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Masterful, in the grand American tradition of Copeland and Bernstein.
Hi Donn, Congratulations on the recent film placement! We are together in this. All the best, Stelios
Thanks! Congrats to you too!
Hi Donn, Thank you for the superlative review of my piece "The Midnight Waltz." I really appreciate your kind words. I listened to most of your pieces. Excellent work both in composition and performance. I admired "The Plight of the Martyrs": very balanced and serious work, great development of themes and motifs, and clear and inspired orchestration. I would enjoy to continue the discussion, as you suggested. You can email me from my website www.danlazarescoumusic.com if you wish. Take care, Dan
I'll do it!
Hi Donn I am very impressed with both the East and West Quantum Leap Symphonic Library and LA Scoring Strings. You have given me something to think about as listening to some more of your compositions has shown me the importance iof good equipment. Many thanks for your advice, Dave Mason
Thanks, Dave, hope you can get them. I'd love to hear your pieces updated with the new samples, as well as new music inspired by them!
Once again, thank up for the words of encouragement. I wonder if you would be good enough to give me some advice. You mention upgrading my sound library; at the moment I am using Sibelius 7 and the Garritan Personal Orchestra 4 plus Garritan Big Band. What would you suggest I could add to enhance this? Hope to hear from you. Dave Mason
Hi Dave! Garriton is a good value, and a great starter library, but to add the realism you're looking for, something like the East West Quantum Leap symphonic libraries are good. Even if you can't get the full package, some of their smaller sample libraries with the basic instruments are good too. Also, LA scoring strings is good as a string library, and the Vienna symphonic library is good. I've also heard good things about the sonic implants sample library, but I haven't heard it. To give some examples from my site, "Adagio for orchestra" is a mix of EWQLSO and vienna, as is "Theme to an imaginary disney movie," while "Crown of thorns" is entirely EWQLSO. Hope this helps!
Hi, Thank you so much for your compliments and your review-I just read it. It is the most valuable and thorough review I 've ever had and I really appreciate it. In all points you are right. I also listened to some of your tracks and I have to say that you have an excellent work out there. Keep on going, you have composed some very good melodic lines and all of them are supported by excellent arrangement and instrumentation. This is the most succesfull combination and a very rare gift. So, I only have to say: keep on going!
Thank you Stelios. Coming from a composer of your caliber, that's high praise! Thanks!
Hi Stelios! I just had the pleasure of reviewing one of your pieces. Great job! Since we compose in similar fields, I'd like to invite you to hear some of my orchestral work as well. In the meantime, I'd like to take the opportunity to listen to more of your music and keep in touch.
That would be wonderful. Thank you for taking the time to review my track. I will listen to yours asap and I will stay in touch
Greetings Mr. Hall- Many thanks for your fine words regarding "Cross The Rubicon". I am glad you enjoyed it. Once again I find your commentary insightful and cogent. -Benjamin Stone
Thanks Benjamin, I find the same qualities you attribute to my reviews in your music!!
Hi Donn, thank you for your review of''A Song for Mary''your words of encouragement are much appreciated. I have listened to ''Theme to an imaginary love story'' and see the similarities. My piece is a work in progress and I aspire to orchestrate to something near your standard. I love your use of Cymbals and Timpani for effect. I am fairly new to composing my own music so listening to you and other composers is very helpful so many thanks. All the best Dave Mason
If you're new to composition, then your doing really well, because your music sounds experienced. I hope you can upgrade your sample library soon, it'll really help to carry your pieces across even more!
Hi Peter! Thanks for the review of my song "hope for the hopeless." The lyric you refer to about "lovable man" actually says "Your the love that saved this UN-lovable man." Just so you know. I listened to your songs, and I can see why they're well received.
That makes a lot more sense. That's a very good song. Thanks for listening to my own and your comment. Cheers.
Greetings Mr. Hall- Thank you for your gracious review. I appreciate your commentary and insight. It was spot on. -Benjamin Stone
No problem, Benjamin!
Great stuff, Vladimir! Huge percussion sounds, outstanding samples, and really good composition for film!
Thanks D.G.Just listened your music.I like very romantic , emotional feel and high quality.
Hi D.G., and thank you for the very honest and indepth review of "Denouement/Farewell"/. This was written purely from the heart when I learned of the death of my uncle. I just sat at the piano and it was as if my tears were flowing through my fingers. I wrote this this a triubute and never meant it to be commercial. Thank you for appreciating the piece and hope you like some of my other music. All the best, Felice Kaye-Cooper
Yep, it sounds like a lot of emotion went into that piece, thanks for sharing the story behind it!
I appreciate you review of my piece 'The Road to Killeen' good comments . You asked if that was my style, actually thats far from it. I do just about anything and everything as you will see and hear if you drop by and check out my other stuff which is very diverse. Regards, Mike.
hi Donn, New Mexico a beautiful place, and thanx for your appropriate review of Second Chance, the backing full instrumental to actually TWO of my country vocal versions, one male and the other female--you asked, so i'll tell you to go to my site and just look for "Second Chance", (male) or (female)...i think both came out ok, not produced nor sung by myself, but my tune of course as a writer...i don't write country much anymore, N-ville says you need to make it THERE, though i don't agree, too much reality...check out what you have time for on my page, and many thanks for your comments on the instrumental backing track, and all the best to you and yours. let me know what you think of the vocals if you have the time/inclination... warren hein, songwriter/owner/creator/visionary/ fool/etc etc etc...LOL--i camped out about 50 miles south of albuquerque in 1976, full moon, and COYOTES in the distance...like an American dream...
Hi D.G. Thanks for your time in writing a very thorough review of my song Vita Brevis. I'm glad you interpreted my musical intentions spot on. No reviewer have ever deserved a 5 for "beyond the call of duty" reviewing as much as you. It sounds great on your page, too. Dramatic orchestral writing. Great vocal on Hope for the Hopeless. I wish you the best. Lennart
Thanks Lennart! I Look forward to keeping in touch and sharing our music in the future!
Your review of Brooke's performance was clearly the best and most intelligent review that I have seen thus far at Broadjam. The review speaks well for the 'flawed' Broadjam review mechanism.....most of their review categories don't apply to music like this! Anyway, thanks for the stellar review, and Kind Regards!
Thanks Rich! I enjoyed some more of your compositions. If you get a chance, feel free to listen to a piece of mine called "Plight of the martyrs."
Hi D.G. Thank you so much for that good review of "You Looked Into My Eyes". Yes, you hit on so many salient points about my composition. I wrote this with the group Procul Harum in mind from their album Grand Hotel. I have a vocal put to it by Phoebe Blume one of the artists on Broadjam and she reallly brought to life. All the best, Felice Kaye-Cooper
Glad to help, Felice! I always enjoy reviewing in the classical section because there's so much interesting music going on. Hey, if you get a chance, maybe you could hear a piece of music of mine in the post romantic classical realm called "plight of the martyrs." Hope you enjoy it as much as I've enjoyed your music!
Hey Ronald- thanks for your review. I appreciated the commentary. I am glad you enjoyed it. -Benjamin
Hi! Love your music. Great talent, and great skill in modern orchestration, but beyond that, good MUSIC with a capital M. Feel free to listen to a piece of mine in a similar vein called "plight of the martyrs."
Mr. Hall, We composers go mucking about looking for inspiration in solitude. Often the approval we get is from someone close who loves us dearly and for that reason can't be trusted. Coming from a talent like you any approval gives me hope that someday I may make a little money from my work. Thank you. I will have a listen to your suggested piece. Are you asking for a review?
Don't quite understand. The piece you reviewed has no added reverb at all except for the tail that is built in to a single patch. It has a single theme well-defined too short for any development & it is part of a 5 piece suite.
Hi Kenneth! You posted this comment a year ago, and I apologize for not getting back to you, but I signed off of broad jam for a while, and just recently started signing back on and saw your comment, so I thought I'd post a reply. I re listened to your piece called "the Minoans of Crete (From Aegean Suite)" and, at least from the standpoint of reverb, I have to maintain my original comment. Even though its only one patch that has the long tail, that tail doesn't sound like natural orchestral reverb. Listen to the nature of the reverb tail at the 23 second mark, and the 47 second mark. it sounds unnatural and processed. Maybe it's just me, but when I hear a composer scoring for orchestra, I think for the sake of acheiving the proper balance for mixing classic orchestral music, long reverb/delays, especially ones that have almost a chorusing affect like this one does are counter productive. I thinks its good music, and I'd love to hear it sounding a bit more authentically orchestral. Even though its the reverb tail of only one patch, that one patch's tail really stands out. If that's the sound you were after, then I can respect that, but I think your piece could come across even better without it. As for my critique of the development, please keep in mind that we review music without knowing the context (a limitation of broad jam). When I hear it in the context of your whole suite, I can see what you're saying, but there's no way to know that during the review process. Perhaps in the future I'll qualify such statements when reviewing music in the classical section. Anyway, Good luck with your endeavors!!
thanx 4 the review! alva