B. Allen Schulz

Random Access MusicThis is the festival I founded in 2013. It’s been running every year since its founding, except for 2020 when we had to cancel due to the COVID19 pandemic which hit New York City first and, probably, the hardest. It’s a 3 da event with 5 concerts of only music composed in the…

Recently, as as I was going through some old files in preparation to move later this year (more on that soon in another post), I came across a hand-written score. This score was the first work I ever composed, age 18. It’s for clarinet and piano. It’s clearly a beginner’s piece, but shows promise! It’s…

This is a video of guitarist Jay Source performing my 6 Bagatelles for Solo Guitar. It takes its title from composer Bela Bartok, who wrote 20 or so short works for solo piann, which he called “Bagatelles.” A bagatelle is a smal loaf of bread in French, a small bagette. Numerous composers have used the…

There’s a feature on Sibelius that I’ve just recently begun to use: Exort a movie of your score. Sibelius creates a a moving score of a work with sounds also created by Sibelius. Some of the sounds are quite good. I am presently creating the videos via Sibelius and then uploading them to YouTube, since…

New release track on Max Lifchitz’s performance of my work for solo piano, “Jade Dance”. This very difficult piece was written when I was a very young composer, not far removed from graduate program in composition at Brrooklyn College. It’s sort of a musical depiction of a player piano coming to life but spinning out…

Please join me and the players of Random Access Music to hear my new work Syzygy for Bass Clarinet and electronic loopers. Sept. 28 at 7pm at Graham Studio TheaterSept. 29 at 7pm at Secret Theatre This work grows out of my love for astronomy. When NASA began publishing the amazing photos of the most…

Given the current political discourse about women’s roles in society and politics, and how one candidate has disparraged unmarried women as “crazy cat ladies” my wife, Rebecca Bratspies, encouraged me to share the audio of a work I wrote a decade and a half ago: This work was awarded as one of the best Solo…

In 2012, I had an idea about how to bring more of the arts, particularly music–particularly NEW music to my home borough of Quees, which despite its large population and the quite large number of musicians who live here always seemed to play 2nd (and, maybe, 3rd fiddle) to the boroughs of Manhatan and Brooklyn.…

April 29, 2024 is the 10 year anniversary of my emergence from a coma that started on March 31, 2014. I emerged blind, unable to stand, or, indeed. not really move, still with a feeding tube in my belly, and a breathing tube in my throat. When the doctors removed the trachea, they asked me…

Here’s a link to a video recording of a rehearsal last week of my new trio–to be premeired next Saturday at the Secret Theatre in Queens: For Clarinet, Violin, and Violincello, it’s pretty typical of my style: fast, fun, and rhythmic. https://www.facebook.com/570663131/videos/422122313624904/https://www.facebook.com/570663131/videos/422122313624904/