Symphonie Pastorale (2000) 17'
3333/4331/timp, 4 perc, pno, strings
Acceted for the American Composers Orchestra Whitaker Reading
Session, April 5, 2003
"Out of crooked timber..." (2000) 9'
Accordion Orchestra with Soloist
**Commissioned by the UMKC Accordion Orchestra, Joan Sommers,
Director**
Portrait: North and South Maroon (1998) 10'
**Commissioned by Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Robert Carnochan, Conductor
Shapes of Wind (1997) 15'
*DMA Dissertation
Citlaltepetl (1992) 18'
For whom... (2005) 9'
flute, clarinet (doubling bass), violin, cello, piano, percussion and
tape
**commissioned for 8th Blackbird by the 3rd Practice Festival of
Electroacoustic Music**
Pods (2003) Version 1: 25’; V. 2 and 3:
13'
indeterminate improvisation ensemble and computer generated sounds
Commissioned by the NYU New Music Ensemble.
Premier: Lowe Theater, New York, April 28, 2003.
Scrum (2002) 9’
for very mixed quintet
(bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, accordion, organ and bagpipes)
Commissioned by newEar, Kansas City
Banging on Cans (2002) 8’30"
for percussion ensemble
Premier: UMKC Percussion Ensemble, February 25, 2002
Wood, Wind, Water, Earth (2001) 12’
dizi, erhu, yangqin, and tape
Commissioned by Meet the Composer for Music From China.
Premier: Merkin Hall, New York, November 17, 2001.
Four Mile Creek (1997) 6'30"
violin, guitar, and vibraphone
Circus (2004) 25'
entertainment in 9 movements for flute and piano
**commissioned by The American Composers' Forum, Jerome Commissioning
Program for Calliope**
Rhapsody for Two (1998) 6'
violin/viola duo
**commissioned by Douglas Beilman and Joanna Hood for the 1999 Chamber
Music New Zealand Festival**
Soliloquy (2005) 5'30"
SATB
Text by Edward Abbey (permission pending)
Marsden Hartley Songs (2003) 7'
soprano and piano
**commissioned by the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art
Text by Marsden Hartley (by permission of Yale University Press)
| 1) |
A grammar of harmony |
6’04” |
| 2) |
Verdun | 5’30” |
| 3) |
The invisible island |
4’22” |
| 4) |
Tikkun Olam |
3’55” |
| 5) |
Sand Creek |
4’46” |
| 6) |
Nij Dhar |
3’39” |
| 7) |
The golden alphabet |
2’48” |
| 8) |
Miracles fell like drops of healing rain |
5’11” |
| 9) |
Ancestral blue |
4’42” |
| 10) |
A road to awe |
7’25” |
| 11) |
The inner cosmos |
5’34” |
| 1) |
Prologue: The Pangaea | 7’01” |
| 2) |
& the hole gazed back... | 4’47” |
| 3) |
Carnivorous plants | 4’14” |
| 4) |
Orange dust: ancient chemical knowledge | 5’23” |
| 5) |
Pandemic | 4’40” |
| 6) |
A
slightly shimmering heap |
3’29” |
| 7) |
Interlude: House of air, Interiors | 4’39” |
| 8) |
A quailing prairie | 2’53” |
| 9) |
Veiled dead zones | 5’06” |
| 10) |
Hidden
catalyst |
4’22” |
| 11) |
Slick green stones | 3’34” |
| 12) |
Epilogue: Larger than home | 4’30” |
| 13) |
...a
terminus of blue |
2’57” |
Program Notes
Available on Music from SEAMUS CD Series
Remnants (1998) 13'
tape alone
Boys in the Attic (2001) 2’
acousmatic remix
Tribute to Aerosmith
18700 (1992) 6'20"
long version 11'
taped piece composed at the Aspen Music Festival
Electroacoustic Works with Instruments
Vastly Shrinking Space (2007) 14'
cello and fixed media
**Commissioned
by newEar and Madeleine Shapiro
Unnatural Selection (2001) 13’
bass clarinet and computer
**Commissioned by newEar**
Premier: St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Kansas City November 2, 2001.
Fantasie (2000) 12'
for erhu and recorded ensembles on tape
**Commissioned by Music from China**
Church Keys (1999) 12'
piano and tape
**Commissioned by the Missouri Music Teachers Association**
Written for HyeKyung Lee
Degrees of Separation "Grandchild of Tree"
(1999) 10'
amplified cactus, effects, and tape
Program Notes
Available on Capstone Records
Parallax 2 "Apparitions"(1997) 11'
Fine Lines for cello and Tape
Written for Craig Hultgren
Parallax 1 "Violin" (1996) 15'
violin and tape
Geographic Bells (1994) 7'
soprano saxophone and tape
Polyglot (1997) 12'
Dance and Music: Cocreated by Shannon Bradford (choreography) and
Paul Rudy
Trio for Three (1995) 16'
for Movement, Sound, and Light
an inter-media contrapuntal work
Water Into Light (1995) 50'
incidental music for play by Wesley Middleton
Dance Suite (1995) 17'
Four Pieces for dance from Water into Light incidental music
Colorado: A Hikers Perspective (1991) 25'
2 Slide Projectors and Tape
Silver Express (1992) 6'
jazz ensemble
*Commissioned by Terry Sawchuk
bossa nova
Childs Play (1990)
jazz quintet: tenor, trumpet, piano, bass and drums
Four Wood (1991) 9'
Big Band
Terry Sawchuk, Composer
*Winner: special citation in jazz arranging from the Wichita Jazz
Festival, 1992.
Yes and No (1990) 5'
Big Band
Wayne Shorter, Composer
Sunshowers (1989) 6'
Big Band
Clint Houston, Composer
