Once again, Chaise Lounge packed the house at Chris’ Jazz Cafe in Philadelphia. Chris’ caters to a highly educated Jazz audience and when Marilyn sang her first note, jaws literally dropped. We hope to make this a regular gig and to add the World Cafe onto the tour by next time.
Lyrical Modern Classical Music2007 – 5 Movements – Duration: 15 minutes
Minimum orchestra required: harp, strings, solo clarinet
Description: Five movements. A misty, romantic piece about going to a tiny carnival in a small town at night. The movements are based loosely on the experiences of the attractions at the carnival: Ferris Wheel, Shooting Gallery, etc. Ben Redwine plays this piece really well and would certainly be available to perform this again. (a shameless plug)
Score Sheets
Twilight Bicycle Ride | Shooting Gallery | Ferris Wheel | House of Mirrors | Dreams
2007 – 3 Movements – Duration: 18 minutes
Minimum orchestra required: 2 fl(picc), 2 ob (EH), 2 cl, bsn, 3 trp, 4 hrn, 3 trb, tba, 2 perc, timp, harp, strings, solo viola
Description: I wrote this for Osman Kivrak, who is Turkish. And although each movement is named after a town in Turkey the music itself is more of a western tourist’s look at the sights and sounds of Turkey. A postcard, if you will. The middle movement is one of the prettiest pieces of music I have ever written.
Score Sheets
Movement I – Kula | Movement II – Ushak | Movement III – Kotshak
2007 – 1 Movement – Duration: 15 minutes
Minimum orchestra required: 2 fl(picc), 2 ob (EH), 2 cl(bs cl), 2bsn (contra), 3 trp, 4 hrn, 3 trb, tba, 3-4 perc, timp, harp, strings
Description: I have always wanted only two things in my film music career: 1. to write a Sweeping Western and 2. to score a pirate movie. This is the pirate movie… without the visuals. It is programmatic, although I have yet to determine how much of that information to share with the audience?
Score Sheet
On November 19, 2009, West Virgina Public Broadcasting interviewed Charlie.
Listen now to the interview on the Eclectopia Blog at the West Virginia Public Broadcasting
On Sunday, September 20, 2009, Liane Hansen interviewed Chaise Lounge on NPR’s “Weekend Edition.”
Visit NPR and listen to the interview and hear some songs!
Charlie performed with his band The Chaise Lounge, at the Hamilton, in Washington DC, on January 14, 2012. All images were taken by Michael O’Keefe.