Alvin Singleton Featured in Chamber Music Magazine

Our own Alvin Singleton is the "Featured American Composer" in the most recent issue of Chamber Music magazine, a publication of Chamber Music America. Written by composer and music critic Kyle Gann, the Singleton feature is much more than an in depth interview, in fact it is a two page spread that succinctly conveys the essence and aesthetic of Singleton's music:

[Singleton's] music is soulful, with an understated simplicity that I particularly prize. I want him to be ignored and underrated so I can knowingly laud him as far better than the current run of orchestral race horses. But somehow, despite his music's poignant subtlety, his reputation needs no help from the likes of me. He's doing just fine.

Despite the studied economy of his means and the set character of his images, the music is never cold ... nor abstract. It glows with warmth, it hovers in the air, it paces itself with a glacial but palpably intuitive momentum. It refuses to pander to either academicism or populism, but is so honest and self-assured that listeners flock to it anyway.

Singleton is currently finishing a new work for chorus and chamber orchestra on an original text by Patricia Hampl celebrating the 100th anniversary and re-dedication of the Fort Greene Park Martyrs' Monument in Brooklyn. His next commission will be a new work for the Walden Chamber Players.

To read the full article, please go to www.chamber-music.org.

To learn more on the music of Alvin Singleton, visit www.alvinsingleton.com.