Concertimento

Happy Monday- Since I started this blog, I realized that it is hard to maintain if you don't sit in front of a computer everyday. I don't. My day job is on film sets where I'm serving the snacks (more on that later). So I'm trying to focus more on getting more thoughts out. And since its about these concertimentos below is an updated list of finished works in the series. I began in January of 2006. And if any of these works interest you, I'll send you a score! ______________________________________________________________________________ CONCERTIMENTI #1 - VIOLIN - ob, bs, fh, perc., strings #2 - PIANO - cl, bcl,asax, tenor sax, fh, tuba, vibes, perc, strings #3 - VIOLA - asax, bari sax, fh, tr, tbone, tuba, piano, bass, perc #4 - TRIO "25 for Mark Morris" - oboe, violin, cello #5 - TRIO "777" for flute, clarinet, bassoon #6 - SEXTET "New Symphony" - flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, perc #7 - "Feldmusic Vancouver" - fl,

My name is Charles Waters. I am a composer and performer living in Brooklyn. I am originally from North Carolina via Atlanta now in beginning my second (?) decade here in the Big Apple. I started this blog to explain some of my compositional working methods - in particular this new style or form of works that I call CONCERTIMENTO . But also to write about shows I see(a lot), thing I see ( strange!) encounters I have and just basic musical life in my late-thirties. I would be part of what I call the SUBMERGING COMPOSERS GROUP. So first disclosure and second definitions about my work because I think "owning" words about ones art is vital in the post-post modern - what I refer to as REMODERN -times. So first I am rather uneducated in terms of being a 21C composer. I was trained pencil and paper style in 80's with Dr. Scott Meister at Appalachian State University. And still to this day I compose on pen and paper. I have rarely had problems with any one understanding my m