increase (2002) 11'
fl,ob,cl,bn,hn,tpt,tbn,pno,synth,2 perc,2 vln,va,vc,db; amp
fl,ob,cl,bn,hn,tpt,tbn,pno,synth,2 perc,2 vln,va,vc,db; amp
SATB chorus, cl, egtr, perc, pno, vc, db
Anthracite Fields was commissioned through Meet the Composer's Commissioning Music/USA program, which is made possible by generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Helen F. Whitaker Fund. Additional support was made possible through the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia Alan Harler New Ventures Fund; the Presser Foundation; The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Philadelphia Music Project.
0+pic.1.2.1/1110/3perc/egtr.kbd/2vn.vc.db
Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center
pf solo, 2 fl, 2 cl, 2 hn, tpt, tbn, perc
solo cello, solo piano, solo percussion, strings
Real Quiet
SSAA playing simple percussion instruments
love fail was co-commissioned by The Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2012 Next Wave Festival, The International Festival of Arts & Ideas, The John F. Kennedy Center Abe Fortas Memorial Fund, The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, The Secrest Artists Series at Wake Forest University, and Hancher Performances at the University of Iowa. Movement 4, 'the wood and the vine', was commissioned by The Newman Center for the Performing Arts at University of Denver, The University of California at Riverside, and the Santa Fe Concert Association in Santa FE, NM. Movement 10, 'I live in pain', in a different version, was originally written for “TheCrossing,” Donald Nally, conductor.
SSAA chorus (or 8 solo women singers) playing simple percussion instruments
The Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2012 Next Wave Festival, The International Festival of Arts & Ideas, The John F. Kennedy Center Abe Fortas Memorial Fund, The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, The Wake Forest University / Secrest Artists Series, and Hancher Performances at the University of Iowa
SATB
Text by David Lang (after Stephen Foster)
The Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia and Leah Stein Dance Company
By Alan Baker
‘Being a maverick is being able to create something that everyone else acknowledges as being something that they haven’t heard before. Where people turn around and say, ”Wow, I haven’t heard that before,” or, ”That’s a new idea.” In a sense, you’ve created something or done something that’s entered the world and is new, which is an amazing thing to do.
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