standing ovation following a performance of my piece HOWL
(for solo clarinet and ensemble). At that moment, I realized
John Cage is the greatest composer of all time."
- Michael Schelle
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NEW VIDEO RECORDING
KURASHIKKU (2021)
Lish Lindsey, flute / bass flute
Thomas Piercy, clarinet / bass clarinet
Tengku Irfan, piano
Queens (NY) New Music Festival - May 7, 2023
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NEW VIDEO RECORDING
RESILIENCE (2015)
Double Concerto for Viola, Cello and Orchestra
Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra
Matt Albert, viola Joshua DeVries, cello
Matthew Kraemer, music director and conductor
Schrott Center for the Performing Arts 16 October 2021
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Eastern European premiere production of
THE END OF AL CAPONE
OPERA XXI WIEKU
Warsaw, Poland - May 2019
UMFC Modern Ensemble / Warsaw Chamber Opera
Uniwersytet Muzyczny Fryderyka Chopina
Ignacy Zalewski, music director and conductor
Mateusz Żaboklicki, stage directorJacek Szponarski (tenor), Al Capone
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Schelle with Al Capone (Jacek Szponarsky) - Warsaw, May 2019
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SCHELLEKAMMERMUSIKONZERT
(all-Schelle chamber music concert)
"Unsurprisingly, the perspective was also manic.
The Schellekammermusikonzert traversed a post-modernist
"Unsurprisingly, the perspective was also manic.
The Schellekammermusikonzert traversed a post-modernist
Moebius strip along which the ghost of George Antheil
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STRAIGHT, NO LITHIUM
Michael Schelle’s “Straight, No Lithium,” a collection of nine preludes for solo piano, opened the program with a tongue-in-cheek jolt. Schelle begins with a rollicking update of the barrelhouse style, sometimes mating parodies of Sprechstimme, with the energetic pianist, Jim Loughery, gamely vocalizing. A more introspective, angular middle section (the preludes are grouped in threes) leads to an explosion of purely Bachian figuration, punctuated by brash, increasingly assertive chords that seemed oddly natural, rather than disruptive.
The New York Times
Allan Kozinn
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PSALM OF THESE DAYS
(for 8 pianists in 8 practice rooms)
“Psalm of These Days,” by Michael Schelle, closed the program. Schelle’s
score is richly chromatic, and dotted with “events,” including striking
the strings inside the piano, shouting a word or name from a list
provided in the score, and scurrying from piano to doorway and
making eye contact with listeners. Yet the music, with its increasingly
clear references to a psalm setting by Thomas Tallis, was sober and, in
the final section, moving.
The Portland Press Herald
Allan Kozinn
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for solo piano (2016)
review
review
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Blast from the Past
October 1991 - Indianapolis
Iconic American Beat poet Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
joins in on a performance of Michael Schelle's
"HOWL!" (1986), for clarinet and chamber ensemble
Ronen Chamber Ensemble
David Bellman, clarinet
Allen Ginsberg, concertina
Michael Schelle, conductor
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