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Pei-Wen Liao, William Goldstein

Brushstrokes

New Gold Music LTD
Release Date: April 15, 2022

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Les Jeunes Ballerines de Dégas
Movement for Violin & Piano - Pei-Wen Liao, William Goldstein Created in Real Time
1 Qian Xuan’s Watching Geese 5:09  
2 Lautrec 6:01  
3 Les Jeunes Ballerines de Dégas 6:51  
4 Monet & Camille - A Love Story 9:26  
5 Chagall's Village 4:58  
6 In the Nursery with Mary Cassatt 6:35  
7 Kandinsky Kandy 5:29  
8 Pollock 1948 5:10  
9 Gestation - Creative Metamorphosis 17:37  
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As a composer who has scored over 50 film and television projects, who loves opera and musical theater as well as the ballet, the association of visuals and music is as natural as breathing air. Two characteristics of almost all my music, regardless of genres, is the emotional connectivity felt by the listener, and the conjuring up of images in the listener's mind.

Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, was a collection of pieces inspired by works of art in the gallery. This collection of musical compositions was created in reverse. Mussorgsky was inspired by the Pictures at an Exhibition he attended. His movements were inspired by what he saw. Having recorded a very diverse group of pieces with my colleague Pei-Wen Liao, I was looking for a concept that would unite all the pieces in the album. Many of the tracks were musically inspired by the French Impressionists, Debussy and Ravel, as well as Michel Legrand. I immediately started thinking of paintings.

I scoured the website for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as other collections, to come up with a number of paintings that matched the feeling I had for the works we created. Perhaps the most challenging was to match the visual for the Chinese influenced first track on the album. However as soon a s I found Qian Xuan’s "Watching Geese", a Chinese Scroll Painting, I felt that image was the perfect cover for the album, as well as the title for the opening track.

Brushstrokes: The Intersection of Art and Music presents a collection of musical compositions, created in real time by two composer performers creating simultaneously. In other words, a five-minute piece is created in five minutes. 

  • Pei Wen Liao and William Goldstein discuss 'Brushstrokes: The Intersection of Art and Music' with Harmonious World
    Posted At: September 15, 2022 12:00 AM
    Brushstrokes: The Intersection of Art and Music presents a collection of musical compositions, created in real time by two composer performers creating simultaneously. In other words, a five-minute piece is created in five minutes. The album was recorded over a three day period in Los Angeles on August 25th, 26th and 27th, 2021. Then the 20 some hours of “recorded in real time material,” was subject ed...
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  • Pei-Wen Liao and William Goldstein discuss 'Brushstrokes' with North Cotswold Radio
    Posted At: July 7, 2022 12:00 AM
    As a composer who has scored over 50 film and television projects, who loves opera and musical theater as well as the ballet, the association of visuals and music is as natural as breathing air. Two characteristics of almost all my music, regardless of genres, is the emotional connectivity felt by the listener, and the conjuring up of images in the listener's mind.Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, was...
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  • 'Kandinsky Kandy' from 'Brushstrokes, the Intersection of art and music' makes 'apple music - New in Classical' playlist
    Posted At: April 18, 2022 12:00 AM
    Brushstrokes: The Intersection of Art and Music presents a collection of musical compositions, created in real time by two composer performers creating simultaneously. In other words, a five-minute piece is created in five minutes. The album was recorded over a three day period in Los Angeles on August 25th, 26th and 27th, 2021. Then the 20 some hours of “recorded in real time material,” was subject ed...
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  • Pei-Wen Liao, William Goldstein - Brushstrokes is a terrific disc, full of warmth and joy in the act of creation itself / Fanfare
    Posted At: January 19, 2022 12:00 AM
    Fanfare's Colin Clarke writes…..William Goldstein has been involved in many, many film and television projects. In this field, the idea of expressive music that intends to conjure up images in the listener’s mind (or conversely reflect or amplify or comment on what the viewer sees) is vital and is, as Goldstein himself says, as natural as breathing to him. It is not just the ability to capture moods either;...
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  • William Goldstein weaves musical magic from just three notes / WBUR: Here and Now
    Posted At: September 27, 2021 12:00 AM
    Composer William Goldstein has been a recording artist for Motown and CBS Masterworks. His own label, distributed worldwide by The Orchard has over 60 albums currently available generating over 3,000,000 streams monthly. He has scored over 50 Movie and Television projects, including Fame & The Miracle Worker. He has written on the arts for The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. He has been a pion...
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  • Pei-Wen Liao and William Goldstein compose for violin and piano with no rehearsal, no preparation, no discussion
    Posted At: August 14, 2019 12:00 AM
    This is a very rare event in the classical music world. Violinist Pei-Wen Liao, a Juilliard graduate and currently at Yale University, and composer pianist William Goldstein create a movement for violin and piano in real time, in concert before a live audience. No Rehearsal, No Preparation, No Discussion. This fundraising concert for the Lakewood Historical Society took place at the historic Strand Theater ...
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