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Music Theater

It’s pretty obvious what this bay in my metaphoric library will eventually contain. But there’s nothing substantive here yet. (Remember: . . . and that is poetry . . .) 

As a start, however, I’ve extracted from my CV a short list of compositions for music theater, broadly conceived to include works with movement, dance, lighting, etc.:

  • Untitled (1972; eight singers, two actors)
  • that it was built . . . (1967; ten percussionists, ten dancers)
  • ensemble (1974; untrained performers)
  • Wood/stone (1974; untrained performers)
  • InSignIam (1978; six dancers, six-channel fixed media)
  • The Legacy (1982–83; four singers, live electronics, actor, three actor-mimes)
  • Makers (1992; cello, flute, violin, percussion, clarinet)
  • Metamorphoses (2005; baritone, soprano, fixed media, projections)
  • Everlasting Voices (2012; clarinet, actor, fixed media)

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Solo Instrument

It’s pretty obvious what this bay in my metaphoric library will eventually contain. But there’s nothing substantive here yet. (Remember: . . . and that is poetry . . .) 

As a start, however, I’ve extracted from my CV a short list of compositions for solo instrument, although in some instances these might have been placed in the category “music theater”:

  • POEMPIECE I: whitegold blue (1967; flute)
  • POEMPIECE II: how I fooled the armies (1968; bass trombone)
  • Wallpaper Pieces (1979; piano)
  • Footnotes (1981–84; guitar)
  • Different Drummers (1987–88; snare drum)
  • March Peace (1988; snare drum)
  • For Violin (1990; violin)
  • KS/CH (2003; flute)
  • The Walk to the Tarn (2013; piano)
  • The Walk around a Round (2019; toy piano)
  • Cello e cielo (2019; cello)

Instrumental Ensemble

It’s pretty obvious what this bay in my metaphoric library will eventually contain. But there’s nothing substantive here yet. (Remember: . . . and that is poetry . . .) 

As a start, however, I’ve extracted from my CV a short list of compositions for instrumental ensemble—which includes everything from duets up to (very!) large ensembles:

  • Sextet (1967; flute, oboe, horn, piano, two percussionists)
  • Bryant’s Ridge Disco Phase No. 1 (1978; disco band of sixteen or more instruments)
  • 5 Strings / 3 Players (1987–88; two violins, viola)
  • Dancing on Your Grave (1990; chamber orchestra)
  • The Kitchen Sink and the Water in It (1991; flute, clarinet, trumpet, two trombones, percussion)
  • Common Ground (1995; large wind ensemble and steel band)
  • Lullaby (1998; four trumpets, three trombones, bell)
  • from . . . on . . . for . . . (2002; flute, cello, piano)
  • Small Talk (2002; four unlike instruments capable of crescendo)
  • Canticanon (2003; twelve instruments)
  • Would That Change (2004; large wind ensemble)
  • Disjointed (2011; piano, percussion)

Choir

It’s pretty obvious what this bay in my metaphoric library will eventually contain. But there’s nothing substantive here yet. (Remember: . . . and that is poetry . . .) 

As a start, however, I’ve extracted from my CV a short list of compositions for choir—that is, vocal ensemble (sometimes accompanied) with more than one voice on a part:

  • Doors (1983)
  • A Peal for Calm (1987)
  • in memoriam reducere studemus (1996)
  • Six Mediaeval Lyrics (2010)
  • Four Folk Songs (2011–2016)
  • For Orpheus (2016)

Chamber Voices

It’s pretty obvious what this bay in my metaphoric library will eventually contain. But there’s nothing here yet. (Remember: . . . and that is poetry . . .)

As a start, however, I’ve extracted from my CV a short list of compositions for chamber voices—that is, unaccompanied ensembles with one voice per part. Think of madrigals—which, coincidentally, is the title of the first item on the following list:

  • Madrigals (1977–78)
  • Crazy Jane (2015)
  • Oooo Will! (2016)
  • Tracce (2019)