April 29, 2012
Parvulus...
Here is my Parvulus enim natus est nobis, as recently performed by the Case Concert Choir under Dr. Matthew Garrett. This is the bootleg version; the official professional recording will come soon.
"For unto us a Child is born..."
February 15, 2012
Because there isn't enough of my music on the Net...
Ok, it's almost-Lent, not All Souls, but here's an old chamber piece with a Halloweenish theme, Samhain Music, for English horn, viola, and string bass. The movements:
1. Autumnal separations (canonic rondo), which runs into:
2. Dance of the teenage Satanists
3. First night below
Performers are Margi Griebling-Haigh, Diana Packer, Scott Haigh (respectively)
And here's a set of songs, texts by a well-known poet:
1. One perfect rose
2. Interior
3.Resume
4. Fable
5. Frustration
sung by Florence Spencer with Viola Harwood at the piano.
The "Dry" Brautiganlieder, from 1975, about the earliest pieces of mine that I can still stand.
I. Romeo and Juliet
II. The Winos on Potrero Hill
III. Restaurant
The pianist is Nicholas Underhill, with some horrendous baritone who had no business singing solo in public.
Several piano pieces: Farewell to Guinness, and Wormburgers.
And a piece from grad school days, a trio for clarinet, viola, and piano, played by the Magnolia Ensemble.
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January 27, 2012
Time for a few new pieces with a religious bent
First let's have On This Mountain, the piece just done at the New Voices @ CUA Festival in D.C. (This isn't that performance, but the premiere). It's for soprano, flute, oboe and piano
And here is Prayers in the Night Sky, for orchestra. Maybe stretching the religious theme a bit.
And while we're on religion, here's a religious piece of quite a different bent: Ritual for the Mother, for women's voices with flute and harp. Not sure I should be spreading paganism, but it is what it is.
And Huntress for orchestra is also a bit Old time Religion too, I'm afraid.
October 24, 2011
Some new choral music
Hi folks,
Here are some recent performances of choral works of mine, from the Cleveland Chamber Singers concert of 10/18:
Ave Maria
Mass for 5 Voices:
Kyrie
Gloria
Sanctus
Agnus Dei
October 06, 2011
Beatitudes
Here's a recording of my recent choral work, The Beatitudes, from a concert given 8/28/11 at immaculate Conception Church, Cleveland.
December 02, 2010
Warm-up for 7 trumpets
This isn't for 7 trumpets; it's for organ, just like Ezra Sims' String Quartet #2 isn't for string quartet. It's a Book of Revelations reference. This is NOT played on the organ of St. Anne's, Mosely, UK, by the famed Irish/Arabic organist Finn Ali Mack, a Hauptwerk artist. There are a few infelicities in stop management, but I still think it works pretty well. If you're like a real organist and want to play this, drop me a line.
September 10, 2010
Some organ music
We haven't had a podcast here (or anything else) for awhile, so why not some of my chorale preludes, ably played by Todd Wilson?
Down Ampney
O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden
40 Days: a prelude on Heinlein