24 Tone Preludes, Op. 260

Op. 260 24 TONE PRELUDES (November 16, 2016)
Freely realized on the first 24 ordinal tone rows, after Claude Debusy's Preludes
     I.  Dances of the Devilettes
     II.  Veiled Sails
     III.  Plane Winds
     IV. Sound Perfumes
     V.  The Foothills of Annapurna
     VI.  Snowstorm
     VII.  Westron Wynde
     VIII.  Brunette
     IX.  Serenadis Interruptus
     X.  Drowned
     XI.  A Midsummer Night's Dance
     XII.  Jive
     XIII.  Fools
     XIV.  Dead and Gone
     XV.  Havana Wine
     XVI.  Exquisite Dancing
     XVII.  Quiet Town
     XVIII.  Jive General
     XIX.  Moonlit Audience
     XX. Oskar's Scherzo
     XXI. U.S. Eccentric
     XXII. Canupus Calm
     XXIII. Fierce Alternatives
     XXIV. Fourth of Fireworks


      Score:

Mark and Jerry Go the the CVS, Op. 259

Op. 259 MARK AND JERRY GO TO THE CVS (NOVEMBER 10, 2012) 
    (November 1, 2016)
    Scherzo for Orchestra
    4444 4431 Hp Cel Pf Bells Chimes Crotales Vib Cyms Gongs Mar
          Strgs


    Score:

Performance:

      November 13, 2016
         Video
         Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

         

Jonah, Op. 258

Op. 258 JONAH (October 15, 2016)
     Fish Story for Voices and Instruments
          I. Fish Story
          II. Belly Dance
          III. Assyrian Wipe-Out
          IV. Out of his Gourd


    Score:

The Decameron: Sixth Day, Op. 257

Op. 257 THE DECAMERON (October 1, 2016)
100 Novels for Voices and Instruments
SIXTH DAY / Introduction
Novel I.  A knight offers to carry Madonna Oretta on horseback
     with a story
Novel II.  Cisti gives Messer Geri Spina to know that he has asked
     that of him which he should not
Novel III.  Monna Nonna de' Pulci silences the Bishop of Florence
Novel IV.  Chichibio converts Currado Gianfigliazzi's wrath into
     laughter
Novel V.  Messer Forese da Rabatta and Master Giotto deride one
     another's scurvy appearance
Novel VI.  Michele Scalza proves to certain young men that the
     Baronci are the best gentlemen in the world
Novel VII.  Madonna Filippa, being found by her husband with her
     lover, is cited before the court, and by a ready and jocund answer
     acquits herself
Novel VIII.  Fresco admonishes his niece not to look at herself in the
     glass, if 'tis, as she says, grievous to her to see nasty folk
Novel IX.  Guido Cavalcanti by a quip meetly rebukes certain
     Florentine gentlemen who had taken him at a disadvantage
Novel X.  Fra Cipolla promises to shew certain country-folk a
     feather of the Angel Gabriel, in lieu of which he finds coals


Score:

To Those Who Come After: Three Elegies, Op. 256

Op. 256 TO THOSE WHO COME AFTER: THREE ELEGIES
(September 1, 2016, after Bertolt Brecht)
    I. Truly I Live in a Time of Darkness
    II. I Came to the Cities in a Time of Disorder
    III.  You Who'll Be Borne After the Flood


Score:

Performance:

November 3, 2018
Goat Hall Productions Fresh Voices XVIII
Community Music Center, 544 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA

The Great Widow, Op. 255

Op. 255 THE GREAT WIDOW
(ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER GROPIUS WERFEL, PART II)
     (August 1, 2016)
LXI. 1939 - GRETE / BRUCKNER
     (Grete's Death / Bruckner's Third Negotiations)
LXII. 1940 - PYRANEES (Alma's Escape)
LXIII. 1941 - LOS ANGELES / HANDSOME AUGUST HESS /
     ALBRECHT JOSEPH (Alma's Politics)
LXIV. 1942 - ERICH MARIA REMARQUE /
     ALEXANDER VON ZEMLINSKY (Drinking Song)
LXV. 1943 - SANTA BARBARA / FRANZ WERFEL
     (Werfel's Heart Attacks)
LXVI. 1944 - TORBERG / KOKOSCHKA / BEMELMANS
     (Alma's Friends)
LXVII. 1945 - MOLL / EBERSTALLER / MUSSOLINI / HITLER /
     WERFEL (Alma's Deaths)
LXVIII. 1946 - THOMAS MANN / BRUNO WALTER /
     CLAIRE GOLL (Alma's Prospects)
LXIX. 1947 - ARNOLD SCHOENBERG / THOMAS MANN
     (Schoenberg's Ire)
LXX. 1948 - ANTON BRUCKNER / ANNA MAHLER
     (Alma's Sale / Anna's Visit)
LXXI. 1949 - STRAUSS / PFITZNER / SCHOENBERG / MANN…
     (Alma's 70th Birthday)
LXXII. 1950 - ANNA / MARINA (Anna's Move)
LXXIII. 1951 - ARNOLD SCHOENBERG / ANNA MAHLER
     (Schoenberg's Death / Anna's Mask)
LXXIV. 1952 - YOU BET YOUR LIFE
     (Alma's Move / Anna's Appearance)
LXXV. 1953 - THORNTON WILDER / SAMUEL STEWARD
     (Alma's Encounters)
LXXVI. 1954 - VIENNA STATE OPERA / RODIN / MAHLER /
     STRAUSS (Alma's Protestations)
LXXVII. 1955 - BENEDIKT FRED DOLBIN /
     LIGHT IN THE NIGHT
     (Photo VI)
LXXVIII. 1956 - 120 EAST 73RD STREET /
     BLISS IN THE WOODS
     (Photo VII)
LXXIX. 1957 - LIBRARY / ONSLAUGHT (Photo VIII)
LXXX. 1958 - AND THE BRIDGE IS LOVE (Alma's Biography)
LXXXI. 1959 - MAHLER / PFITZNER / ZEMLINSKY /
     SCHOENBERG / BERG / KORNGOLD /
     KRENEK / BRITTEN (Alma's Dedicators)
LXXXII. 1960 - WALTER GROPIUS / PAUL ZSOLNAY /
     WILLY HAAS (Alma's Reactions)
LXXXIII. 1961 - DERYCK COOKE (Mahler's 10th)
LXXXIV . 1962 - BERNSTEIN / LA GRANGE / WOOD / CARR
     (The Alma Problem)
LXXXV. 1963 - IGOR STRAVINSKY / WALTER GROPIUS /
     OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (Photo IX)
LXXXVI. 1964 - ELIAS CANETTI / AL[BRECHT] JOSEPH /
     FRIEDRICH TORBERG
     (Alma's Death)


     Score:

That's How It Is on this Bitch of an Earth, Op. 254

Op. 254 THAT'S HOW IT IS ON THIS BITCH OF AN EARTH
For Sound Files  (May 16, 2016)
[Title: Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) - Waiting for Godot (1953)

Source Material: David Attenborough (b. 1926) -
     Color Original-Broadcast Filmography (1963-2016)]

Quest Under Capricorn: Journey Through Northern Australia (1963)
I. Desert Gods
II. Hermits of Borroloola
III. Buffalo Geese and Men
IV. The Artists of Arnhem Land
V. Bush Walkabout
VI. The First Australians

The Miracle of Bali (1969) (May 17)   
I. The Midday Sun
II. Night
III. A Concert of Music

The Tribal Eye (1975) (May 18)
I. Behind the Mask
II. The Crooked Beak of Heaven (May 19)
III. The Sweat of the Sun (May 20)
IV. Kingdom of Bronze (May 21)
V. Woven Gardens (May 22)
VI. Man Blong Custom (May 23)

Life On Earth (1979, Edward Williams, 1921-2013) (May 24)
I. Infinite Variety
II. Building Bodies (May 25)
III. First Forests (May 26)
IV. Swarming Hordes (May 27)
V. Conquest of the Waters (May 28)
VI. Invasion of the Land (May 29)

Twelve Virelais, Op. 253

Op. 253 TWELVE VIRELAIS (AbbaA), Op. 253
     (April 15, 2016)
     I. GUILLAUME D'AMIENS LE PIEGNEUR
     (WILLIAM OF AMIENS, THE PAINTER, 1220-1270)
         "C'est la fin" ("It's the end")
     II. TROUVERE SONG
          "E, dame jolie" ("Ah, pretty lady")
     III. LAUDE
          "A tutta gente" ("To all people")
     IV. BALLATA
           "Santo Lorenzo" ("St. Lawrence")
     V. JEHAN DE LESCUREL (1270-1330)
          "Dis tans plus" ("Say more than you should")
     VI-VIII. GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT (1300-1377)

          "Douce dame jolie" ("Sweet, Lovely Lady")
          "Comment qu'a moy"
          "Se ma dame"
     IX. GIOVANNI DA FLORENTITIA  (1330-1370)
          "Io son un pellegrin"
     X. GUILLAUME DUFAY (1400-1474)
          "Helas mon Deuil"
     XI. JOHANNES OCKEGHEM (1410-1497)
          "Ma maitress"
     XII. JOSQUIN DES PRES (1450-1521)
          "Bergerette savoyene"


     Score:

Eight Waltzes, Op. 252

Op. 252  EIGHT WALTZES from
ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER GROPIUS WERFEL
(April 1, 2016)
I. 1880 - JULIUS VIKTOR BERGER (Alma's Mother's First Lover)
II. 1884 - EMIL JAKOB SCHINDLER (Alma's Father)
III. 1894 - SCHULE (Alma's Education)
IV. 1895 - MAX BURCKHARD / OTTO MAHLER
     (Alma's First Kiss / Gustav's Brother's Suicide)
V. 1897 - GUSTAV KLIMT (Alma's Second Kiss)
VI. 1910 - WALTER GROPIUS / SIGMUND FREUD
     (Alma's First Affair / Mahler's Psychoanalysis)
VII. 1918  - HULDA RESERL / HERMINE MOOS / MARTIN WERFEL
     (Kokoschka's Doll / Alma's Son)
VIII. 1937 - FRANZ WERFEL / CARL ZUCKMAYER /
     FRANZ VON PAPEN / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA
     (Alma's Farewell Party)


Score:

Performance:

May 21, 2016
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
St. Mark's Lutheran Church, San Francisco, CA

Variations on the Romanesca, Op. 251

Op. 251 VARIATIONS ON THE ROMANESCA (March 1, 2016)
For (Period) Orchestra
I. Luis de Narvaez (1490-1547)
          Differences sobre Gardeme las Vacas (1538)
II. Braye Lute Book (b. c. 1530)
          Pavana (Variations on The Romanesca, 1560)
III. Dublin Virginal Book (b. c. 1540)
          Variations on The Romanesca (1570)
IV. England (b. c. 1620)
          Greensleeves to a Ground (1650)
V. Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
          Partite sopra l'Aria della Romanesca (1616)
VI. Johannes Pachelbel (1653-1708)
          Canon in D (1694)
VII. Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
          Dido and Aeneas: When I Am Laid in Earth (1689)
VIIII. J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
          Organ Passacaglia in C Minor (1713)
IX. F.J. Haydn (1732-1809)
          Symphony No. 94 ("Surprise") (1791)
X. W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)
          Variations on "Ah, Vous Dirai-Je Maman" (1781)
XI. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
          Symphony No. 7, Op. 92 (1812)
XII. Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
          Piano Quintet in A Major ("Trout"), Op. 114 (1819)
XIII. Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
          Symphonie Fantastique (1830)
XIV. Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
          Totentanz (1853)
XV. Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
          Rigoletto (1851)
XVI. Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
          Symphony No. 4, Op. 98 (1885)
XVII. Edward Elgar (1857- 1934)
          Variations on an Original Theme ("Enigma"), Op. 36 (1899)
XVIII. Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
          Symphony No. 1 (1888)
XIX. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
          Symphony No. 8 (1955)
XX. Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
          Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 (1934)
XXI. Charles Ives (1874-1954)
          Variations on America (1891)
XXII. Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
          Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31 (1928)
XXIII. Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
           Bolero (1928)
XXIV. Joe "King" Oliver (1881-1938)
          Dippermouth Blues (1923)
XXV. Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
           Ebony Concerto (1945)
XXVI. Anton Webern (1883-1945)
          Passacaglia, Op. 1 (1908)
XXVII. Alban Berg (1885-1935)
          Wozzeck, Op. 7 (1922)
XXVIII. Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941)
          Dead Man Blues (1926)
XXIX. Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
          Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 26 (1921)
XXX. Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
          La Creation du Monde (1923)
XXXI. George Gershwin (1898-1937)
          Prelude II (1926)
XXXII. Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
          Appalachian Spring (1944)
XXXIII. Louis Armstong (1901-1971)
          West End Blues (1928)
XXXIV. Joe Garland (1903-1977)
          In the Mood (1939)
XXXV. Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
         Wondrous Love Variations on a 
                    Shape Note Hymn, Op. 34 (1959)
XXXVI. John Cage (1912-1992)
         Suite for Toy Piano (1948) with Variations V (1965)
XXXVII. Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997)
         Study No. 3 ("Boogie-Woogie Suite") (1949)
XXXVIII. Benjamnin Britten (1913-1976)
         Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 (1946)
XXXIX. Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994)
          Variations on a Theme by Paganini (1941)
XL. William James "Willie" Dixon (1915-1992)
          Hoochie Coochie Man (1954)
XLI. John Birks "Dizzy" Gilespie (1917-1993)
          Shaw'Nuff (1945)
XLII. Thelonius Monk (1917-1982)
          Misterioso (1948)
XLIII. Leonard Bernstein (1818-1990)
          Chichester Psalms (1965)
XLIV. Luciano Berio (1925-2003) - Sinfonia: III (1969)
XLV. Pierre Boulez 1925-2016) - Le Marteau San Maitre: I (1954)
XLVI. George Crumb (b. 1929) - Black Angels (1970)
XLVII. Terry Riley (b. 1935) - In C (1964)
XLVIII. Steve Reich (b. 1936) - Octet (1979)
XLIX. Philip Glass (b. 1937) - Einstein on the Beach (1975)
L. John Lennon (1940-1980) - Happiness Is a Warm Gun (1968)
LI. Roger Waters (b. 1943) - Wish You Were Here: Shine On You Crazy Diamond (1975)
LII. Jimmy Page (b. 1944) - Stairway to Heaven (1971)
LIII. David Bowie (1947-2016) - Ziggy Stardust (1972)
LIV. Sting (b. 1951) - Every Breath You Take (1983)
LV. Mark Alburger (b. 1957) - Variations and Theme, Op. 6 (1976)

Performances:

October 15, 2017
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
Park-Presidio Methodist Church, San Francisco

October 27, 2018
The Opus Project presents Opus 70: Ghost Dances
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA



Score:

Quintet ("Bullets"), Op. 250

Op. 250 QUINTET ("BULLETS") (February 29, 2016)
     For Orchestra
          Allegro immoderato ed impassivo
          Scherzo.  Presto a caso
          Andantino Convalescenza
          Vivace non Guarigione


     Score:

Estampies, Op. 249

Op. 249 ESTAMPIES (February 28, 2016)
          Eight Settings and Eight Sound-File Assemblages from the
            Manuscrit du Roi (1200)
               La Prime Estampie Real
               La Seconde Estampie Real
               La Tierche Estampie Real
               La Quarte Estampie Real
               La Quinte Estampie Real
               La Sexte Estampie Real
               La Septeme Estampie Real
               La Uitime Estampie Real


          Score: