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Nicholas W. Farmer

Looking for interested classical musicians

About Me

I'm currently studying composition at Rutgers University. I'm ALWAYS on the lookout for interested classical musicians ANYWHERE (particularly pianists)! Drop me a line!
To listen to more of my work, you can go to my personal website nwfarmer.com , or my purevolume account.
The full title of the first piece is "A Game of Cat and Mouse", and the second is "The Hidden Life of Mysterious Manakins." Note: Manakins, as opposed to mannequins, are birds from south and central America.
Scores are freely available for interested parties. Commissions are gladly accepted. You can download the music, but bear in mind that it is updated fairly frequently.
My current list of works, or as my dad calls it, the FARMER-WERKE-VERZEICHNIS:
The Idols (string quartet)
The Slave Ship (Piccolo/Flute and Piano)
The Red Tower of Halle (Piano)
Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale (Wind Quartet)
A Day in the Life of a Caveman (Piano)
A Game of Cat and Mouse (Piano)
The Hidden Life of Mysterious Manakins (Marimba)
The Rivers of Hades (Wind Quintet and Piano)
Dance Suite #1 (Cello)
The Pinwheel (Harpsichord)
Invisible Cities (Piano)
Fear of the Dark (Cello)
Song Cycle of the Sublime (Voice and Piano) [work in progress]
--I Feel an Untenable Urge... (text by Nicholas W. Farmer)
--The Bed by the Window (text by Robinson Jeffers)
--To My Brother George (text by John Keats)
--As Your Sword (text by Rumi)
--A Dream (text by E.A. Poe)
--An Ocean of Grass (text by Nicholas W. Farmer)
--O Solitude (text by John Keats)
Works for Trees (Various) [work in progress]
--Prelude for a Willow (piano)
--Fantasy for a Saguaro (harp)
--Passacaglia for a Redwood (woodwind quintet)
--Rhapsody on a Palo Borracho (viola)
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Member Since: 3/29/2005
Band Website: nwfarmer.com
Band Members: Nicholas Farmer, composer
Influences: Gregorian, and Eastern Orthodox chant.
Ars Nova.
J.S. Bach.
Russian Romanticism.
Impressionism, Expressionism, and Surrealism.
Video game music and film scores.
Pop tunes and folk melodies.
Sounds Like: Contemporary Classical, with the occasional touch of Debussy. And Bartok or Hindemith, as a lot of people tell me.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

After a long wait

I have finally, finally completed Invisible Cities.  At least, for now. I suspect I'll return to it later. But I've definitely come to a decent stopping point. It's a bit too long to have in one ...
Posted by Nicholas W. Farmer on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:58:00 PST

Out in the country

I'm going to be spending the next few days at my uncle's cabin near Yosemite (celebrating New Year's), and as there is, well, almost no technology up there, I won't be able to access my account. So, d...
Posted by Nicholas W. Farmer on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:21:00 PST

To listen to more of my work

You can go to my new purevolume account.To inaugurate the account, I have added two pieces hot off the press. One of them, a tone poem suite, Invisible Cities, is a work in progress, so it will be upd...
Posted by Nicholas W. Farmer on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:38:00 PST

Attention string players

If anyone is looking for some contemporary solo repertoire, for fun or performance, I just wrote a piece for unaccompanied cello, with the C string re-tuned down to B. I also have a version for re-tun...
Posted by Nicholas W. Farmer on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 03:47:00 PST

Just finished two new pieces

And as promised, I have posted them. The first is a tone poem for woodwind quintet and piano, called The Rivers of Hades. The rivers represented are as follows: first, the Styx, which surrounds Hades....
Posted by Nicholas W. Farmer on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 11:07:00 PST

Help me out in a non-musical way

Well, when I was in Boston about a month ago, I helped some friends of mine to make a commercial for Dorito's. Why, you ask? Because said commercial has been entered into a contest, whereby, if it win...
Posted by Nicholas W. Farmer on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:13:00 PST

Hello, my good friends

I just wanted to take a moment to stump for my very talented friend and pianist, Adrian Borcea. He's a fabulous pianist in many genres. So, why don't you go give his music a listen? It's excellent, I ...
Posted by Nicholas W. Farmer on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 01:05:00 PST

Some pretty exciting news

Ok, it's not as exciting as a new live recording, BUT, I did just receive my copy of Garritan's Personal Orchestra in the mail today (basically, nicer soundsets for my Sibelius), and I'm pretty please...
Posted by Nicholas W. Farmer on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:45:00 PST

In case you were curious

So, I had to write a short explanation of my pieces for the good people on Juilliard's admissions board. I figured some people might want to read something like this. So here it is.I am submitting tw...
Posted by Nicholas W. Farmer on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:05:00 PST

The Magic Christian

Is anyone here familiar with that book, by Terry Southern? Or the movie at least, with Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr? If not, you should check out one or the other.Just a quick thought...I know the ti...
Posted by Nicholas W. Farmer on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:09:00 PST