This week’s selection is the defeat music I wrote for the video game Star Trek Conquest. For a visual, imagine a Federation starship in ruins… or perhaps an Academy freshman failing the Kobayashi Maru.
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Armada in Defeat | |
As the great Henry Mancini taught us, sometimes you just gotta write jazzy sneaking music.
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Sneaking the Keys | |
Accordion (of course) and piano help evoke an overseas wintery musical vignette.
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Winter in Paris | |
The album of Identity: Zhongshan Zuang, a concerto for orchestra and guzheng, will be released by Hanyi on March 24th, 2011. The album features the concerto itself, written by Michael Gordon Shapiro and Victor Cheng, as well as several solo guzheng pieces by virtuoso Su Chang.
The album will be available in CD format on CDBaby, as well as on iTunes and other major online music retailers.
A Feast of Snacks, an anthology of short musicals by Michael and playwright Mark Harvey Levine, will premiere in London on March 24, 2011. The production company, London-based A Stage Kindly, also produced several cabaret performances of Michael’s theater music in 2009 and 2010.
