Martin Max Schreiner

Thanks for listening Esther. I have visited your Website and listened to your beautiful piano piece "The Swan Brings Winter on its Wings" and to the recording of your euphonium piece "Journey." I enjoyed the very lyrical music part you composed for this instrument and Charley's performance.

YouTube video by Martin Max Schreiner Songs of Youth - A Cycle of Dreams (for tenor voice, cello & piano)

I have a new work just released. Score and parts are distributed through Universal Edition. The preface of the score contains a hymn sheet of Broadhurst's poems with his commentary. The video score here has audio produced from NotePerformer4 software.

youtu.be/39-aa7VhsH0

Songs of Youth - A Cycle of Dreams | P0335714 Setting of 12 early poems of British poet and composer Julian Broadhurst

American Composer Martin Max Schreiner has just published The Songs of Youth - a Cycle of Dreams
A Songcycle on 12 early poem sof mine
- I am published in UE
I made Vienna - Eventually.

www.universaledition.com/en/Songs-of-...

I knew Stephen Jaffe from back in our student days. He's a wonderful composer and musician.

Enjoying your mazurkas! "Like a tender bulldozer" for no. 1 does set a great mental image for listening. 'Anti-avante-garde' for our time, is this now a general approach for you--or just these mazarkas? I ask because my own work these days leans toward a traditional sense of harmonic language.

Thanks. I look forward to having a listen!

I have found Chopin inspiring too. I have a nocturne that hints at Chopin and a ballade for koto that is quite different. Are your mazurkas available to hear anywhere?

YouTube video by Martin Max Schreiner Three for Seven (a wind septet)

I composed this wind septet in 1975 and revised it in 1988. The 1988 version was premiered at the 1990 Society of Composers, Inc. national conference held at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where it was performed by members of the Las Vegas Symphony.

youtu.be/YDznRppliwM

YouTube video by Martin Max Schreiner Bamboo and Silk Tango (for shakuhachi & koto)

A recording of the premiere performance of my Bamboo and Silk Tango. It was presented on a concert in 2008 as part of the Afternoon of Shakuhachi and Koto Music series in Boston by two exceptional masters of these instruments: youtu.be/sPpccwx44gQ

The Pervasive Vulnerability of Life in America (updated 20 April 2025) Approaching tipping points in a system that fails the citizenry

The Pervasive Vulnerability of Life in America (updated 20 April 2025)
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The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL.
#HandsOff

YouTube video by Sorina Aust-Ioan - Piano Sorina in Ecuador: L. v. Beethoven, Klavierkonzert Nr. 4 G-Dur op. 58 - Orquesta Sinfónica de Cuenca

A beautiful performance of Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto by Austrian-Rumanian pianist Sorina Aust-Ioan: youtu.be/O9Q8_lkfupQ?...

YouTube video by Krassimir Taskov Krassimir Taskov- Promised Land (1997) for Vc.and Pno, perf. by Alek and Roumen Tsanov

An engaging composition by Krassimir Taskov: youtu.be/28CJ3ERkuso?...

Apple Maps has also caved to king T's executive order. Very disturbing!

YouTube video by Martin Max Schreiner Never Losing Heart: a Samba of Hope

A samba about not losing hope composed for classical guitarist Danton Oestreich and shakuhachi player Marco Lienhard: youtu.be/SpZb2W7DAHc

A musician's perspective on language learning Being a musician requires attentiveness and other skills that transpose well to language learning

A musician's perspective on language learning
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Truly frightening! Will 'they' be scrubbing our digital archives next?

Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

YouTube video by 木村麻耶 Chaconne J.S.Bach transcribed by Karl Scheit,supplemented by Maya Kimura koto

An awesome performance of Bach on the koto here. This performance made my day! -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-ts...

Everything Passes Coming of age in the '60s, I absorbed in my core a belief that peace was possible. In that small instant of time, it did seem to an optimistic and naïve teenager, that the millions of voices protestin

A wonderful work by Stanley Grill--beautifully performed and recorded here: soundcloud.com/stanley-gril...

Thanks for sharing this beautifully dramatic and compelling performance!

Is there a road home? Answering the question of whether returning home to the US after 15 years is feasible: Reflections on emigration, shared values, and the trajectory of the American nation-state

After 15 years in Europe, I'm sharing some reflections on emigration, shared values, and the trajectory of the American nation-state
leavingamerica.substack.com/p/is-there-a...

Wonderful performance!

Cristobal de Morales, De Profundis, Robert Hollingworth - Missa Mille regretz: Vb. Osanna II (1535-7 Alternative Version) Listen to Missa Mille regretz: Vb. Osanna II (1535-7 Alternative Version) by Cristobal de Morales, De Profundis, Robert Hollingworth.

CD1 of the Morales Project includes the rarely-heard original version of Missa Mille regretz. One critic said that listening to the first version of the Osanna was "the closest you'll get to hearing the beating of angels' wings."
Let's party like it's 1535!
https://buff.ly/4go7DeE

and to you! All the best for 2025!

I played the Carter String Quartet No. 1 for my son when he was in high school (in 2009), and he found it interesting and he copied it to his iPod. What did your children think of Carter's quartets?

YouTube video by Colorado MahlerFest Symphony No 10 - Christopher Gunning - World Premiere - Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra, Kenneth Woods

We've just been putting the finishing touches on the next vol in Signum Records' cycle of symphonies by Christopher Gunning (Sym 8 & 9). His music has so much heart. As I get on in life, that seems to matter most of all.

Here's his 10th from @mahlerfest.bsky.social

youtu.be/m6jSWG6dNk4

YouTube video by SiccasGuitars Heike Matthiesen plays Soledad by Maria Linnemann on a 2014 Michael Batell

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Dave Brubeck: 40 days & 40 nights.
Stravinsky: Petrushka.
Elliott Carter: String Quartet No1.
Berio: Sinfonia.
Webern: String Quartet Op 28.