‘Spirit’ new album by Peter Calandra in Peaceful Radio Show 1585
18 March 2024 Uncategorized
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Spirit, the 2024 release by Peter Calandra is an album of beautiful piano based compositions. The 13 tracks on the album contain 10 original pieces composed by Peter along with 3 arrangements of early 1970’s songs Calandra played as a teen in bands. The music ranges from sweet folk-like solo piano melodies to spacious, soulful piano accompanied by deeply ambient synthesizer washes and lyrical ballads. Quiet music for a loud world.
Track Listing
01) Spirit (Calandra) [05:02]
02) A Box Of Candles (Calandra) [04:02]
03) Layla (Eric Clapton, Jim Gordon) [05:06]
04) Joyful Light (Calandra) [05:27]
05) Fading Memories (Calandra) [05:27]
06) Stately and Kind (Calandra) [03:53]
07) The Weight (Robbie Robertson) [03:44]
08) Reflective Romance (Calandra) [03:56]
09) Thankful (Calandra) [03:34]
10) Uncle John’s Band (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) [03:13]
11) Night Sky (Calandra) [03:38]
12) Spring Hope (Calandra) [03:05]
13) Spirit (Reprise) (Calandra) [04:12]
Peter Calandra is an award winning, prolific composer and keyboard player whose solo albums are wonderfully
diverse,spanning world music, jazz, contemporary jazz, new age, pop, and neo-classical. Three of hisrecent albums of
original music — First Light (2015), The Road Home (2017) and Carpe Noctem (2018) were nominated for ZMR
Awards.
As a Film & TV composer, Calandra scored over 100 films and wrote over 2000 compositionsfor television. He has
composed music for every major television network including the FIFA World Cup Theme for FOX Sports, the
Special Olympics World Games and Invictus Games Theme for ESPN, as well as writing music for the Kennedy
Center Honors on CBS from 2015 thru 2020.
Calandra has been immersed in the New York City music scene for most of hislife. As a keyboard player he
performed in the Broadway productions of Miss Saigon, The Lion King, Les Miserables, The Phantom Of The Opera,
and Little Shop Of Horrors. He has also performed with the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, NY Pops Orchestra,
Dee Dee Bridgewater, Don Cherry, Aretha Franklin, Allen Ginsberg, Annie Golden, Donna McKechnie, Lillianne
Montevecchi, and he spent 16 years asthe keyboard player in the NYC-based Climax Band, the creative vehicle for
artist and musician Larry Rivers.
Currently, Calandra is on the faculty of the Aaron Copland School Of Music at Queens College, CUNY teaching
Audio/MIDI, Film Scoring and Music Composition. He is also a Yamaha Endorsed Artist
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