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With each new line, bundle of notes or gesture, a new structure emerges to create new and still-evolving contexts for the structure that preceded it. Throughout all of his work, a sense of mystery and restlessness prevails.&quot;</itunes:summary>    <itunes:keywords>classical,contemporary</itunes:keywords>    <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>    <itunes:owner>      <itunes:name>Warren Richard Furman</itunes:name>      <itunes:email>wfurman@HiTechARTS.com</itunes:email>    </itunes:owner>    <itunes:block>no</itunes:block>    <itunes:category text="Music"/>    <itunes:image href="http://hitecharts.com/PODS/Art/x2_4.png"/>    <image>      <url>http://hitechArts.com/PODS/Art/spinners_2.png</url>      <title>LOOSE ENDS</title>      <link>http://hitecharts.com/music.html</link>      <width>112</width>      <height>112</height>      <description>Almost Live Art</description>    </image>    <item>      <title>A Little Music for the Chamber Made</title>      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Aug 2006 08:00:00 -0500</pubDate>      <category>Music</category>      <enclosure url="http://hitecharts.com/PODS/LIVE/ALMFTCM.mp3" length="11084847" type="audio/mpg"/>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://hitecharts.com/PODS/LIVE/ALMFTCM.mp3</guid>      <itunes:author>Warren Richard Furman</itunes:author>      <itunes:subtitle>Music for a small chamber orchestra, yet to be performed.</itunes:subtitle>      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>      <itunes:duration>11:24</itunes:duration>    </item>    <item>      <title>Fa-la-la La</title>      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Aug 2006 07:00:00 -0500</pubDate>      <category>Music</category>      <enclosure url="http://hitecharts.com/PODS/LIVE/Fa-la-la_La.mp3" length="3227404" type="audio/mpg"/>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://hitecharts.com/PODS/LIVE/Fa-la-la_La.mp3</guid>      <itunes:author>Warren Richard Furman</itunes:author>      <itunes:subtitle>...la-la La</itunes:subtitle>      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>      <itunes:duration>03:18</itunes:duration>    </item>    <item>      <title>fall-ing...</title>      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Aug 2006 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>      <category>Music</category>      <enclosure url="http://hitecharts.com/PODS/LIVE/fall-ing.mp3" length="5925427" type="audio/mpg"/>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://hitecharts.com/PODS/LIVE/fall-ing.mp3</guid>      <itunes:author>Warren Richard Furman</itunes:author>      <itunes:subtitle>Comically serious.</itunes:subtitle>      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>      <itunes:duration>06:06</itunes:duration>    </item>    <item>      <title>The Miller's Daughter</title>      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Aug 2006 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>      <category>Music</category>      <enclosure url="http://hitecharts.com/PODS/LIVE/Miller'sDaughter.mp3" length="2476096" type="audio/mpg"/>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://hitecharts.com/PODS/LIVE/Miller'sDaughter.mp3</guid>      <itunes:author>Warren Richard Furman</itunes:author>      <itunes:subtitle>An early SATB choral piece set to Tennyson's poem.</itunes:subtitle>      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>      <itunes:duration>01:42</itunes:duration>    </item>    <item>      <title>Nocturne</title>      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Aug 2006 04:00:00 -0500</pubDate>      <category>Music</category>      <enclosure url="http://hitecharts.com/PODS/LIVE/Nocturne.mp3" length="9996877" type="audio/mpg"/>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://hitecharts.com/PODS/LIVE/Nocturne.mp3</guid>      <itunes:author>Warren Richard Furman</itunes:author>      <itunes:subtitle>A student exercise composed in the sixties, included here for its electronic realization using Sibelius, Cubase SX and Synthogy's "Ivory" a Virtual Analog Synth (VST).</itunes:subtitle>      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>      <itunes:duration>02:14</itunes:duration>    </item>    <item>      <title>TrioCBV-2006</title>      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Aug 2006 03:00:00 -0500</pubDate>      <category>Music</category>      <enclosure url="http://hitecharts.com/PODS/LIVE/TrioCBV-2006.mp3" length="9996877" type="audio/mpg"/>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://hitecharts.com/PODS/LIVE/TrioCBV-2006.mp3</guid>      <itunes:author>Warren Richard Furman</itunes:author>      <itunes:subtitle>Still struggling to get a satisfaactory performance or electronic realization of this work.</itunes:subtitle>      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>      <itunes:duration>10:17</itunes:duration>    </item>    <item>      <title>whichofawind</title>      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Aug 2006 02:00:00 -0500</pubDate>      <category>Music</category>      <enclosure url="http://hitecharts.com/PODS/LIVE/whichofawind.mp3" length="5534672" type="audio/mpg"/>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://hitecharts.com/PODS/LIVE/whichofawind.mp3</guid>      <itunes:author>Warren Richard Furman</itunes:author>      <itunes:subtitle>Set to E.E.Cummings' poem. See http://hiteccharts.com/music.html for the score and text.</itunes:subtitle>      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>      <itunes:duration>05:42</itunes:duration>    </item>    <item>      <title>WhoseWoods</title>      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Aug 2006 01:00:00 -0500</pubDate>      <category>Music</category>      <enclosure url="http://hitecharts.com/PODS/LIVE/WhoseWoods.mp3" length="2185247" type="audio/mpg"/>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://hitecharts.com/PODS/LIVE/WhoseWoods.mp3</guid>      <itunes:author>Warren Richard Furman</itunes:author>      <itunes:subtitle>Set to the Frost poem. The Frost family refuses any further permissions, so this lovely work and its choral version are filed away for now.</itunes:subtitle>      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>      <itunes:duration>02:13</itunes:duration>    </item>  </channel></rss>