Check out Zoom interview with WGTE’s Brad Cresswell about Middle Ground!
Originally posted here: https://www.wgte.org/radio/podcasts/classical-conversations/robert-honstein-middle-ground
Hub New Music and Robert Honstein: Soul House
Album out TODAY on New Amsterdam Records.
I'm incredibly excited to announce the release of Soul House, recorded by the wonderful Hub New Music. Out yesterday through New Amsterdam Records’ Windmill Series, this album features all nine movements of Soul House, with liner notes by Steve Smith.
This piece is near and dear to me and I couldn't have more fearlessly committed interpreters than Hub. I hope you will give it a listen!
More info on the release: https://www.newamrecords.com/albums/soul-house
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New Music Video of the movement “Backyard”!
the arts fuse review of the album
Honstein’s score, which was commissioned by HNM, features a mix of graceful, idiomatic, and virtuosic writing for the ensemble, which plays it here with tremendous control.
- Jonathan Blumhofer, artsfuse
Soul House | Hub New Music & Robert Honstein
Memory, nostalgia, longtime associations, and enduring relationships: these are the raw materials from which Soul House, the recording by the vital Boston ensemble Hub New Music, was constructed. Out via New Amsterdam’s Windmill Series on June 29 and available on all digital platforms on August 7, the recording comprises a single work by New York composer Robert Honstein, who formed a close bond with Hub during a period when he lived and worked in Boston.
- New Amsterdam Press Release
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This coincides with the release of my music video with Hub New Music of “Secret Place”!
chatterbird’s music video for Down Down Baby (quartet version)
Performed by chatterbird: Maya Stone, Jesse Strauss, Celine Thackston, Aaron Walters. Recorded in Cumberland Park, Nashville, October 2019.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Percussionist perform ‘Cross Fit’ here:
The CSO’s Cynthia Yeh on the vibraphone in ‘Cross Fit’
With her cat Nacho making a special appearance, Cynthia Yeh, principal percussion of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, performs a segment of Cross Fit, the fourth movement of Robert Honstein's "An Economy of Means" (2015), written for prepared vibraphone.
Everything Now Right Now
First off, the video of Everything Now Right Now, performed by the amazing Evan Chapman, was published by Vic Firth this past Friday.
Second, this work will be included on his solo album “Caustics”, due to be released on April 10th, 2020! The album also includes works by Ian Chang of Son Lux, Molly Joyce, Alexis C. Lamb, Anna Meadors, Alicia Walter, and Ted Babcock. Stay tuned for more album release updates.
ABOUT THE PIECE:
Everything Now Right Now is a piece for drum set and track featuring high-energy, driving rhythms and a free-wheeling, synth-soaked track. Moving in lock-step with the drums, the track becomes a kind of super-drum, highlighting every sound in the kit as if the kit itself triggers the track’s bombastic frenzy. After a careening opening section, full of jump-cuts and jagged rhythms the track abruptly shifts to an ominous drone while the drummer adds a layer of improvised cymbal sounds. As we are lulled into an ambient haze of cymbals and shifting synth-pads, the music suddenly turns back to material reminiscent of the opening. The quick change leads to few brief missteps, but the drummer soon locks in with a series of increasingly disjunct grooves, driving the music to a bombastic finish.
Video Premiere: Hub New Music performs "Landing” from Soul House in album promo.
Hub New Music is set to release their debut album, featuring the complete Soul House. This promo video is one of nine movements, which will feature choreography from Urbanity dance and my attic as the set.
Produced by Four/Ten Media (Kevin Eikenberg & Evan Chapman)
Audio by Immersive Music Project (Jesse Lewis)
Video Premiere: Cellist Ashley Bathgate Reimagines a Cello Suite Inspired by Bach
Produced by Four/Ten Media and presented by New Amsterdam Records, featured on Ashley’s album “ASH”