{"product_id":"karchin-five-compositions_aec-bri9543-2","title":"Karchin - Five Compositions","description":"\u003cp\u003eComposer Louis Karchin has created a substantial body of work to date, including his recent opera \"Jane Eyre\" (recorded for NAXOS) and more than half a dozen pieces for orchestra, and a plethora of chamber and vocal compositions. BRIDGE's second Karchin release presents five recent works composed during the past decade 2009-2019, featuring the composer's \"Chamber Symphony\" (2009). Over a career spanning more than four decades, composer LOUIS KARCHIN has amassed a portfolio of over 95 compositions, appeared as conductor with numerous performing ensembles, co-founded new music groups, including the Chamber Players of the League-ISCM, the Orchestra of the League of Composers, the Washington Square Ensemble, and the Harvard Group for New Music, and overseen the formation of a graduate program in music composition at New York University. His works have garnered distinguished honors, including three awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, four National Endowment for the Arts Awards, and Koussevitzky, Barlow, and Fromm commissions. A citation from the American Academy praised his Songs of John Keats as \"a striking conception, in which the sonic properties of the poetry interact with musical material in unprecedented fusion.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bridge","offers":[{"title":"New \/ CD \/ Five Compositions Bridge","offer_id":47239621542196,"sku":"BRI9543.2","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0790\/7436\/1652\/files\/3862603-2627720.jpg?v=1773247429","url":"https:\/\/www.fye.com\/products\/karchin-five-compositions_aec-bri9543-2","provider":"FYE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}