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By Moonlight

by Jeremy Beck

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A Young Poet Dreams of His Beloved Who Lives Across The River Sao Nan The moon floats to the bosom of the sky, and rests there like a lover; the evening wind passes over the lake, touches and passes, kissing the happy shivering waters. How serene the joy, when things that are made for each other meet and are joined; but ah, how rarely they meet and are joined; the things that are made for each other.
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Echoes of A Young Poet’s Dream Jeremy Beck Some nights the moon doesn’t float, won’t rise. Sleeping - it dreams of the sky. And sometimes evening winds miss a lake; in their hurry, securely in haste - they pass by. These lakes stay calm, untouched, not knowing kisses. Watching winds pass, without happy shivers; they dream of moons safely asleep. The wind - out of breath, out of time.
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Prelude 02:29
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Toccata 04:44
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The Garden of Love William Blake I went to the Garden of Love, and saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, and “Thou shalt not” writ over the door: so I turn’d to the Garden of Love that so many sweet flowers bore; and I saw it was filled with graves, and tombstones where flowers should be; and Priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, and binding with briars my joys and desires.
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Music, When Soft Voices Die Percy Bysshe Shelley Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory. Odours, when sweet vi’lets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heap’d for the beloved’s bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
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Adagio 04:44
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Allegro 03:39
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“by moonlight isn’t just a collection of works - it also provides a certain overview of my compositional life,” says Jeremy Beck.

Bringing together music of his present and past, this selection of orchestral, chamber, and vocal music opens a window into Beck’s sound world. From the celebratory Concertino for two cellos and strings to the pensive Serenade for orchestra, Beck’s musical language is direct and distinctly American. His music embraces a continuum of tonal compositional thought that organically embodies previous developments while moving forward in his own individual style.

Beck’s music has been called “… forceful and expressive. … concise in structure and generous in tonal language, savouring both the dramatic and the poetic” (Gramophone, 2013), while the critic Joshua Kosman has noted that “…novelty isn’t the only thing music can provide, and the moody expressiveness of Beck's writing is its own reward.” (SF Gate, 2013).

Through his music – by turns confident and vulnerable, outgoing and intimate – composer Jeremy Beck reaches out to the world, sharing his artistic vision of the beauty, struggle, and thoughtful wonder that reflects part of our human experience.

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released September 18, 2023

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Jeremy Beck Louisville, Kentucky

Jeremy Beck “knows the importance of embracing the past while also going his own way. … [In] Beck’s forceful and expressive sound world … the writing is concise in structure and generous in tonal language, savouring both the dramatic and the poetic.” (Gramophone Magazine). ... more

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