John Lagomarsino
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And now a visit to John’s Time Capsule. I found the mp3 of this piano trio the other day. It’s the second movement of a piece called “Recollections of an Aging Secret Agent” (the first movement is, well, terrible, so I’m not posting it here). The file date is December of 2007, so I assume I wrote this as the final assignment of that semester’s composition class. It’s piano, cello, and violin, and the idea seems to have been variations of a theme. I like it, generally, though there are sections and orchestration choices that I would change now. The audio below is (obviously) a computer-played demo that I handed in.

It’s also funny how this demo was created. I seem to remember that it was my first time really using Reason (on a PC!) for anything, and I basically made Finale channel MIDI into Reason’s factory sounds. All things considered, it’s actually decent-sounding, especially since it was 2007. My, how things have changed.

If you’re interested, you can also see the woefully under-marked PDF of the score. It’s cool-looking, if nothing else. And of course, if you want to actually perform it or something, just let me know before you do!

This past week was a busy one!  Along with MDing The Three Little Pigs with the West Hudson Council for the Arts, we finished up the final project of the first year in the BMI Workshop.  I got to work with the incredibly talented Jake Honoroff on a 10-Minute musical called Re: My Luck.  We hassled some awesome performers into putting it on its feet, so many thanks to Jeannine Frumess, Patrick Gallagher, and Jon Fuller for their enormous help.  Luckily, we have a video of the reading, so enjoy!

Another (semi) song!  This one’s a little old now, but it’s a favorite of mine.

This was a collaboration with the very funny Jim Merritt, a fellow member of the BMI workshop.  The song was our submission for an assignment.  We were to write a charm song for a musical adaptation of “It’s A Wonderful Life.”  This song is for Clarence, the guardian angel, when he gets to Earth.  Perhaps it’s not the most appropriate music for Clarence, but it’s a heck of a lot of fun.  And I’m particularly fond of the piano part.

Here it is, another full-length song! I heard recently that there are only four real phone booths left in New York City. It must be really depressing for those booths to see all their friends disappearing like that, so I gave one a voice. And a cowbell. Lyrics and MP3 download after the break!

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This has been a pretty hectic week, as it turns out.  So, today’s ditty is another non-traditional one; sorry.  This one is actually from over a year ago, from one of my composition classes.  It’s kind of a musical theater/art piece setting of The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein.  Today I finally got around to making the demo of the first section.  All the instruments are kind of cheap and fake-sounding, but they get the point across.

Special treat! Today’s ditty is a full-length song! I’d like to thank Vassar College for giving me the fodder for this spritely work.