Lawrence Mossy Music

Mostly Moss

SSFS was delighted to host The Fifth Annual SBP Memorial Concert "Mostly Moss" Featuring the music of contemporary classical composer Lawrence Moss. Please watch performance below.

New Dawn CD released

Moss doesn't grow under his feet, nor between his ears. Indeed, at a spry 91 years of age, Lawrence Moss is at the top of his game and enjoying an active life of family and prolific composing following 56 years of teaching. With New Dawn, he takes us on journeys of promise and possibility. New Dawn is also the title of a tone poem for orchestra based on five Tang Dynasty poems, and if you notice a poetic theme that connects many of the tracks on this album you wouldnt be far wrong.

Purchase New Dawn on Amazon, or listen to samples of tracks here.

Another Dawn: The Tianjin Conservatory

Enjoy this beautiful performance of Another Dawn, composed by Larry Moss at Tianjin Music Conservatory in Tianjin, China

Alive and Composing: Lawrence Moss

Interview with Composer

Reviews

Phillip George had this to say in Twentieth Century Music
June 1999

"There's a little bit of the everyday and a little bit of the miraculous in Lawrence Moss's Capstone release, Miracles… Like some contemporary Schubertian Shepherd on the Rock, Moss has a gift for turning the commonplace into something quite fresh, reflecting the youth of the collaborators, child poets - from Australia, the United States, and New Zealand - ranging in age from four to 13.

Joseph McLellan in the Washington Post at the Composer's Forum in Washington, DC
Sept. 26, 1963

"The Moss piece, Apresludes for Flute and Percussion..., is a virtuoso exercise for flute and percussion … It is evocative, witty, powerful and delicate – particularly in its rich array of percussion textures."

Egil Gundersen of BrassBulletin writes:
March, 1987 | Switzerland

"Das Annapolis Brass Quintet liefert uns seine Super-Affuehrung von Moss' fantastischem Flight, einer Komposition, die gut zu seiner Brillanz und Virtuositaet passt."

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