Ostinato Solo Piano Compositions of Chad Twedt
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Chad Twedt was awarded the 2005 Nevada Arts Council Fellowship Grant for the composing on this CD, a $5,000 grant awarded on the merit of uniqueness and quality of artistic creation. What is the ostinato? Click here to read about the ostinato and how it has influenced Twedt's music. You can also read here what Twedt wrote in the liner notes of the Ostinato CD about his own use of the ostinato. You can hear full-length mp3s of certain tracks below, along with sample text from the liner notes for those tracks. If you have any trouble playing audio files, you can instead right-click on download links and choose "Save As".

Ostinato Suite No. 1		16'55
1	I. Outburst	3'52
2	II. Mother Nature's Clock	3'36
3	III. Spellbound	5'11
4	IV. Victory Bells	4'16

9/11 Portrait utilizes the ostinato technique to varying degrees, its primary focus is not on the ostinato itself. 9/11 Portrait is my most personal work, taking the listener through the feelings I experienced through the attack and its aftermath. Even two years later [as these notes were written], the attacks still seem more like an awful nightmare than a reality, or perhaps like a scene out of this past decade\'s movies of mass destruction such as Independence Day, Deep Impact, or The Sum of All Fears. 9/11 Portrait serves to crystallize the overwhelming emotions that I and so many others experienced, to help ensure that humanity never forgets the horror of the event.', CAPTION, '9/11 Portrait');" onmouseout="return nd();">9/11 Portrait		13'12
5	I. Fall of the Twin Giants	4'15
6	II. Love's Labor Lost	3'50
7	III. Prayer	5'07

8	Life of a Rain Cloud	5'10

Ostinato Suite No. 2		17'48
9	I. Merciful Cry	5'19
10	II. Chinese Tea Dance	3'41
11	III. Nocturne	4'00
12	IV. Grand Ostinato	4'48
Chad Twedt, piano		Total Time: 53'05