Grand Salto Theatre releases 5 videos: "BeeBo and Bop at Home"
Since the beginning of December 2020, The Grand Salto Theatre has been releasing short videos featuring friendly clowns BeeBo and Bop discovering fun activities around their home.
A longtime collaborator with Zita Nyarady (one half of The Grand Salto), Alex Eddington composed theme music and cues for the videos.
Since the beginning of December 2020, The Grand Salto Theatre has been releasing short videos featuring friendly clowns BeeBo and Bop discovering fun activities around their home. The Grand Salto is a Toronto-based company known for a number of highly physical clown and comedy acts, including Philip and Lucinda.
A longtime collaborator with Zita Nyarady (one half of The Grand Salto), Alex Eddington composed theme music and cues for the videos.
BeeBo and Bop at Home is a series of 5 shorts intended for pre-schoolers and other young viewers. With no spoken language, they are also suited to an international audience.
The full series is streaming at The Grand Salto’s Youtube Channel.
Announcing 2020/21 consortium commission opportunity: Human Rights Suite for adaptable ensemble
Composer Alex Eddington is seeking school ensembles, music teachers and other individuals to co-commission a suite of new pieces for adaptable ensemble and optional percussion.
Each short movement (ca. 30-45 seconds) will be based on an Article in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations.
Composer Alex Eddington is seeking school ensembles, music teachers and other individuals to co-commission a suite of new pieces for adaptable ensemble and optional percussion.
Each short movement (ca. 30-45 seconds) will be based on an Article in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations.
NEW: Sign up anytime to be a part of the consortium (rolling deadline).
Scores will become available to all consortium participants as soon as they are available, beginning in October 2020.
Join Alex in his first-ever Choir Commissioning Consortium!
Composer Alex Eddington is seeking amateur choirs (SATB/SAB/SA/TB/unis.) to join a consortium for the 2019/20 season.
Up to 11 choirs will co-commission a new piece for choir and piano: a setting of Lotte Kramer’s beautiful poem “Boy With Orange (out of Kosovo)”.
Sign-up by July 31, 2019 (NEW DEADLINE) - premiere anytime during the 19/20 season!
Composer Alex Eddington is seeking amateur choirs (SATB/SAB/SA/TB/unis.) to join a consortium for the 2019/20 season.
Up to 11 choirs will co-commission a new piece for choir and piano: a setting of Lotte Kramer’s beautiful poem “Boy With Orange (out of Kosovo)”.
Sign-up by July 31, 2019 (NEW DEADLINE) - premiere anytime during the 19/20 season!
Link below for info.
The Canadian Piano Left Hand Commissioning Project - crowdfunding seven new works by Canadian composers
Adam Scime - a wonderful bassist, pianist and composer - broke his right hand, and had to stop playing bass while it heals. But Adam is turning lemons into an exquisite fountain of lemonade! He wants to commission seven Canadian composers - including Alex Eddington - to write new left-hand piano pieces for him to premiere this May.
My friend Adam Scime - a wonderful bassist, pianist and composer - broke his right hand, and had to stop playing bass while it heals. But Adam is turning lemons into an exquisite fountain of lemonade! He wants to commission seven Canadian composers - including me - to write new left-hand piano pieces for him to premiere this May.
Just look at this composer line-up. I'm seriously woozy to be in this company:
Christopher Butterfield
Taylor Brook
Anna Hostman
Emilie LeBel
Adam Sherkin
Nick Storring
Christina Volpini
and me (Alex Eddington)
(And if you weren't aware, left-hand piano music is a pretty huge genre, especially taking off in the early 20th century for pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right hand in WWI)
Adam has put out a call for crowdfunding donations, with the goal of paying us composers for our time. Every amount pledged will go 100% to commission fees. You can choose which composer your pledge will support, and then they will DEDICATE their new left-handed piano piece to you - along with the other commissioners... unless you want to sponsor one entire piece for $300!
(Adam himself is doing this for the fun and the love of it...)
Government arts grants are a tenuous way for composers to be paid for their work, so I think it's very positive to see colleagues, fans and fams getting behind crowdfunding for commissioning. It needs to be the right project of course... and this one strikes the right (…well, left-handed) notes.
Thanks for clicking and reading, friends!
Alex