American composer Tom Myron was born November 15, 1959 in Troy, NY. His compositions have been commissioned and performed by the Kennedy Center, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Portland Symphony Orchestra, the Eclipse Chamber Orchestra, the Atlantic Classical Orchestra, the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, the Topeka Symphony, the Yale Symphony Orchestra, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Bangor Symphony and the Lamont Symphony at Denver University.
He works regularly as an arranger for the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, writing for singers Rosanne Cash, Kelli O'Hara, Maxi Priest & Phil Stacey, the Young People's Chorus of New York City, the band Le Vent du Nord & others. His film scores include Wilderness & Spirit; A Mountain Called Katahdin and the upcoming Henry David Thoreau; Surveyor of the Soul, both from Films by Huey.
Individual soloists and chamber ensembles that regularly perform Myron's work include violinists Peter Sheppard-Skaerved, Elisabeth Adkins & Kara Eubanks, violist Tsuna Sakamoto, cellist David Darling, the Portland String Quartet, the DaPonte String Quartet and the Potomac String Quartet.
Tom Myron's Violin Concerto No. 2 has been featured twice on Performance Today. Tom Myron lives in Northampton, MA. His works are published by MMB Music Inc.
FREE DOWNLOADS of music by TOM MYRON
Symphony No. 2
Violin Concerto No. 2
Viola Concerto
The Soldier's Return (String Quartet No. 2)
Katahdin (Greatest Mountain)
Contact featuring David Darling
Mille Cherubini in Coro featuring Lee Velta
This Day featuring Andy Voelker
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Monday, May 09, 2005
Träumerei
Two or three times a year I'll dream that I've met one of the great composers of the past. Occasionally the dreams are extremely vivid.
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One Sunday evening in 1985, when I was living in Washington, DC, I was home alone and in a very gloomy mood about the whole business of being a composer. I was writing a big piece for orchestra that had no prospect of performance. I had no professional contacts. What the hell did I think I was doing? The more I thought about it the more agitated I became until I had what I suppose was almost a panic attack. At 2 A.M., utterly exhausted, I fell into bed.
I dreamt that I was standing at the edge of the courtyard between Sage Hall and the Josten Music Library at Smith College. It was a beautiful day. A man exited from the side door of Sage Hall and began walking towards me. I went to meet him halfway. It was Roger Sessions. We stood facing eachother for a moment, then he said "We are men who must express ourselves with the orchestra."
The next day I learned that Roger Sessions had passed away the previous Saturday.
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I dream that I am supposed to meet Philip Glass somewhere but that the plan has been changed at the last minute. Instead I am to meet Carl Ruggles.
I am walking up the steps of a huge, white, rundown 1880's vintage home. The sky is an eerie whitish-gray. Inside, the rooms are all empty and dusty. I hear an amazing bell-like sonority coming from behind a closed door. When I open the door the sound is overwhelming. Ruggles is seated at a huge grand piano. The instrument has no lid and there are cables, chains and pieces of machinery piled inside the piano and spilling out onto the floor. Ruggles stops playing and says, "What you're looking for is the sound inside the sound."
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I'm standing outside. It's winter and snow is falling. The features of the landscape are difficult to make out. A person standing next to me says, "Let me show you something." We walk up a small hill. From the top we can see a frozen pond about thirty yards ahead. There is a man skating on the pond. He moves in big, slow circles. He is of medium build but stocky. He wears a heavy looking tailcoat, a scarf and a big top hat pressed to the back of his head. My guide leans over and whispers, "That's Beethoven."
posted by Tom Myron
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