Category: mixed instrumental ens

Symphony of Drones No. 1

Symphony of Drones #1 (2001) is a symphony in the most literal meaning of the word, a collection of sounds, in this case, those centered around a drone mentality. It is a conducted, graphically notated piece designed for any collection of four or more pitched instruments. It is in a three -movement form, and each movement addresses various indeterminate and structured improvisational concepts that explore textures that ornament, enhance and disrupt a fused and continuous ensemble timbre.

BUT, THE MOON

MENAGERIE

About the Texts-Although virtually unknown in the United States, these poems for children are
celebrated in France, regarded in much the same way as Mother Goose Rhymes are
here. Almost all French schoolchildren are said to know La Fourmi.
While not all of the poems in this set portray their subjects with such fantastic traits as
a giant, multilingual ant, they all imagine an intricate, singular, and frequently ironic -
- sometimes dramatic – existence. There is the heroic seahorse that no one has been
able to ride or harness, the industrious grasshopper who rests only on Sundays, the
fearful leopard who sings duets with the nightingale, the frolicking zebra who wears
his own prison, the firefly that feeds on the moon as it sprinkles dreams on sleeping
children. All, too, present the kind of contrasting moods and the occasional internal
twist that make them very rich material as musical texts.

LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN

SYNTONIC DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS (see NOSTALGIA)

PIECE FOR FLUTE,RECORDER AND STRING TRIO

CONCERTINO FOR OBOE & STRINGS

SYMPHONY NO.5

SYMPHONIC ODE

PROLOGUE & DITHYRAMB

IN A MULE DRAWN WAGON

TRUE BEAUTY, THE

MUSIC FOR RECORDER, SAXOPHONE AND BASS(MINOR BIRD BLUES IN A)

PAUL BUNYAN JUMP

BRASS PIANO, THE