Compositions

OPERA

Départ Malgache
The Animated Room
Marx Bruddahs
Part One of One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays, a series of short operas (2001-2017) 12’
Libretto by Kenneth Koch
Cast: S;Bar
Piano solo

Two Scenes from The Composing of the Heliotrope Bouquet
(
1987; revised 2018) 15’
Libretto by Eric Overmyer
Cast: 2S, 2Mz, A, 2T, Bar
piano solo

Found Objects (1991) 60′
Libretto by Roger Trefousse
Cast: 2S, Mz, 2T, Bar
fl; cl (sax); hn; tpt; pno; perc; str (or string quintet)

Blue Margaritas (1986) 10’
Libretto by Eric Overmyer
Cast: S, T
cl; pno; perc or piano solo

The Monkey Opera (1982) 40’
Libretto by Jane DeLynn
Cast: S, Mz, T, Bar
1-1/Ehn-2/sax/bcl-1/cbsn; 2-1-0-0; perc (2); str (or string quintet)

MUSICAL THEATER

One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays (2001)

Incidental Music for the plays by Kenneth Koch

Raft of the Medusa (work-in-progress)
Book and Lyrics by Joe Pintauro

Snobs’ Cabaret (1989)
Lyrics by Jane DeLynn

Hoosick Falls (1974)
Book and Lyrics by Jane DeLynn

City Junket (1979)
Book and Lyrics by Kenward Elmslie

On the Verge (1985)
Incidental Music for the play by Eric Overmyer

A Husband’s Notes About Her (1980)
Book and Lyrics by Eve Merriam

Morning to Midnight (1974)
Incidental Music for the play by Georg Kaiser

Ten Best Martyrs of the Year (1973)
Incidental Music for the play by Seymour Simckes

CHORAL

Chet Ayim Mem (2018) 1′ SSAATTBB

Quails (Shinkichi Takahashi) (1979) 10′ SATB

ORCHESTRAL

Men Must Walk Before They Dance (1996) 6’
3-3-2-2; 4-2-2-1; perc; hp; cel; str

Square of Sunlight (1978) 9’
for string orchestra

Column (1979) 9’
for English horn and string orchestra

one of the ways (1974) 7’
1-1-1-1; 2-1-1; str (or string quintet)

VOICE WITH ORCHESTRAL ACCOMPANIMENT

A Soliloquy from Hamlet (Aria from The Monkey Opera) (1982) 5’
(Shakespeare) for tenor and chamber orchestra
1-1/Ehn-2/sax/bcl-1/cbsn; 2-1-0-0; perc (2); str (or string quintet)

anyone lived in a pretty how town (1979) 3’
(E.E. Cummings) for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
2-2-2-2; 4-2-2-1; perc.; str

VOICE WITH INSTRUMENTAL ACCOMPANIMENT

A Soliloquy from Hamlet (Shakespeare) (2020) 9′
for soprano, baritone saxophone, trumpet, electric guitar and percussion

Two Songs (Dennis Britten) (1981) 8’
for high voice, flute, horn, guitar and harpsichord

Villanelle (Ezra Pound) (1978) 9’
for soprano, baritone, saxophone, guitar and piano

Fantasie (Gérard de Nerval) (1974) 3’
for soprano and oboe or baritone and bassoon

Two Greek Songs (Sappho) (1972) 5’
for high or low voice and guitar (or accordion)

VOICE AND PIANO

The Hotel Brown Poems (John Ash) (2001) 14’
 for soprano

To You (Jane DeLynn) (1989) 2’
for soprano

Vocalise (1986) 3’
for soprano

A Soliloquy from Hamlet (Aria from The Monkey Opera) (1982) 5’
for tenor

Six Songs (D.H. Lawrence) (1976) 12’
for soprano

Three French Songs (Gérard de Nerval; Ch. Baudelaire) (1976) 8’
for high or low voice

Two American Songs (E.E. Cummings; Dennis Corbett) (1972) 6’
for high or low voice

CHAMBER MUSIC

Balanced Boulders Quintet (2022) 7’
for saxophone, vibraphone, piano, cello and contrabass

Deconstruction (2022) 6’
for guitar and contrabass

What Falls From Heaven Floats Like a Feather (2022) 5’
for oboe

Jackson Pollock Paints the End of Time (2021) 20’
for flute (alto flute, piccolo), English horn and bassoon

Serpent Descending  (Angel of Light) (2021)  7’
for English horn

Graceful Exits  (2021) 8’
for flute or alto saxophone or guitar

Light Seeking Light (2020) 12’
for violin, tenor saxophone, piano, percussion, electric guitar and electric bass

 Waterworld (20198’
for trombone, piano and tape

Synesthesia/Fusion: 3 Painters Portrayed (201915′
for flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello

Song of the Wolf (2009; rev. 2018) 12’
for violin and piano

Music for Grete (2006) 10’
for string quartet

Balanced Boulders (2000) 30’
for narrator, flute, percussion and tuba
Words by Spencer Holst; can be performed without narration

Fantasy on the Name Ben Weber (1999) 5’
for flute, celesta and cello

The Geography of Yearning (1992) 8’
for brass quintet

Aubade and Tango (1991) 10′
for accordion solo

Jackson Pollock Suite (1984) 8’
fl; ob; cl; sax; pno; perc; vc; cb or for piano solo

Dance for Cello and Tape (1984) 15’
for cello and electronic tape

Tiger’s-eye is min’d from the sea (1978)  11’
for cello and piano

Quails (1978) 10’
for oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon

Five Moments for Five Instruments (1974) 10’
fl; vn; tpt; hn; pno

ORGAN

Berliner Licht (2020) 15′

Three Movements from Balanced Boulders (2020) 10′

PIANO

Berliner Licht (2020) 14′

UnCaged (2019) 11′

Synesthesia/Fusion: 3 Painters Portrayed (2018) 12′

1 Mark Kostabi at Piazza Navona

2 Darragh Park in His Garden (also available in arrangement for electric guitar and piano)

3 Don Bachardy Paints a Portrait

Men Must Walk Before They Dance: Three Musical Portraits  (2000-2018) 10′

  1. Lucien Goldschmidt
  2. Nicolas Valinsky
  3. Daniel Surak

Music for Grete (2003) 10′

Three Piano Rags (1987) 12′

After That (1984) 11’

Jackson Pollock Suite (1984) 8′

All Before Morning (1980) 6’

DANCE

Inklings (2018) 20’
Choreography by Nancy Zendora
Piano solo

Games (1987) 8′
Choreography by Lizabeth Skalski
fl; ob; cl; sax; pno; perc; vc; cb

Yellow Springs Dance (1983) 15’
Choreography by Nancy Zendora
vc; tape

FILM AND TELEVISION

Entre Les Images (Directed by V.A. Rowlands; Premiere at Artifact Small Film Festival, 2020)

Ascending Double Helix (Directed by V.A. Rowlands; Score commissioned by Access Contemporary Music for Chicago Music and Film Festival (2019)

Ladykiller (HBO) (1992)

Gangland (Alive Films) (1990)

Elliot Fauman, Ph.D. (United Artists) (1987)

The Women Surgeon’s Project (PBS) (1994)

Jackson Pollock: Portrait (PBS) (1989)

The Incredible San Francisco Artists’ Soap Box Derby (PBS) (1980)

The Big Apple Circus (Industrial; MetLife) (1990)

Buddy and Brownie (Allan J. Adler Productions) (1989)

As the World Turns (CBS) (1993-2001)

The Guiding Light (CBS) (1996-2001)