Stanley Grill, Composer

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Making the world better, one note at a time. A classical composer with a passion for medieval and Renaissance music. Two main themes permeate many of my works – music composed in an attempt to translate something about the nature of the physical world and music composed to inspire and promote world peace. If you enjoy the music you hear on my website and want to collaborate, let's chat! Member: Recording Academy, ASCAP
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Not that spinning notes does any good but just saying…

https://on.soundcloud.com/xy9cykSIXXIJdOFprs

Against War

Coming of age in the '60s, I absorbed in my core a belief that peace was possible. In that small instant of time, it did seem to an optimistic and naïve teenager, that the millions of voices protestin

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Living (and composing) in the Anthropocene

By nature, I’m a loner and a contemplative – not an activist. By practice, I’m a composer – and music has, since childhood, been a source of solace and a

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Happy to learn this wound up on a SoundCloud playlist today. Performed by Allison Brewster Franzetti.
Busy setting poems from this anthology to music for 2 mezzo sopranos and 2 violas. A companion piece to my recently completed JERUSALEM, EARTHLY AND DIVINE (poems by Lea Goldberg).

APHORISMS II for viola and piano. Brett Deubner, viola and Allison Brewster Franzetti, piano.

https://on.soundcloud.com/178wk3f2W17BL2GSYu

Aphorisms II

A compilation of music for viola and piano, cello and piano and solo piano. Fantasy for Viola and Piano. Inspired by the great fantasies composed by Mozart and Schubert, although continuously played,

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Some thoughts on what makes classical music unique | Stanley Grill Classical Music Composer | Music Can Change The World | Beauty, Harmony, Peace

Sharing some thoughts evoked by two coinciding things. First, I’ve been listening to more jazz than usual, prompted by some of the Substack accounts I

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Prodigies | Stanley Grill Classical Music Composer | Music Can Change The World | Beauty, Harmony, Peace

Not infrequently, when browsing for music to listen to, the search criteria I enter is "complete symphonies" - and then I see what pops up. There are a

Stanley Grill Classical Music Composer

APHORISMS IV with cellist Christina Gullans and pianist Allison Brewster Franzetti. The music is dedicated to my mother-in-law, Olivia Koopalethes and was composed at her bedside during her last days.

The fourth in my series of musical aphorisms, it presents a series of somewhat, but not always connected musical ideas, similar to the way a book of aphorisms presents a series of terse ideas.

https://on.soundcloud.com/hfe3buBlCVQ0n6Cdj1

Aphorisms IV

A compilation of chamber music for viola and piano, cello and piano and solo piano. Fantasy for Viola and Piano. Inspired by the great fantasies composed by Mozart and Schubert, although continuousl

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Sharing a link to the score to my latest composition - JERUSALEM, EARTHLY AND DIVINE. A triptych of poems from “On the Surface of Silence, The Last Poems of Lea Goldberg” set for 2 mezzo sopranos and 2 violas. Translations by Rachel Tzvia Back.

Next up, settings of poems from “Shiva, Poems of October 7” for the same instrumentation. Part of a series that I hope to record next year.

https://www.stangrillcomposer.com/compositions/jerusalem-earthly-and-divine/

Jerusalem, Earthly and Divine - Stanley Grill Classical Music Composer

Stanley Grill Classical Music Composer