1994 – Duration: 8 min
Minimum orchestra required: 2 fl, 2 ob, 2 cl, bs, 2 trp, 2 hrn, 2 trb, tb, 2 perc, timp, strings
Description: A charming small work for a chamber orchestra.
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Instrumentation: picc, 2 fl, 2 ob, EH, 2 cl, BsCl, 2 bsn, 3 trp, 4 hrn, 2trb, BsTrb, tba, 3 perc, timp, harp, strings
Duration: 8 minutes
Download the score:
The Pleiades – Full Score
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The Pleiades
The Pleiades is a group of seven stars that is part of the Taurus constellation. It is also called the Seven Sisters. Many astronomers say that it is best seen by first finding it and then looking away from it. I love this concept.
2004 – 5 Movements – Duration: 42 minutes
Minimum orchestra required: 2 fl(picc), 2 ob (EH), 2 cl, 2bsn, 3 trp, 4 hrn, 3 trb, tba, 3 perc, timp, harp, strings
Description: Five movements, each based on a card from the tarot deck. Although it has not been done, I have always thought that it would be cool to have a local luminary draw the cards from the conductor’s hand and then project them behind the orchestra (they are very colorful) and then play the movements in the order they were drawn. Below are the movements as performed by the Capital City Symphony.
The Tarot – O The Fool
The Tarot – The Hanged Man
The Tarot – The Emperor
The Tarot – The Star
The Tarot – The Magician
2004 – 5 Movements – Duration: 26 minutes
Minimum orchestra required: 2 fl(picc), 2 ob, 2 cl, 2bsn, 2 trp, 2 hrn, 1 perc, timp, strings, solo guitar
Description: This was a commission for the guitarist Masayuki Kato. It has been played and recorded in the US by Peter Fields. The orchestral parts are a snap. The guitarist needs to be a master.
Follows the Minotaur myth from its birth to its death in the Labyrinth, and Theseus’s tragic journey home from Crete.
Full orchestra – duration for three movements: 20 minutes.
pic, 2fl, 2ob, eh, 4cl, 2bs, cb, 4hr, 3trp, 4trb, tba, 3perc, timp, strings, harp.
Download the score:
Movement #1 – Pasiphae and the White Bull – Full Score
Movement #2 – Labyrinth – Full Score
Movement #3 – Theseus – Full Score
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Movement #1 – Pasiphae and the White Bull
Movement #2 – Labyrinth
Movement #3 – Theseus
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Movement #1
Movement #2
Movement #3
