Description: These tracks are from a huge multi-screen project at the Newseum when it was in Arlington, Virginia. It was a powerful exhibit featuring images shown on a 112-foot screen that was sometimes divided into nine parts, sometimes divided into three parts, and sometimes left as one giant screen. The images conveyed an incredibly powerful anti-war message.
War Stories – Civil War Theme
War Stories – World War I Theme
War Stories – Korean War Theme
2004 – Film Score
Description: These pieces are from Paper Clips, a wonderful documentary that I scored. The film tells the story of the town of Whitwell, Tennessee, and its junior high school’s project designed to teach their kids the scale of the Holocaust by collecting 6 million paper clips — a project that involves the whole town and beyond. I tried to match the somber but hopeful tone of the story with compositions to reflect the Appalachian setting, with the overtones of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. Our team traveled to Nashville to record singer Alison Krauss on several songs, including a haunting version of the traditional dance tune “Jubilee.”
Paper Clips Orchestral Theme
Paper Clips – Cues featuring Janice Martin (violin), Greg Watkins (bass), Robert Sullivan (guitar), and Lukasz Czyner (cello)
Paper Clips – Cues featuring vocalist Alison Krauss
2007 – 5 Movements – Duration: 15 minutes
Description: 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. This recording features clarinetist Ben Redwine.
Instrumentation: harp, strings, solo clarinet
The Fireman’s Carnival – Movement 1 – Twilight Bicycle Ride
The Fireman’s Carnival – Movement 2 – Shooting Gallery
The Fireman’s Carnival – Movement 3 – Ferris Wheel
The Fireman’s Carnival – Movement 4 – House of Mirrors
The Fireman’s Carnival – Movement 5 – Dreams
Download scores: Twilight Bicycle Ride | Shooting Gallery | Ferris Wheel | House of Mirrors | Dreams
2007 – 3 Movements – Duration: 18 minutes
Description: I wrote this for violist Osman Kivrak. 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 the country. A postcard, if you will. I’m especially proud of the second movement.
Instrumentation: 2 fl(picc), 2 ob (EH), 2 cl, bsn, 3 trp, 4 hrn, 3 trb, tba, 2 perc, timp, harp, strings, solo viola
From Istanbul – Movement 1 – Kula
From Istanbul – Movement 2 – Ushak
From Istanbul – Movement 3 – Kotshak
Download scores: Movement I – Kula | Movement II – Ushak | Movement III – Kotshak
2007 – 1 Movement – Duration: 15 minutes
Description: In my film music career, I have always wanted only two things: 1. To score 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 an audience.
Instrumentation: 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
The Far Tortoogas
Download score: The Far Tortoogas