2006 – 3 movements – Duration: 12 min
Description: Adapted from a dance score I originally wrote for the modern ballet choreographer Natalie Moffett Smith. The work focused on three domestic scenes.
Instrumentation: piano, violin, cello
Three Interiors – Movement 1
Three Interiors – Movement 2
Three Interiors – Movement 3
Download audio: Movement 1 (MP3) | Movement 2 (MP3) | Movement 3 (MP3)
2001 – 3 Movements – Duration: 15 minutes
Description: Very melodic piece for a very good double bassist. Robert Oppelt from the National Symphony Orchestra has recorded this and plays it beautifully. Greg Watkins also has performed this piece and would be quite a concert attraction – he is something of a rock star now.
Instrumentation: harp, strings, solo bass
Serenade For Double Bass – Allegro Grazioso
Serenade For Double Bass – Duetto Sentimentale
Serenade For Double Bass – Allegro Ritmico
2008 – 7 Movements – Duration: 20 minutes
String orchestra or String quintet
2004 – 1 Movement – Duration: 10 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: This was originally a ballet score written for Natalie Moffet-Smith. It is a very cool piece of very colorful music.
Duration: 18 min
Minimum orchestra required: 2 fl(picc), 2 ob(EH), 2 cl, 2bsn, 3 trp, 4 hrn, 3 trb, tba, 3 perc, timp, harp, strings
1348 was the worst year of the plague. The population of medieval Europe was nearly cut in half over the course of a few years. There are many strange parallels between the 14th century and our own: a belief that the apocalypse is near, a surge in religious fundamentalism, an unexplained and incurable pestilence. I would just refer the curious to Barbara Tuchman’s brilliant history, A Distant Mirror. Why I felt this was something to write music about is something that will have to remain between my therapist and myself.
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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.
Stream the music:
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