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 (2019) 8’
for trombone, piano and tape
Synesthesia/Fusion: 3 Painters Portrayed (2019) 15′
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′
- Lucien Goldschmidt
- Nicolas Valinsky
- 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)