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Lines for Winter (SATB with piano accompaniment)

By On November 2, 2001 · Leave a Comment

Text by Mark Strand
for SATB with piano (2001, rev. 2005) ca. 5’30”
Commissioned as part of the Dale Warland Singers’ New Choral Music Commissioning Program, with major funding provided by the Jerome Foundation and additional support from the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University.

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Pick it up and Run with it (Orchestra)

By On December 12, 2000 · Leave a Comment

Pick it up and Run with it (2001, rev. 2005) ca. 6’15”
Orchestra.
3333 4331 Timp, 2 Perc, Pf, Strings

Selected for a reading session by the Plymouth Music Series Orchestra in February 2001 as part of the American Composers Forum’s Orchestal Reading Project. Phillip Brunelle conducted. Alvin Singleton acted as composer-mentor.

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How Do I Love Thee? (High Voice, Clarinet or Violin & Piano)

By On September 18, 2000 · Leave a Comment

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, text.
High Voice, Clarinet or Violin & Piano. (2000) 4’30”

A co-commission and premiere by The Lark Ascending, Nancy Bogen, director, and the Lyric Arts Trio.

Listen to a performance by Marcelle Duarte (Soprano), Dennis Jospeh (Clarinet) & Lin Lee (Piano):
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who knows if the moon’s a balloon? (SSAA & Piano)

By On April 15, 1999 · Leave a Comment

SSAA with piano accompaniment (1999 rev. 2006) ca. 3’
e.e. cummings, Text.
Commissioned by the Piedmont Choirs, for use in the International Choral Olympics in Linz, Austria, July, 2000.

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So, We’ll Go No More A-Roving (High Voice & Piano, opt. Clarinet)

By On March 20, 1999 · 2 Comments

Lord Byron, text.
for High Voice & Piano, with or without Clarinet (1999), ca. 3’30″

Commissioned and premiered by The Lark Ascending, Nancy Bogen, director.

Listen to a performance by Elizabeth Farnum (Soprano) & Peter Vinograde (Piano):
Roving

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The Persistence of Past Chemistries (Percussion Quartet)

By On May 19, 1998 · Leave a Comment

Percussion Quartet (1998) ca. 9+’
Scored for Marimba, Xylophone, Cajon, and various standard mixed percussion (all wood).
Commissioned by Ethos Percussion Group under the auspices of the Jerome Foundation.
Premiered at Weill Recital Hall. Recorded by them in 1999 (see Discography).

Performed by Ethos Percussion Group

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From the Faraway Nearby (Two Guitars)

By On February 20, 1998 · Leave a Comment

Two Guitars, Six Movements, (1998) ca. 20’
Premiered by the Goldspiel-Provost Classical Guitar Duo, at Weill Recital Hall.

Recorded by them in 2001 (see Discography).

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The Far Field (High Voice, Clarinet & Piano)

By On April 15, 1997 · 1 Comment

Theodore Roethke, text.
High Voice, Clarinet & Piano (1997), ca. 22′
Premiered by Elizabeth Farnum, Dennis Joseph & Charles Tauber at NYU.

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Arguments & Agreements (Brass Quintet)

By On September 7, 1996 · Leave a Comment

Brass Quintet (Two Trumpets, French Horn, Trombone, Tuba) (1996, rev. 2006), Three Movements, ca. 10’
Premiered by The St. Anthony Brass Quintet at the University of Minnesota, 1996.

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Fall, Leaves, Fall (SATB divisi a cappella)

By On September 1, 1996 · Leave a Comment

SATB divisi, a cappella (1996) ca. 3’
Emily Brontë, Text.
Premiered by San Francisco Choral Artists, Magen Solomon, director.

Listen to a performance by the Freeport High School Select Chorale, Stephen Pagano, Director
Fall

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