WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID ABOUT GENE MARLOW'S MUSIC: |
"What a beautiful piece 'Broken Heart' is. Your chords move in unusual and unexpected ways." |
Jack Smalley
Veteran Film and TV Composer/Orchestrator
Professor/Composition, USC
Director of Composition,
The Mancini Institute |
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"Gene Marlow has shown considerable compositional ability in both classical and jazz idioms. His music deserves to be heard by a wider audience." |
Michael Abene,
Associate Director
BMI Jazz Composers Workshop
Professor, Jazz Composition,
Manhattan School of Music |
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"Gene Marlow is a thoughtful, hard-working, promising composer. He can be both surprising and interesting." |
Burt Korall
Author, Critic
Founding Director, BMI Jazz Composers Workshop |
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"Gene Marlow has developed into an accomplished jazz composer. His fresh melodic ideas lay well, especially for a piano trio. I always look forward to hearing his latest offering." |
Dave Meade
Percussionist/Educator
Primary Colors Trio |
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"Gene Marlow's music adopts various styles, often from disparate traditions, and fuses them together establishing his own unique and musically innovative voice." |
Chris Washburne
Trombonist/Composer &
Educator
SYOTOS |
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"Thanks very much for allowing me to arrange your wonderful tune [“Sweetness”] for my first CD with the Numinous Orchestra." |
Joseph C. Phillips Jr.
Composer/arranger/leader “Numinous Orchestra” |
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"Thank you for the incredible gift of music inspired by my sister. “Where Are You Now” is an achingly beautiful song... We were all so deeply moved." |
Elise Horowitz
San Francisco |
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"Eugene Marlow’s compositions combine the best of both classical and jazz. They have a structural integrity and sophistication and a highly creative flair." |
L. Poundie Burstein
Professor of Music
Hunter College and the Graduate Center
The City University of New York |
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"Your setting for Emily Dickinson’s poem “Faith” is delightful." |
Virginia Dupuy
Emily Dickinson Collection
South Methodist University |
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"Gene Marlow's music is original, fun and accessible: harmonic twists and turns mixed with driving rhythms, in traditional forms. A pleasure to play and listen to!" |
Chris Landriau
Director of Music
Trevor Day School |
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"I enjoyed your violin/piano duet 'Aspect D'Amour,' especially the gorgeous melody in the movement entitled 'Afterglow.' For me it suggested a Russian Romance. I would love to play it on the piano." |
Paula Roga |
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"Your remarkable ingenuity in resetting very familiar Hebraic melodies into concert-jazz settings inspires a sense of renewed commitment to our Jewish heritage, and reminds us that we are a surviving people precisely because of our abilities to adapt to new realms and bring our unique culture and philosophies always into the present." |
Charles M. Mirotznik, President
Dance Library of Israel |
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EUGENE MARLOW/COMPOSER
Jazz Compositions:
- "Resolution," Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra under the Direction of Bobby Sanabria, Borden Auditorium, Manhattan School of Music, New York City, 2/16/2006.
- "Curiouser & Curiouser," BMI Jazz Composers Workshop Big Band reading, Musicians Union, New York City, 1/10/2006.
- Provost's Reception (trio), Baruch College, Vertical Campus, 8/25/2005.
- "Resolution," BMI Jazz Composers Workshop Big Band reading, Musicians Union, New York City., 6/28/2005.
- “Step By Step Into the Creative Void,” BMI Jazz Composers Workshop Public Reading/Performance, 4/26/2005.
- “Gentle Breeze,” Andy Laverne Trio, Milt Hinton Jazz Perspectives Concert Series, Baruch College, Engelman Recital Hall, 3/10/2005.
- "La Femme Dans Une Lumiere D’Or,” BMI Jazz Composers Workshop Big Band Public Reading/Performance, Musicians Union, 12/14/2004.
- "Ascent," BMI Jazz Composers Workshop Big Band Public Reading/Performance, Musicians Union, 6/29/2004.
- "Atmospheres," BMI Jazz Composers Workshop Big Band Public Reading/Performance, Musicians Union, 5/25/2004.
- "Wake Up Call," BMI Jazz Composers Workshop Big Band Public Reading/Performance, Musicians Union, 3/30/2004.
- "The Slumbering Giant’s Dream," BMI Jazz Composers Workshop Big Band Public Reading/Performance, Musicians Union, 1/27/2004.
- "Swing Trevor, Forever," commissioned by the Trevor Day School Big Band, premiered at the Winter Instrumental Music Concert , 12/16/2003.
- "Broken Heart," BMI Jazz Composers Workshop Big Band Public Reading/Performance, Musicians Union, 11/25/2003.
- "Let There Be Swing," BMI Jazz Composers Workshop Big Band Public Reading, Musicians Union, 4/21/2003.
- “Conversation,” BMI Jazz Composers Workshop Big Band Public Reading, 2/25/2003.
- "Sweetness," arranged by Joseph C. Phillips, Jr., performed by the Numinous Orchestra, Cutting Room, New York City, 12/20/2002.
- “Down the Road,” performed by Chris Washburne/SYOTOS, Milt Hinton Jazz Perspectives Concert series, Baruch College, 12/5/2002.
- “Take It Easy,” performed by the Primary Colors Trio, Baruch College Graduate Association, 12/4/2002.
- “Storm,” BMI Jazz Composer Workshop Big Band Public Reading, 11/26/2002.
- "A Summer Afternoon With You," BMI Jazz Composers Workshop Big Band Public Reading, Musicians Union, 4/30/2002.
- Composer, “Send My Regrets (for Manny),” BMI Jazz Composers Jazz Workshop Big Band Public Reading, Musicians Union, 2/26/2002.
- "A Smile for Everyone," BMI Jazz Composers Jazz Workshop Big Band Public Reading, Musicians Union, 10/30/2001.
- Performer/Composer, Composers' Recital ("Sweetness," "A Smile for Everyone," Hunter College, Lang Recital Hall, 2/28/2001.
- "Down the Road," BMI Jazz Composers Jazz Workshop Big Band Public Reading, 11/21/2000.
- “Gene Marlow and the Heritage Ensemble Interpret Melodies from the Hebraic Songbook," Hunter College, Brecher Hall, 5/18/1998.
- Premiere, " Swingin' Mr. Shultz," an original jazz composition performed by members of the Trevor Day Recorder Consort, 6/12/1997.
Classical Compositions:
- Selections from "Les Sentiments D'Amour," performed by Nada Loutfi, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, 12/17/2005.
- Selections from “Les Sentiments D’Amour” Nada Loutfi, Pen & Brush, New York City, 3/20/2005.
- “Aspects D’Amour” for piano and violin, Alaria Chamber Ensemble, CAMI Hall (New York City), 2/10/2005.
- “Three Chansons from Les Sentiments D’Amour” performed by pianist Nada Loutfi, Pen & Brush (New York City), 9/26/2004.
- "Une Jeune Fille,” theme and variations for viola and cello, Alaria Chamber Ensemble, New York Composers Circle reading, 6/2/2004.
- "48 Rows in One Minute," a three-voice serial fugue performed electronically at a concert sponsored by VoxNovus, Under St. Marks, 11/2/2003.
- "Aspects D’Amour," for violin and piano, CUNY Graduate Center performance (world premiere), 5/2/2002.
- Two string quartets: “La Brume” and “ Une Force de la Nature” performed by the Corigliano String Quartet, Hunter College, 5/17/2001.
- For piano: "Pour Une Bonne Personne Qui Vaut Le Coup," "Three Fugues"; for Flute: "Chanson Pour Une Poetesse"; for String Quartet: "Fleur de Neige"; for Woodwind Quintet: "Playtime"; for Horns: "The Caverns at Carlsbad--for four trombones," Hunter College, Lang Recital Hall, 3/13/2001.
- "The Caverns at Carlsbad (for four trombones)," Hunter College (The City University of New York), Graduate Student Composers Concert, 10/26/2000.
- Performer (piano)/composer, "Chanson Pour Une Poetesse," "La Femme Dans Une Lumiere D'Or," "Hello," and "Take It Easy," Hunter College (The City University of New York), Graduate Student Composers Concert, 4/6/2000.
- Performer/composer, Hunter College (The City University of New York) Graduate Student Composers Concert, 3/22/2000.
- Performer/composer, "Three Selections from Les Sentiments D'Amour," Hunter College (The City University of New York), Student Composers Concert, 11/3/1999.
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