The Suite For Guitar and Orchestra

2004 – 5 Movements – Duration: 26 minutes

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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.

Score Sheets

Minotaur

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
Stream the music:
Movement #1 – Pasiphae and the White Bull

Movement #2 – Labyrinth

Movement #3 – Theseus

Download the MP3s:
Movement #1
Movement #2
Movement #3

The Blue Chevrolet & Brooklyn Affair

The Blue Chevrolet & Brooklyn Affair

The Blue Chevrolet

2002 – 4 Movements – Duration: 33 minutes

Description: A musical road trip. My parents used to drive us up Rt. 1 from Virginia to Maine each Summer. This is my memory of that trip. This has been performed as individual movements. Especially “The Detour, the Argument, and Finally, the Map” (movement 3) and “Home” (movement 4).

Minimum orchestra required: 2 fl (picc), 2 ob(EH), 2 cl, 2bsn, 3 trp, 4 hrn, 3 trb, tba, 3 perc, timp, harp, strings

Score Sheets

The Detour | Ah, The Scenic Overlook | The Blue Chevrolet | Home

The Brooklyn Affair

2001 – 4 Movements – Duration: 30 minutes

Description: This piece is a blast to play and to conduct. The violinist Janice Martin knows this piece well and is available to play it.

The Brooklyn Affair – Movement II: The Subway Chase

Minimum orchestra required: 2 fl (picc), 2 ob (eh), 2 cl, 2 bsn, 2 trp, 3 hrn, 2 trb, tba, 2 perc, timp, harp, strings, solo violin

Score Sheets

Movement I | Movement II | Movement III | Movement IV

The Fablers "Internal Bleeding" Tour

The Fablers will begin their “Internal Bleeding” tour this Valentine’s night, at Germano’s Trattoria, by sharing their humorous and always poignant musical stories of Love, Lust, Adultery & Cars.

The Fablers are comprised of the ever clever and multi-talented Charlie Barnett, and the beautiful Marilyn Older, whose sultry voice is outshown only by her fiery wit.

Whether you’re madly in love, completely brokenhearted, or somewhere in between, come join us for a not-so-sappy show this Valentine’s. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, but mostly you’ll be glad that you are no longer 19.

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