Category: featured soloist

FRANKENSTEIN, the Concerto

BUT, THE MOON

CONCERTO No. 3 FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA

BALLADE FOR VIOLA AND STRINGS, Op. 47

THIN ICE

Thin Ice, for cello and fourteen players, was written for Greg Hesselink and Sequitur during the Fall of 2004 and the Spring of 2006 and is dedicated to them. My heartfelt thanks go to Harold Meltzer and Sarah Laimon for their unflagging support, and, especially, to Greg Hesselink, Paul Hostetter, and the musicians of Sequitur for their artistry and commitment.

 Thin Ice divides into four movements of unequal length (played attacca (without pause)) lasting about twenty two minutes. Movements one, two and three group together as a unit. They are, each in their different ways, unsettled and restless. The fourth and most extensive movement, beginning after a brief breathing space, serves to balance the preceding movements and to ultimately provide a sense of finality and repose.

 The first movement is substantial and wide-ranging. At the beginning, the cello and the strings play as if in two different meters and tempi. The 3/8 polyrhythm of the opening string pizzicati will return -- both at the end of the movement and as the meter of the second movement scherzo.

TROIS CHANSONS DE BILITIS

ENCOUNTER

CANTILENA FOR OBOE & STRING ORCH

Inventions On 3/4 Of A Tone

REVENANT - Concerto for Horn and Orchestra (2004)

CONCERTO FOR FLUTE AND CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

ADYTUM (2003)

SAX AND SPEND

PSALM 23

Dodge at Mann Gulch

Program note:
The text seen in the video accompanying the performer and
electronic sound in this piece includes a few sentences from chapters 3
and 5 of Norman MacLean’s book Young Men and Fire. That work
describes the happenings on August 5, 1949 in Montana during the
Mann Gulch fire that killed 12 firefighters who had parachuted into
the wilderness. On that day, crew chief Wag Dodge was able to set an
escape fire so that the main forest fire could wash over him while he
lay in the ashes. Dodge was not able to convince any others in the
crew to go into the area of the escape fire.