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Akin to Fire
"...a lyricism that's disarmingly attractive."
--The Star Ledger
“…Wojcik writes busy, enthusiastic music in an attractive harmonic language that neatly blends consonance and dissonance….a composer of creativity, craft, and imagination.”
--Barry Kilpatrick, American Record Guide, July/August 2007
Albany Records writes, “…His music is emotionally direct and spontaneous, with elements of jazz in the Dance Symphony and a keen understanding of the creativity of young children in The Art Spirit, in which the composer was given the task of creating symphonic movements in response to students’ artwork. Akin to Fire reflects a musical kinship the composer felt to Beethoven’s Grosse Fugue, Op. 133 which he reexamined while in the middle of writing the work. But his comments about Jubilee, commissioned by the New Jersey Youth Symphony, best sum up his aesthetic: “My inspiration for this overture came from the young musicians themselves who possessed a wonderful level of energy, dedication, and love of music. I also could not help but notice a “love” of cell phones, video games and chatting when not engrossed in music making. As a result, I incorporated musical ideas that suggest those things into the compositional fabric.”
$16.99