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Quietude Jazz Rondo for Orchestra

  • Albert Syeles
    Author
  • Albert Syeles
    Name of Band or Artist
  • Project Type:
    Film Score, Other
  • Length:
    5 minutes 36 seconds
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Student Project:
    No
  • World Music Festival
    Brazil
    January 11, 2024
    WINNER - Jazz Music
  • Tokyo Interational Short Film Festival
    Tokyo
    October 3, 2022
    HONORABLE MENTION - Best Film Score
Artist Biography

"Quietude Jazz Rondo for Orchestra"
Won the award for Jazz Music at the 2023 World Music Festival,
and achieved HONORABLE MENTION BEST FILM SCORE at the 2022 Tokyo International Short Film Festival.

Albert has been Nominated "Best Music Composer" in 2023 at the Cannes Shorts Festival and WON that honor at Toronto's 2022 Fusion Awards - International Art Festival of Future.

His "Christabel" Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra has won eleven top Awards in 2022 and 2023 at competitive film festivals in London (2), Toronto (2), Las Vegas, Munich, Rome, Istanbul, and India (3).
It also achieved HONORABLE MENTION in New York, Seoul, Zagreb, at a second Rome event,
NOMINEE in Los Angeles, and FINALIST in Samobor, Croatia,
as well as OFFICIAL SELECTION in Warsaw, Tokyo, Madrid, Montreal, and at iHorror in Italy.

President and co-founder of Romanza - St. Augustine, Inc., and EpiCentre Alliance, both 501(C)(3) nonprofits.

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Artist Statement

QUIETUDE

Film theme
A portrait of chaos in our world… passion, hate, traffic, war, disease, vaccines, flooding, wildfires, hunger, greed; opulence, technology, innovation, privacy; ambition, self-righteousness; disrespect; news, perspectives, opinions, biases, politics, religion
…and the need for calm.

Music
A jazz rondo for orchestra.

QUIETUDE

I need a little quietude
Just a brief interlude.
Alas a multitude of moods
relentlessly intrude.
The closest I get is when I sit and brood
With exactitude
Especially in turpitude.
You'd conclude a similitude
To a dude who’d exude lassitude.

I need a new attitude.
It might involve a subdued-
But-consuming Liszt etude
And it might take a change in latitude
Or altitude
Not necessarily in the nude
Though I'm no prude
Or a little seafood
(Only the kind that can be chewed
And please, not barbequed
Nor fondued).

Grant me the fortitude.
I would truly exude gratitude
For just a little quietude.