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26: 2025
Numinous at 25
26. 2025
#numinous25
#numinousmusic25
This year, both personally and musically, had some amazing highs and profound lows. But if 2024 was about travels and the beginnings of future life changes, 2025, was those things manifesting, despite the challenges. And that overall makes it a wonderful year.
The year started off with Lara Downes CD release concert at Joe’s Pub in NYC. Her album This Land was released in August 2024 and included my piece “Never Has Been Yet,” which I wrote for Lara back in 2016. Because Lara was injured, our friend Simone Dinnerstein filled in playing the piano while Lara did the narration. In February I gave a public Zoom talk about the second opera in @1619opera cycle, Till Paths Be Wrought Through Wilds. The talk, sponsored by the Animas Museum in Durango, Colorado, was a chance to discuss how the area’s history was part of the inspiration for the creation of the opera.
In the spring after all of the process was done, we had purchased our property in Argentina, just north of Buenos Aires, all with plans on eventually making it into an international art’s residency called: El Club Delta de las Artes! @clubdeltadelasartes
In May I got to work with Alarm will Sound @alarmwillsound on the first reading of my piece We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident. While this was a chamber version, it was an opportunity to fine-tune the composition for the American Composers Orchestra @amerco reading in October.
As the summer approached, there were many feelings as my 34-year time teaching public school music was ending with my pending (early) retirement. So what was left was packing and trying to enjoy and celebrate the many changes in my family’s lives to come before our move to Argentina.
Once in the Southern Cone (which getting here was its own adventure), it was a lot of adjustments to live, but nonetheless I was able to finish the libretto for Till Paths Be Wrought Through Wilds and began the composing. I wasn’t gone from NYC long, however, because before Halloween I briefly returned for the ACO full orchestra reading of We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident, a precursor toward the premiere of the first two movements at Carnegie Hall in March https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2026/03/11/American-Composers-Orchestra-0730PM
Numinous started officially on October 5, 2000 and we have been on an amazing 25 year ride! I don’t know what the next future Numinous project in the US will be or when, but there WILL be something!
¡Aunque quizás algún día estará un Numinous Sud! ¡Uds veré en 2030 con #numinous30!
#josephcphillipsjr #numinous #numinousmusic @numinousmusic #mixedmusic #newmusic #newopera #opera #mixedmusic #1619opera #1619operacycle #tillpathsbewroughtthroughwilds #reconstruction #reconstructionopera #weholdthesetruthstobeselfevident #jubilando
#numinous25
#numinousmusic25
This year, both personally and musically, had some amazing highs and profound lows. But if 2024 was about travels and the beginnings of future life changes, 2025, was those things manifesting, despite the challenges. And that overall makes it a wonderful year.
The year started off with Lara Downes CD release concert at Joe’s Pub in NYC. Her album This Land was released in August 2024 and included my piece “Never Has Been Yet,” which I wrote for Lara back in 2016. Because Lara was injured, our friend Simone Dinnerstein filled in playing the piano while Lara did the narration. In February I gave a public Zoom talk about the second opera in @1619opera cycle, Till Paths Be Wrought Through Wilds. The talk, sponsored by the Animas Museum in Durango, Colorado, was a chance to discuss how the area’s history was part of the inspiration for the creation of the opera.
In the spring after all of the process was done, we had purchased our property in Argentina, just north of Buenos Aires, all with plans on eventually making it into an international art’s residency called: El Club Delta de las Artes! @clubdeltadelasartes
In May I got to work with Alarm will Sound @alarmwillsound on the first reading of my piece We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident. While this was a chamber version, it was an opportunity to fine-tune the composition for the American Composers Orchestra @amerco reading in October.
As the summer approached, there were many feelings as my 34-year time teaching public school music was ending with my pending (early) retirement. So what was left was packing and trying to enjoy and celebrate the many changes in my family’s lives to come before our move to Argentina.
Once in the Southern Cone (which getting here was its own adventure), it was a lot of adjustments to live, but nonetheless I was able to finish the libretto for Till Paths Be Wrought Through Wilds and began the composing. I wasn’t gone from NYC long, however, because before Halloween I briefly returned for the ACO full orchestra reading of We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident, a precursor toward the premiere of the first two movements at Carnegie Hall in March https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2026/03/11/American-Composers-Orchestra-0730PM
Numinous started officially on October 5, 2000 and we have been on an amazing 25 year ride! I don’t know what the next future Numinous project in the US will be or when, but there WILL be something!
¡Aunque quizás algún día estará un Numinous Sud! ¡Uds veré en 2030 con #numinous30!
#josephcphillipsjr #numinous #numinousmusic @numinousmusic #mixedmusic #newmusic #newopera #opera #mixedmusic #1619opera #1619operacycle #tillpathsbewroughtthroughwilds #reconstruction #reconstructionopera #weholdthesetruthstobeselfevident #jubilando
Thanks and credit to all the original photos on this website to: David Andrako, Concrete Temple Theatre, Marcy Begian, Mark Elzey, Ed Lefkowicz, Donald Martinez, Kimberly McCollum, Geoff Ogle, Joseph C. Phillips Jr., Daniel Wolf-courtesy of Roulette, Andrew Robertson, Viscena Photography, Jennifer Kang, Carolyn Wolf, Mark Elzey, Karen Wise, Numinosito. The Numinous Changing Same album design artwork by DM Stith. The Numinous The Grey Land album design and artwork by Brock Lefferts. Contact for photo credit and information on specific images.