Sergio Barer

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Should we write about the issues of the day or about eternal values?

Written by admin on March 3, 2020

This is a question that I have pondered since I started composing. One wants to add one’s voice to the chorus looking to identify and resolve the pressing issues of the day and yet, one wonders if talking, or writing music, in this case, about them is the best way […] Read more »

Categories: Thoughts on Music - Tags: classical music, composer, Music

Why Classical Music?

Written by admin on January 6, 2020

One question I have had to answer a few times is why did I chose to compose classical music as  opposed to popular music or jazz. I remember an answer I gave on a TV interview some years ago about the difference between popular music and classical. You may not […] Read more »

Categories: Thoughts on Music - Tags: classical music', composer, Music

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It is now Summer of 2022. There were several premieres of new works in the Spring.  A Song and a Prayer, based on some texts about music in prayer by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and commissioned by Whittier College was premiered in May 12 and then performed again in 2 concerts on May 14 & 16.  Then on June 5th there was the premiere of Ode to Music by the San Fernando Valley Master Chorale. And there was a preview of my work Prayer and Praise, which forms part of a work about Rabbi Abraham  Joshua Heschel being done by the Helfman Composers Group, to which I belong, on June 4th.

And I just finished recording and doing videos for the 11 miniatures that form the work Scenes of their Childhood! This was my first recording in a long time as I have been more involved in composing than in performing, but it helped me get back into the habit of practicing and performing for others. The videos are listed on the welcome page and will be there for this season. I am also looking to collaborate with video artists to do some interesting renditions of the same works.

My work The Nightmare and the Dream, a full oratorio about Herzl and the creation of Israel, will be premiered probably at the beginning of the Winter of 2023. It was postponed for logistic reasons but even the rehearsal version with piano accompaniment  is finished now. Rehearsals will start in August, and we did a sung video previewing the last movement of the work called “The Pioneers”. You can contact me if you want to hear it.

I have continued with my podcast “Let’s Talk About Music”, an informal conversation I hold mostly with other composers, about music. It is not so much a biographical interview but a musical exploration of a couple of works  of the composer in which we exchange opinions and ideas, always in good cheer. Click on their names to hear the podcasts with composers Dale Trumbore and Zanaida Robles.

 

 

 

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