Abby Fisher’s wonderful new album features Continuous Interior for solo vibraphone and electronics. Available on Bandcamp and streaming everywhere (Released on Neuma Records)

Host Matt Donnelly interviews composer Robert Honstein, talking about his music and a preview of his latest album Horizon Line.

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Horizon Line, released by New Focus Recordings, is available on Bandcamp and all streaming services.

Robert Honstein Horizon Line Horizon Line music with string quartets Released on New Focus Recordings June 12, 2026 Bergamot Quartet Abby Fisher, vibraphone Mivos Quartet Alyssa Wang, violin Kiyoshi Hayashi, violin Beste Tiknaz Modiri, viola Jacques Lee Wood, cello Recording engineers: Mike Tierney (Tracks 1-7) & Ryan Streber (Tracks 8-9) Design by greystudio Artwork by Chris McCaw Liner Notes by Robert Honstein Horizon Line by Robert Honstein Spanning over a decade of work, the pieces on this album reflect my dual fascination with the string quartet and landscape. These works represent years of collaboration with cherished colleagues and dear friends. For their commitment, insight, and dedication, I am forever grateful. I have always been drawn to nature—not just as a source of wonder, but also as a place of fear, discomfort, and even irritation. Nature is a blank slate that nonetheless serves as a mirror to our own interiority. While the pastoral in art is often expressed as a desire to escape man-made structures—in this collection, I search for a new understanding of the concept. Here, the pastoral becomes a psychological space, bound only by projections of our mind. In this sense, the Horizon Line represents the limit of our vision: the point where immediate surroundings meet the infinite, and the known meets the unknown. Whether drawn by the fluorescent ceiling of a sprawling warehouse or the frozen edge of the Arctic tundra, the horizon orients us, allowing us to situate ourselves within the landscapes we inhabit. - Robert Honstein, Liner Notes OUT ON NEW FOCUS RECORDINGS Track Listing Continuous Interior: I. Flickering, light [05:45] Continuous Interior: II. Languid, dreamy [05:36] Continuous Interior: III. Urgent, breathless [05:45] The Great Marsh: 1. Salt Hay [05:25] The Great Marsh: 2. Mudflats [03:56] The Great Marsh: 3. Seaside Sparrow [02:03] The Great Marsh: 4. Estuary [07:36] Arctic: I. Midnight Sun [03:07] Arctic: II. Polar Night [13:56] Check out Rob's interview on Classical Journey with Matt Donnelly Horizon Line's Complete Score Follow Videos Playlist Copyright © 2026 Robert Honstein, All rights reserved. You are in this list because you might be interested in my music. But, please, unsubscribe if this is not the case. Our mailing address is: Robert Honstein 2 Barney Park Irvington, NY 10533 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

For the release of Horizon Line, Abstraction Music Group has made a score follow video for Continuous Interior, featuring Abby Fisher with the Bergamot Quartet. Enjoy!

New Music USA announces:

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE VIBRAPHONE: PAMELA Z AND ROBERT HONSTEIN

The year 2021 brings the unique opportunity to celebrate the first centennial of the vibraphone, an instrument developed in Indianapolis, IN by the Leedy Manufacturing Company, that has become a globally-recognized fixture in a wide variety of genres spanning from classical, pop, jazz and everything in between. To mark this occasion, a team of performers, composers, educators and music administrators have founded Vibraphone Project Inc. (VPI), whose first major endeavor is to facilitate a 3-day festival in Indianapolis, the instrument’s birthplace, to promote, support, educate and nurture artists and audiences associated with the vibraphone. One of the many ways we will accomplish this is by commissioning new works of integrity and substance for the instrument by prominent American contemporary composers, Pamela Z and Robert Honstein.

The festival (TBA) will be held in Indianapolis, IN of May 2021. For more information visit the New Music USA grant page: https://www.newmusicusa.org/projects/contributions-to-the-vibraphone-pamela-z-and-robert-honstein/