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Orpheus in Meikai for Koto and String Quartet

(Scene 3. The Journey)

Inwood Art Works presents

FantAsia!

Featuring INTERWOVEN

Sunday, November 15, 2026 – 2:00pm

Good Shepherd Auditorium

620 Isham Street

New York, NY 10034 

Al Capone: A Portrait Miniature 

       (Rhapsody on a Theme) from the opera

Al Capone and Family

Saturday, October 3, 2026

Orchestra 2001 presents

Jie Jin, cello and Nina Siniakova, piano 

Al Capone’s Prison Cell 

Eastern State Penitentiary

2027 Fairmount Avenue

Philadelphia 19130

Orpheus in Meikai for Koto and String Quartet

(Scene 3. The Journey)

February 25, 2026 - 8:00pm

The Museum of Chinese in America

215 Centre Street

New York, NY 10013

https://www.mocanyc.org/event/moca-performs-strings-of-fortune/

Friday, March 6, 2026- 7:00 pm

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Newly Published by Subito Music

"In the blink of an eye ..." from Japan Songs(commissioned and presented by Kyo-Shin Arts)

Score and parts available from Sheet Music Plus:

"In the blink of an eye ..."

Complete Japan Songs score and parts available from Subito Music:

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Japan Songs

Digital download:

Japan Songs

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Published: “Scriabin’s Compositional Methods: Analysis and Review“

by Jay Reise 

Journal of The Scriabin Society of America 

Vol. 16, No. 1 Spring 2024, pp. 47-99

          Scriabin’s Compositional Methods

       (click to download)    

In this article, I offer an analysis and review of Scriabin’s methods in the context of recent discoveries.

This essay is an expanding of my earlier voice-leading analysis, presented in my 1983 article “Late Skriabin: Some Principles Behind the Style,” and contextualizes it with scholarship over the past 40 years. A major goal of this new paper is to explain every note (Scriabin said,“...there is not one note unaccounted for”) in as direct a manner as possible such that one can hear the procedures being discussed in the music itself. In many of the musical examples, I present the relevant scales and synthetic harmonies so the reader can readily hear and compare the analysis in the text with the example. I review and discuss issues of octatonic and whole-tone orthography, orthographic inconsistencies, the sources and voice leadings of tones foreign to the octatonic and whole-tone scales, and the roles of the synthetic harmony and acoustic scales. The latter includes discussion of how the voice leading of foreign tones contributes to the creation of his “synthetic harmony” (Scriabin’s term for the “mystic chord”) musical syntax. I also discuss the importance of registers as well as the functions and contexts of the scales and subsets. Finally, I review the scales Scriabin uses that contain more than eight notes, and present evidence that they too fall within the octatonic domain. 

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Video Recording

Starless Nocturne for solo violin

An Vedi, violin

             Starless Nocturne  (click for video)

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Now available online:

The Warrior Violinist  (click for video)

(world premiere)

DAVOOD GHADAMI, narrator ("Kush" on Eastenders)

English Symphony Orchestra

Zoë Beyers, violin

Kenneth Woods, conductor

In the blink of an eye…  (click for video)

A miniature song cycle based on ancient Japanese   poems for soprano, shakuhachi, violin, cello and piano

Deborah Lifton, soprano

Kyo-Shin-An Arts 

Part of JAPAN SONGS (Six commissioned songs based on Japanese waka poetry)

Also includes settings by Victoria Bond, Douglas J. Cuomo, James Matheson, Paul Moravec, and Aleksandra Vrebalov.

All poems translated from the original Japanese by Thomas E. McAuley, www. wakapoetry.net

JAY REISE