“The Great Marsh” for string quartet is featured on Greenbelt’s Cox Reservation Audio Trail. The trailhead sign has a QR Code to scan, so bring along your smartphone and headphones. Each of the four movements are meant to be listened in four specific points along the trail.
Greenbelt President Kate Bowditch and her staff were instrumental in designing the trial. The Cox Sound Trail is part of the Artists for the Great Marsh initiative.
Photo of the sound trail signage with QR Code
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And as a reminder, The Real Charlie Chaplin is streaming through DOC NYC from November 13-28. More info here.
Hi friends!
After making the rounds at film festivals across the globe, The Real Charlie Chaplin, a documentary featuring my original score, will premiere on Showtime Saturday, December 11th at 8:00pm ET/PT.
If you want to watch the film before December, it will be presented live at DOC NYC (November 12, 6:45pm at the Cinépolis Chelsea) and AFI FEST in Los Angeles (November 14, 12:15pm at the TCL Chinese Theatre). DOC NYC will also be streaming the film November 13-28, 2021. There will also be a limited theatrical release Cinema Village (New York) and Laemmle Monica (Los Angeles) starting Friday, November 19. The film will premiere in UK cinemas on March 4th, 2022.
I am very proud of the final score which features about 60 minutes of original music cues. The score was recorded in March and the film premiered at Telluride in September. On the music side of the project, I’d like to give a shout out to the musicians who recorded the score as well as those that helped behind the scenes:
Issy Gleicher, flute
Gleb Kanasevich, clarinet
Brad Balliett, bassoon
Karl Larson, piano
Matt Evans, percussion
David Degge, dulcimer
Clara Kim, violin
Lauren Cauley, violin
Hannah Levinson, viola
Mariel Roberts, cello
Pat Swoboda, bass
Bridget Samuels, music supervision
Jon Senge, copyist
David Stevens, project manager
Ryan Streber, Engineer, Oktaven Audio
Thanks for tuning in,
Robert
We are excited to let you know about three important releases this fall!
Evergreen, for two percussionists, had its live premiere in September, featuring the outstanding Seattle-based Arx Duo. They have upcoming performances in Bellevue, WA (livestreamed), Omaha, NE, and Mission Woods, KS.
The brand new Echolocate, commissioned for saxophone and percussion by the Hutchens/Myers Duo, receives its premiere October 26th at the University of South Carolina.
My first film score for The Real Charlie Chaplin is making the festival rounds this Fall. See a review here. It premiered a Telluride and will be released in theaters this fall and then air on Showtime.
THE REAL CHARLIE CHAPLIN. Courtesy of SHOWTIME / TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
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
Arx Duo premieres Evergreen, a 30-minute, five movement percussion duo, presented by Seattle’s Sustain Music Project.
Presented by Sustain Music Project
Performed by arx duo (Garrett Arney and Mari Yoshinaga)
Artwork by Eva Vernitska
Middle Ground, an album recorded by violinist Kate Stenberg, features this work in three movements. Please check out this beautiful performance and read the liner notes by the engaging music journalist Vanessa Ague.
The digital album can be ordered through Other Minds Records here: https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/middle-ground
Credits:
releases March 12, 2021
Kate Stenberg - Violin
Produced by Robert Honstein
Recorded and edited by Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, NY
Mixed by Devin Greenwood at the Honey Jar, Brooklyn, NY
Mastered by Andrew Weathers
Video by Four/Ten media (Kevin Eikenberg and Evan Chapman)
Design by Laura Grey with Molly Haig
Liner Notes by Vanessa Ague
Middle Ground was commissioned by Kat Kroll, Barbara Sapienza, and Nancy Karp + Dancers and premiered February 10, 2016 by Kate Stenberg at the ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA
Gratitude and thanks to Kate Stenberg, Ryan Streber, Devin Greenwood, Laura Grey, Evan Chapman, Kevin Eikenberg, Other Minds, Andrew Weathers, Vanessa Ague, Nancy Karp, Kat Kroll, Barbara Sapienza, Nick Noyes, and Thekla Hammond.
Check out David Weininger’s high praise of Soul House!
Read the review here:
Pull Quote:
As the months dragged on and our state of isolation never truly lifted, the piece I came back to the most was Robert Honstein's “Soul House,” commissioned and recorded by Hub New Music (New Amsterdam). Honstein's piece is a portrait of the house in New Jersey where he grew up, sketched with deep beauty and just enough grit to make it seem honest. Most of us have spent this year confined to our homes, which has meant a particular, persistent kind of gloom — for me and, I suspect, many others. During those moments, “Soul House” was there to remind me that there can be magic even in an overfamiliar dwelling, if you make the effort to look for it. My year would have been a lot tougher without it.
