Thomas Flaherty

Bowling Bells

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

18 kitchen bowls and 4-channel playback

Year Authored: 

2002

Duration (min): 

10

Alternate Title: 

Bowling Bells

First Performance: 

May 2002, Microfest 2002

Canon a la Mode

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

cello trio

Year Authored: 

1983

Duration (min): 

4

Alternate Title: 

Canon a la Mode

Cellorimbian Flights

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

cello, marimba

Year Authored: 

2006

Duration (min): 

18

Alternate Title: 

Cellorimbian Flights

Movements-Titles: 

3

First Performance: 

January 9, 2006

The combination of cello and marimba is one that has long interested me. The similar range and complementary sonic blend balance the obvious possibilities for contrast. When Roger Lebow requested a piece for cello and percussion, cello and marimba were al

Publisher: 

ACA

Christmas Quodibet

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

cello quartet

Year Authored: 

1986

Duration (min): 

4

Alternate Title: 

Christmas Quodibet

Cross-Currents

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

2 guitars

Year Authored: 

1989

Duration (min): 

12

Alternate Title: 

Cross-Currents

Movements-Titles: 

3

First Performance: 

November 12, 1989 Elgart-Yates Duo

Recording: 

Bridge Records 9042

1-Alternating, 2-Interlude, 3-Undulating

Dancing With Gravity

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

violin, viola, cello, piano

Year Authored: 

2000

Duration (min): 

13

Alternate Title: 

Dancing With Gravity

Movements-Titles: 

1

First Performance: 

April 25, 2000 Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players Christ & St. Stephen's Church, New York

Publisher: 

ACA

Duo

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

violin, and cello

Year Authored: 

1993

Duration (min): 

5

Alternate Title: 

Duo

ELEGIE

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

cl,pf

Year Authored: 

1983

Duration (min): 

2

Alternate Title: 

ELEGIE

Five Tunes for Four Cellos

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

2,3,or4 cellos

Year Authored: 

1989

Duration (min): 

5

Alternate Title: 

Five Tunes for Four Cellos

Flutecry

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

flute, tape

Year Authored: 

1994

Duration (min): 

11

Alternate Title: 

Flutecry

First Performance: 

September 30, 1994 Rachael Rudich, flute. Bridges Hall. Pomona College Claremont, CA

Lines of Reflection

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

SSAATB

Year Authored: 

2001

Duration (min): 

6

Alternate Title: 

Lines of Reflection

Movements-Titles: 

1

First Performance: 

December 12, 2001 Pomona College Choir Donna M. Di Grazia, conductor Bridges Hall, Claremont, California

LULLABY

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

cl,pf

Year Authored: 

1984

Duration (min): 

1

Alternate Title: 

LULLABY

Millennium Bridges

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

eleven instrumental parts and singing audience

Year Authored: 

2001

Duration (min): 

5

Alternate Title: 

Millennium Bridges

First Performance: 

premiered September 25, 2001

Music For Orchestra

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

2222/4330/perc/str

Year Authored: 

1976

Duration (min): 

10

Alternate Title: 

Music For Orchestra

Movements-Titles: 

1

First Performance: 

1976 Stony Brook Orchestra, David Lawton, conductor SUNY Stony Brook, NY

Nocturne

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

2222/0000/perc/pf/str

Year Authored: 

1982

Duration (min): 

0

Alternate Title: 

Nocturne

First Performance: 

1982 Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, Larry Hill, conductor Sanders Theater, Cambridge, MA

Older Songs

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

soprano and piano

Year Authored: 

1985

Duration (min): 

5

Alternate Title: 

Older Songs

Pinnacle Fanfare

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

clarinet, viola, and horn

Duration (min): 

3

Alternate Title: 

Pinnacle Fanfare

First Performance: 

Pinnacle Ensemble Sanders Theater, Cambridge, MA

Quintet 'Good Times'

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

cl, vn, va, vc, pno

Duration (min): 

20

Alternate Title: 

Quintet 'Good Times'

Movements-Titles: 

3

First Performance: 

Whittier College, 1985 Almont Ensemble: Al Rice, clarinet; David Stenske, violin; Cynthia Fogg, viola; Tom Flaherty, cello; Charlotte Zelka, piano

Recording: 

Klavier Records KCD-11039

Sandburg Settings

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

soprano, viola, cello, piano

Year Authored: 

2001

Duration (min): 

10

Alternate Title: 

Sandburg Settings

First Performance: 

September 15, 2001 Gwendolyn Lytle, soprano; Cynthia Fogg, viola; Tom Flaherty, cello; Genevieve Lee, piano. Bridges Hall, Claremont California

Semi-Suite

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

solo cello

Year Authored: 

1990

Duration (min): 

8

Alternate Title: 

Semi-Suite

Movements-Titles: 

2

First Performance: 

April 20, 1990 Tom Flaherty, cello Pasadena Conservitory of Music

Shepard's Pi

Instrumentation freestyle: 

toy piano

Year Authored: 

2010

Duration (min): 

10

First Performance: 

February 6, 2010 Genevieve Feiwen Lee, toy piano Bridges Hall, Claremont, CA

Recording: 

http://tomflahertymusic.com/infopages/Shepard%27sPi_infopage.php

Named after cognitive psychologist Roger Shepard, a Shepard scale is an audio illusion in which a scale seems to rise endlessly, without getting higher. The constituent pitches consist of several simultaneous octaves, which fade out at the top of the scale and fade in at the bottom. Taken out of the moving context, the actual octave register of a note is ambiguous to the ear.

A toy piano displays similar ambiguity: as the length of the sounding rods at lowest keys is too short to produce a true bass note, its overtones are louder than its fundamental pitch. Taken out of context the lowest F can sound more like its C overtone, an octave and a fifth higher. This ambiguity is part of the charm of the toy piano, and Shepard’s Pi enjoys playing with that charm, with lots of scales that seem not to get higher, sonorities whose octave register is ambiguous, and moments where the meter and tempo could be heard in several different ways. Oh yes, pi. Just as pi = 3.14159265. . ., so too Shepard’s Pi has slightly more than three electronically produced sounds (all derived from the sound of the toy piano), sections, and tempi.

Publisher: 

ACA

Publisher URL: 

American Composers Alliance

Suite for Cellos

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

8 cellos

Duration (min): 

15

Alternate Title: 

Suite for Cellos

Movements-Titles: 

3

Tetralogue

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

2 string trios and 2 pianos

Duration (min): 

10

Alternate Title: 

Tetralogue

First Performance: 

stony brook, 1975

A Timbered Choir

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

SATB

Year Authored: 

2001

Duration (min): 

10

Alternate Title: 

A Timbered Choir

Text Source/Author: 

Wendell Berry, by Permission of Counterpoint Press

First Performance: 

April 26, 2001 Pomona College Glee Club Donna M. Di Grazia, conductor Clarment United Church of Christ Claremont, California

Timedelusions

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

2333/4331/perc/str

Duration (min): 

11

Alternate Title: 

Timedelusions

First Performance: 

premiered 4/13/93 Jugend Sinfonie Orchestra Dornbirn, Guntram Simma, conductor Vorarlberg, Austria

Trio for Cello and Digital Processor

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

Cello Digital Processor

Year Authored: 

1991

Duration (min): 

14

Alternate Title: 

Trio for Cello and Digital Processor

First Performance: 

4/22/91, Bridges Hall, Pomona College, Tom Flaherty, cello

Recording: 

Bridge Records

Triple Play

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

va, vc, and African Drum

Year Authored: 

1994

Duration (min): 

8

Alternate Title: 

Triple Play

Movements-Titles: 

1

First Performance: 

5/22/94, Cynthia Fogg, viola, Tom Flaherty, cello Katherine Hagedorn, sogo Bridges Hall, Pomona College, Claremont CA

Two Ladies of Verona, The

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

cello duo

Duration (min): 

3

Alternate Title: 

Two Ladies from Verona

Movements-Titles: 

I. Dorie's Aria

Movements-Titles: 

II. Aria's Dory

First Performance: 

June 11, 2001. Beth Goldstein, Tom Flaherty National Cello Institute, Claremont California

Publisher: 

ACA

VARIATIONS

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

pf

Year Authored: 

1973

Duration (min): 

4

Alternate Title: 

VARIATIONS

Variations on 'Es ist genug'

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

organ

Duration (min): 

18

Alternate Title: 

Variations on 'Es ist genug'

First Performance: 

October 2003 William Peterson, organ

When Time was Young

Scoring, for orchestra pieces: 

soprano and clarinet

Year Authored: 

2003

Duration (min): 

4

Alternate Title: 

When Time was Young

Text Source/Author: 

Edward Weismiller, by permission of author

First Performance: 

5/03, Lucy Shelton, soprano; Mica Bregman, clarinet Bridges Auditorium Claremont, CA