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"Three River Moments"
© 2000 Kevin Callahan

"Three River Moments" was selected as the final exam performance piece at the Royal Conservatory of Music (Bruxelles) guitar dept. headed by Odair Assad. The middle movement - The River Bed - was recorded by Badi Assad on her Guitar Player Magazine - award winning "Rhythms" CD, Chesky Records.

Henry Lemoine Editions

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"Three River Moments"

“Suite Seattle”
© 2005 Kevin Callahan

"Suite Seattle" was commissioned by Odair Assad and Francoise-Emmanuelle-Denis of GHA Records for the newly formed “Alki Guitar Trio” in Belgium. The suite merges classical, jazz, rock, blues and minimalism with tributes to Deep Purple and Jimi Hendrix . It was recently performed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to much acclaim.

pics of Alki in recording session

"Suite Seattle"

“The Fourth Stream”
©2005 Kevin Callahan

For solo classical guitar commissioned by Michael Partington, the three-movement work is inspired in part by Gunther Schuller’s term Third Stream, coined in 1957 to reflect the fusion of jazz and classical music.

This piece brings rock into the mix, ands also draws from Seattle’s Jackson Street jazz scene of the early 20th century and the city’s late 20th century influence on popular music

"The Fourth Stream"

Classical Guitar Magazine
- December 2004

"Three River Moments" for solo guitar by Kevin Callahan Editions Henry Lemoine 27 461 HL. 16pp

Three River Moments gets underway with an exceedingly rhythmic and pulsating opener titled Undercurrents. This is a very exciting, vibrant movement chock-a-block with syncopation, various time signatures, percussion and multiple left-hand slurs driving the music ever forward to a breathless 'Bartok' conclusion.

This is followed by the dreamy, almost romantic, middle movement, The River Bed which provides a highly contrasting effect between the first and final movement the title of which is Riptide; another work where the constantly changing time signatures are the chief characteristics in this incessantly moving piece, which, at six pages in length needs quite a lot of stamina.

Three River Moments, in the right hands, could make a stunning repertoire piece but the 'right hands' would need to be very capable indeed; we are talking here of difficulty Grade 8+.

- Steve Marsh

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"Three River Moments"

“The first and third movements are rockin’, and the middle movement is incredibly beautiful. Truly inspirational writing.”

- Charles Nichols, composer
www.charlesnichols.com

"The Red Fantasy"
© 2008 Kevin Callahan

"The Red Fantasy" was written by request for Odair Assad and will be released on his forthcoming solo CD along with new music from Leo Brouwer, Sergio Assad, Egberto Gismonti.

The score is available from Doberman-Yppan Publications

or via GSP in San Francisco here

"The Red Fantasy"

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