WHEN TIME

Nicklettes

An Orchestral Children's Suite

Please see piano solo version for program note.

NOCTURNE for Bassoon and Strings

To Dance to the Whistling Wind

 

• Commissioned by Laurel Zucker  
•  “a spell of introspective intensity . . . wonderfully concise and effective . . . [made its] points with quiet power.”  (Cecelia Porter, The Washington Post)

 

SONATINA for two trumpets in B-flat and piano

A work in three movements written for Raymond Mase and Kevin Cobb, trumpets from the American Brass Quintet.

Nonsense Music

1. A Man Who Wasn't; 2. Sylvan Catch; 3. Peas with Honey; 4. One Fine October Morning; 5. A Little Bit Wrong  

 

Five short song settings of five nonsense poems (three anonymous, two credited), which reflects my childhood in New Zealand.

COLLOQUY

The composer's own voice is memorialized on the playback tape, which features a speaker (electronically processed voice) having a "conversation" with the orchestra about electronic music and the various sounds that can be synthesized (a la mid-1970s), as a friendly jousting back and forth between the tape and the instrumentalists in the orchestra. Requires a tape operator to stop and start a CD or computer audio files at precise moments in the score.  

Songs from "Letter to a Daughter"

The play is a monologue of a mother (a former cabaret singer)writing to her estranged daughter.  The mother sings the 5 songs during the course of the play.  The songs work well as a set apart from a performance of the play.    

Arirang Variations

Commissioned by the Barlow Foundation for Kenneth Tse