Podcast about "Ocean Park No. 24":
http://artgallery.yale.edu/pages/whatisart/what_podcast_start.html

"Blood Wedding": A Type-A Success
Yuriy Bash wrote a review for the Stuyvesant Spectator on December 20, 2006, of the production of Lorca's Blood Wedding that I was involved with, including a review of the music:

 "Senior Alex Weiser composed original music for the production...his compositions made the show more engrossing and unsettling."

Modern Mozarts Click Here for the Full Article
Danielle Oberdier wrote an article about modern composers at Stuyvesant high school on December 20, 2006. The article focused on two composers, a friend of mine, John Taylor, and myself. Here is an excerpt from the article:

   "Weiser, a student of Paul Alan Levi who has been composing since his freshman year, has had three pieces read by the Stuyvesant Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra read his string quartet and overture for string orchestra last year and his piece for strings, percussion and piano this fall. Weiser also composed the music for the Winter Drama 2006, "Blood Wedding," which premiered December 15.

   Weiser believes that contemporary classical music has a lot to offer Stuyvesant students. "Art expresses the human condition, and contemporary classical music expresses the contemporary human condition. [We] students at Stuyvesant are at a difficult crossroads in our lives where we are questioning the world around us and trying to understand our purpose here, and this is exactly what art is for. Art allows us to free ourselves from words and try to ask and answer the truly difficult questions of life the best we can," said Weiser.

   Weiser said, "The symphony orchestra reading my pieces has definitely been very helpful. Composing is much more meaningful when it is realized, and taking a piece through the whole process of writing it, copying it out, rehearsing it and finally conducting it in a concert makes the composition so much more real than it would be if I just wrote it, talked about it with my teacher and then left it on my shelf to collect dust." In the future, Weiser plans to write for some of the other Stuyvesant ensembles."