OmniCosm Studios Featuring Original Concertos by Composer Adolf Schaller

Viola/Violin Concerto #1 "The Wandering Mathematician" ("TWM#1") In 4 Movements	Total Size (All 4 files): 307kb Total Running Time (All Four movements): Approximately 39.75 minutes	This Violin (and/or Viola concerto - there is a version of each, and a third which combines the contributions of both with two soloists) in 4 movements was composed in homage to the elegant expressability of the bowed string instrument. The work was largely inspired by what might have been had life's path been deflected by more favorable circumstances: the young Schaller was once offered to study the viola by his music teacher Miss Young in the 2nd grade, a prospect which thrilled him. She loaned him a beautiful viola - a marvel of craftsmanship - which he excitedly brought home to show his parents. Much to his regret, economics and the conservative "practical" advice they offered suggesting that he had enough to study prevailed, and the incipent young violist reluctantly relinquished the instrument. The Concerto was composed during the Winter and Spring of 2001-2002, utilizing arrangements of several themes from piano pieces composed by Schaller in his early teens. It is dedicated to the memory of his maternal grandmother, Karoline Rauscher, who passed away shortly before work on the concerto began. Its title, "The Wandering Mathematician" characterizes both the internal mathematical "meta-structure" of the composition as well as the external and emotional expression of the mathematical experience, told intimately as a story of the generic mathematical process. Detailed notes on the programmatic structure of this work will be available soon.
*TWM#1-Movement One*	File Size: 82kb Running Time: 12:20	The Challenge: Parts: 1.The Encounter; 2.The Desire; 3.The Plan; 4.The False Start; 5.The Conceptual Breakthrough
*TWM#1-Movement Two*	File Size: 89kb Running Time: 11:29	The Execution: Parts: 1.The Trials; 2.The New Approach; 3.The Hopeful Doldrums; 4.The Detour; 5. Resume Trials
*TWM#1-Movement Three*	File Size: 58kb Running Time: 07:59	The Consummation: Parts: 1. Mathematical Joy; 2.Mathematical Contentment; 3.Mathematical Awe
*TWM#1-Movement Four*	File Size: 80kb Running Time: 06:56	The Aftermath: Parts: 1. The Test; 2. The Confirmation; 3. The Celebration
Trumpet Concerto #1 In 3 Movements *TC#1-Final Movement*	File Size: 80kb Running Time: 05:42	The Trumpet Concerto #1 was composed in April of 2001, for Schaller's cousin Kurt Zemaitaitis, an accomplished trumpet player currently in the armed forces. It is dedicated to his father Gus, himself a devotee of the brass instrument, and one of the dearest gentleman the composer has had the privilege of knowing. As is the case with the Violin/Viola Concerto, the final movement sampled here features the distillation of all of the themes introduced in the earlier movements, framed by variations on a cadence of the main score for the highly-regarded mid-seventies science series hosted by scientist Jacob Bronowski, "The Ascent of Man", composed by director Adrian Malone, who also directed astronomer Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" and with whom the present composer closely worked (on the latter series) and admired greatly. The concerto finishes with an exuberant and frenzied flurry of interlaced melodic patterns recalling the structured mathematical "chaos" recognized in many natural phenomena such as ocean waves, weather patterns, and the cognitive operations of the human brain. The first two movements are still being digitally transcribed; the complete concerto will be posted in the near future.
"Millennium Organ Concerto" Concerto for Pipe Organ and Orchestra, in 3 Movements 3rd Movement: Finale	File Size: 153kb Running Time: 08:18	NEW Composed during the final weeks of the last Millennium, this organ concerto condenses the events which transpired during the last 1000 years of human history. The 3rd movement finale is featured here, summarizing the accelerating pace of cultural evolution and technological progress during the final century of the last Millennium, while humanity looks down the two avenues of time: to the past and our memory, where both loved ones and tyrants are forever consigned...and toward the future with an uneasy mix of anticipation and trepidation. The composition is fondly dedicated to all those who have positively contributed - of their labor, wit and heart - to the improvement of the Human Condition, with the fervent hope that such efforts, no matter how humble, may be expected to reliably continue in the future; our descendants shall need them dearly. The first two movements will be posted in the near future, along with a detailed note.


	This section of the OmniCosm Sound Library features a selection of Concerti by Adolf Schaller.