inspired partly by the rhythms and feelings of poetry and religious texts and partly by my own improvisations. DOWNLOAD PSALM 23 TODAY AT CD BABY WHAT IS YOUR STORY?  I was born in 1953 to two poetic and artistic parents and soon found myself writing music, initially for classical guitar and then for various chamber music and choral ensembles, while singing with choirs in churches and cathedrals in England, Ireland and France. WHAT MAKES YOUR MUSIC EXTRAORDINARY/DIFFERENT?  I am self-taught as a composer, guitarist and singer, so, although I follow many of the dictates of tonal classical mu...

To understand percussionists, you must have: Experienced several years in middle school band sitting in the back, bored to tears, waiting for that single suspended cymbal roll or triangle solo... Learned the life of a roadie by being your own roadie... Mastered the skills of the human octopus... Embraced contemporary classical music... Unexplicably struggled through the class innocuously labeled "Aural Theory Training". Now, as a disclaimer, there are many percussionists that have thrived in aural theory. Of course, I have only known one in my experience. Lenny (name changed to protect the guilty) has perfect pitch, that blessed gift from the muse above which makes classes like ear training little more than your kindergarten phonics class. I recall one recording session where the percussion ensemble spent an hour with Lenny asking him the pitch of his elbow, or knee, or head. With a vacant smile he would strike his appendages and forehead, and answer back "C#" or ...