August 2, 2021
Jazz Ready: 15 minutes (More or Less) of Unexpected Pleasure.
Phil Fried. Composer.Educator. Collaborator. His Motto: "No sonic prejudice."
"He works on the sound of everything. He aims for an emotional effect in his music, not just the purity of formal processes."
August 2, 2021
Jazz Ready: 15 minutes (More or Less) of Unexpected Pleasure.
Phil Fried. Composer.Educator. Collaborator. His Motto: "No sonic prejudice."
"He works on the sound of everything. He aims for an emotional effect in his music, not just the purity of formal processes."
March 21, 2010
Sequenza21
Monday Night with Dr. Phil
He has written several texts and librettos, including that for his operatic adaptation of Hemingway’s short story, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”. Most recently Phil became the composer in residence and core member for Opera Bob, a new-music collaborative in Minnesota.
March 21, 2010
Sequenza21
Monday Night with Dr. Phil
He has written several texts and librettos, including that for his operatic adaptation of Hemingway’s short story, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”. Most recently Phil became the composer in residence and core member for Opera Bob, a new-music collaborative in Minnesota.
October 14, 2006
Star Tribune
Concert For Kids is Extremely Good
Fried's piece was especially challenging, with dense layering of sound alternating with lyrical passages and moments of cacophonous dissonance...Nonetheless, it is admirable that a new work is programmed, particularly one as interesting as this one.
October 14, 2006
Star Tribune
Concert For Kids is Extremely Good
Fried's piece was especially challenging, with dense layering of sound alternating with lyrical passages and moments of cacophonous dissonance...Nonetheless, it is admirable that a new work is programmed, particularly one as interesting as this one.
November 5, 1999
Star Tribune
Minnesota Orchestra Weathers the 'Elements' Well
His emotional tone is expressionist anxiety. He packs a great deal of music into just six minutes. Unlike many composers today, he isn't desperate to please, perhaps because he has a lot to say.
November 5, 1999
Star Tribune
Minnesota Orchestra Weathers the 'Elements' Well
His emotional tone is expressionist anxiety. He packs a great deal of music into just six minutes. Unlike many composers today, he isn't desperate to please, perhaps because he has a lot to say.
November 4, 1999
Pioneer Press
Orchestra Rewarding in Multifaceted Concert
The performance of the third movement of Philip Fried's symphony 'Elements for Orchestra' was a more modest occasion, but important. This final movement, a portrait of the composer's wife, had arresting colors, and handled a 12-tone serialist idiom with impressive flexibility...
November 4, 1999
Pioneer Press
Orchestra Rewarding in Multifaceted Concert
The performance of the third movement of Philip Fried's symphony 'Elements for Orchestra' was a more modest occasion, but important. This final movement, a portrait of the composer's wife, had arresting colors, and handled a 12-tone serialist idiom with impressive flexibility...
October 19, 1998
Inside Augsburg
Sea Flowers to premiere at Augsburg
The inspiration for Fried's Sea Flowers was Eddy Flowers, a family friend living with HIV. Fried writes, 'I wanted the piece to be about survival in difficult conditions, the fragility of life and hope. Finding H.D.'s 'Sea Garden' was fortuitous--a group of poems about delicate flowers surviving in the difficult terrain of the sea shore. These texts are a perfect match for the theme of the cycle and includes Eddy Flowers directly as a subject.'
October 19, 1998
Inside Augsburg
Sea Flowers to premiere at Augsburg
The inspiration for Fried's Sea Flowers was Eddy Flowers, a family friend living with HIV. Fried writes, 'I wanted the piece to be about survival in difficult conditions, the fragility of life and hope. Finding H.D.'s 'Sea Garden' was fortuitous--a group of poems about delicate flowers surviving in the difficult terrain of the sea shore. These texts are a perfect match for the theme of the cycle and includes Eddy Flowers directly as a subject.'
