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Orchestra
REVELATION
(14')
REVEL
(7') recorded on Opus One # 100; performed: Richmond Sinphonia, The
Baltimore Women's Symphony, New Britain Symphony in Connecticut; Themes
include a meditative 6-note scale, dueling trumpets, a Spanish/gypsy
section, an
E-major melody, a brass chorale and cut-ups of the themes.
MINNESOTA SWALE
(10'11") for flute, oboe, B-flat clarinet, bassoon, B-flat trumpet,
2 French horns,
percussion and strings (8,8,6,6,2). Includes an improvised percussion cadenza.
Commissioned and premiered by the Minnesota Synfonia with Jay Fishman
conducting; performed by the Wellesley College Orchestra, conducted by Joel
Suben; recorded by Opus One in 1995 in Bratislava with the Slovak Radio
Symphony. This piece is available on New Music For Orchestra, Opus One.
Operetta
QOHELETH
words by Roye Dendler, for baritone, contralto, harpsichord, percussion,
commissioned by the Soho Baroque Opera, 1998
Opera
QUEEN CHRISTINA (90') words assemblage
produced: Mills College; one act
Oratorio
JOAN (20')
words from the trial of Joan of Arc commissioned and produced by
Cabrillo
Festival
Chorus
MAGNIFICATE
for SSA and organ/piano, 1998
PRECIOUS MEMORIES (10')
words by Jo-Ann Krestan and the composer; commissioned and produced by
Eclectix, NYC
WYNKEN, BLYNKEN, & NOD (4')
words by Eugene Field; performed by the Mount Sterling High School Madrigal
Singers, John Stegner conducting
Musical Comedies
THE FAT OPERA (75')
The book and lyrics are a collaboration
between the composer and Jo-Ann Krestan.
The Fat Opera is about dealing with the issue
of weight. The cast includes a very large
woman who is quite outgoing/romantic, a
medium sized sweet/thoughtful/depressed
woman, a thin bulimic woman, and a cute
male exercise instructor.) It was produced at
the Greenwich House Music School in New
York City as a one evening equity showcase.
It was remounted non-equity at Caffe e
Dolce, Asbury Park, NJ, directed by George
Hansel for 3 weekends. Selections were also
performed at The Golden Fleece, Theatre 22,
NYC.
NIRVANA MANOR (90')
book and lyrics by Judith Morely
produced by Eccentric Circles off-off
Broadway
ran 3 1/2 weeks
It is about a suburb that is supposed to be
heaven, but isn't. It takes place between
1950 and 1976 and involves a cast of three
generations.
ELIZABETH REX: Or, The Well-Bred Mother Goes To Camp (90')
book and lyrics by Jo-Ann Krestan
Produced at the Carter Theatre, off-off Broadway, ELIZABETH REX ran 3 1/2 weeks.
Selections were also performed at Golden Fleece, NYC. This musical is about a
mother, Elizabeth, who is determined to make Kate, her high church Episcopalian
lesbian daughter, straight. It's also about Kate's lover, friends, and a drag queen
named Lilly who is in love with Elizabeth's minister, Justin, who also loves Lilly.
Music For Theatre
AVON (60')
Avon is a new musical theater work with words by Stephen Paul Miller. In the play
William Shakespeare writes and presents a play (within a play) about Stephen Paul
Miller's attempt to explain his Ph.D. Dissertation, Three Self-Consuming
Mechanisms of the Mid-1970's: John Ashbery's "Self-Portrait" in a Convex
Mirror, The Watergate Affair, and Jasper John's Crosshatch Paintings, to John
Ashbery, Richard Nixon and Jasper Johns. In 1997, Duke University Press is slated
to publish a revised version of this dissertation entitled The Seventies Now:
Nixon/Ashberry/Johns.
Jasper Johns sings Eruch Jessawala Said. (Eruch Jessawala is one of Meher Baba's
closest disciples. Baba was silent for 44 years, and Eruch interpreted Baba's hand
gestures to the world.) Nixon in China sings Talks To Teachers. Shakespeare, who
has not been invited to a poetry reading for almost four hundred years, sings
Lately, I've Been Working As A Model In A Life Study Class as he walks across the
Williamsburg Bridge on a beautiful Spring day when the bridge is closed to
vehicular traffic due to a structural defect.
Thomas Buckner sang in the premier of "Avon" and premiered all four songs in
concert. Avon was produced at 8BC and also at St. Mark's Poetry Project in NYC
with Tom Buckner and Taylor Mead.
WHATEVER BERNHARDT GOETZ
play by Stephen Paul Miller
produced at 8 BC's National Theater For The Lower East Side and also at The Bad
Museum, NYC with Taylor Mead, Mary Sutton, Peggy Lowenberg, Julius Klein, and
Phil Suraci
Theatre Pieces
RIOT ROT (11' 9")
a text-sound and music theatre piece designed for radio (rock band with singer,
two speakers)
SOAP TUNING
(two speakers)
ZEN PIECE
(two speakers)
Band
SUITE FOR WINDS AND PERCUSSION
commissioned and performed by The Staten Island Symphony, conducted by
Robert Kogan
OVERTURE FOR BAND
performed Damrosh Park, NYC by The New Wilderness Band
Multimedia
SHE WROTE
(2 violins, mezzo with multiphonics, tape) texts by Gertrude Stein and Kathy
Acker
written for Stein's 100th birthday
first performance 1750 Arch Street
M.A. thesis composition, Mills College
also performed Cabrillo Festival and The Kitchen NYC
HE SAID
(two clarinets, video tape, speaker, audio tape) commissioned by the San
Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble, John Adams conductor
also performed at The Kitchen, NYC
video by Jack Briece
THEY DID IT
(piano and tape) first performance The Kitchen, NYC
also performed by Sorrel Hayes in Europe
RECITAL PIECE
(piano and tape) graphic score
first performance Ann Marie Mooney, Mills College
TOWER OF POWER
(organ and quad tape) graphic score
first performance Linda Collins, Mills College Chapel
TULIP CLAUSE
(tenor voice, alto flute, B-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor sax, string bass, cello,
organ, timpani, tape) commissioned by The San Francisco Conservatory's New
Music Ensemble, John Adams, conductor
numerologically derived pitches
graphic score
tape based on lecture regarding Jupiter at Chabot Observatory
also performed Cabrillo Festival
published in a book entitled ED VOGELSANG-"VIEWS BESIDE..." edited by Fritz
Balthaus, Berlin 1982
VALID FOR LIFE
(tape and large strung instruments and large soft membranophones
piano strings and timpani can be used with large soft beaters) graphic score
published in ASSEMBLINGS edited by Richard Kostelanetz
first performance Mills College by the composer and Sybl Chickenmint
PEACHY KEEN-O
(tape, female voices, organ, electric guitar, vibraphone, large membranophones,
improvisatory dancers, light) graphic score
first performance Mills College with Hysteresis
GOOD-BYE BRIDGET BARDOT OR HELLO CHARLOTTE MOORMAN
(cello, tape, with or without dancer and green cloth) performed 1750 Arch Street,
Berkeley, CA and Composers' Forum, NYC
SKATE SUITE
(violin, mezzo, cello, electric bass, tape) Commissioned by the Diane Jacobwitz
Dancers. Also performed at The Kitchen, NYC.
MORNING VIEW & MAIDEN SPRING
(tape, speaker, slides, light)
MUSIC FOR MYSELF
(piano, mirrors, vibraphone, voice, light)
THE MESSIAH IS COME
(revised to be THE BRIDEGROOM IS HEAR)
collaboration with sculptor, Paul Cotton
human sculpture with internal and external sound sources, tape, string bass, flute,
voices, speakers, piano, percussion, slides
produced at 1750 Arch Street, Berkeley, CA
HALLOPHONE
(environment, 2 sax, steel guitar, voice, tapes, slides, dancers
commissioned and produced by Nanny Goat Hill, San Francisco, CA
Tape
GERMAN SWALE
commissioned and played as an environment for three German art galleries
ODE
(heard The Kitchen, NYC)
TULIP CLAUSE AND BUCHLA BIRD HISS DOWN THE ROAD OF LIFE
JOAN
(15 track version of the pitches only in the oratorio)
THUS SPAKE JOHNSTON
(uses the voice of Jill Johnston) broadcast KPFA
String Quartets
JANUARY SWALE
(Clearwater String Quartet, first performance) This is a swale that includes a lot
of partying framed by a theme going forwards at the beginning and backwards
near the end, a Janus. Because it was written with Carol Buck and her children in
mind, there is a small children's theme just after the introduction which runs in
and out later on in the piece. An aeolian alleluia interrupts and returns later a
half-step down. It ends with the feeling of a "starry night" at the original tonal
center.
PENNYROYAL SWALE
(Soldier Quartet, first performance) Pennyroyal is a member of the mint family
and a healing herb with a distinctive odor. Pennyroyal Swale combines
folk-related vernacular music with "classically" developed techniques in an open,
somewhat repetitive form. The work is dedicated to Mr. James Roy, the now
deceased ex-head of Concert Music at BMI, a great Southern man who was a big
help to women composers and to me especially. It has been performed at the New
Music Festival at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, the Soho Baroque Opera
Company, and at St. Michael's in New York City.
ROSEMARY SWALE
(Soldier Quartet, first performance) Rosemary Swale is dedicated to Rosalie
Calabrese who ran American Composers Alliance for many years. Rosemary is not
only a cooking herb but is also a fixative for perfume--perfect for Rosalie who
combines functionality with aesthetics.
MUSIC FOR CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE
(graphic score)
I AM UH AM I
(graphic score)
performed Mills College, Oakland and Intersection, San Francisco by Ear Ensemble
exhibited various shows
Brass Quintets
SATURDAY/SUNDAY SWALE
(Saturday Brass Quintet, first performance, Eclectix, NYC)
THE BRASS SWALE
(Saturday Brass Quintet, first performance, Eclectix, NYC)
Brass Quartets
THE BRASS SWALE
(quartet version) first performance The University of the Redland's New Music
Ensemble, Barney Childs, director
Mixed Ensembles for 3-8 players
PIANO CONCERTO
2 violins, viola, cello, string bass, percussion includes marimba and drum
set+, piano; The first performance was at Merkin Hall, NYC 10/97 on the
Interpretations Series with Joseph Kubera, soloist.
NEW MEXICO SWALE
(flute, percussion, violin, viola, cello) first performance Music Under
Construction, NYC
The swatches in this piece are in a variety of styles and feeling states somewhat
descriptive of the diverse regions of New Mexico.
AUGUST SWALE
(flute, oboe, French horn, bassoon, violin, viola) first performance Bennington
College's Chamber Music Conference (Frank Wiggelsworth, musical director)
where I was in residence
also performed Muisc Under Construction, NYC
The swatches in this piece are in a variety of styles and feeling states including
anxious modernity, cheerful Americanism, passionate "gypsiness" and round,
modal resolution--a sort of life cycle.
BELGIAN TANGO
(violin, accordion, piano) performed and recorded by The Tango Project for
Newport Classics
performances at Bard College & Nell's in NYC
piano solo version exists, as well
NET WORK
( saxophone quartet and two pianos) commissioned by Barbara Jo Fleming's
Commotion Dance Company
a piano solo version exists, as well
REVEL
(electric violin, B-flat clarinet, E-flat saxophone, B-flat trumpet, trombone, piano,
percussion, string bass) commissioned and performed by the University of the
Redlands' New Music Ensemble, Barney Childs, conductor
also performed by the Brooklyn Symphony, Tania Leo, conducting
orchestral version exists, as well
TRIO: DREAM IN "d"
(violin or flute, cello, piano) recorded for Tirreno
performed by Downtown Music Productions
also by Aviva Players, NYC and by Gramercy Ensembles, NYC
THE EIGHTH ANCESTOR
(violin, flute, cello, piano; or, flute, oboe, cello, piano; or, flute, clarinet, cello,
piano; or baroque flute, alto recorder, cello, harpsichord)
first performance DelBarton Baroque Ensemble
also performed by The ISCM in Belgium
published by Joshua Corp/General Music, order # 1234 ($12.95) via The Boston
Music Co.
SKATERS' SUITE
(violin, flute, cello, piano
or, flute, oboe, cello, piano
or, baroque flute, alto recorder, cello, harpsichord
or, violin, cello, string bass, mezzo) pub. Joshua Corp./General Music, order #
1235 ($12.95) via The Boston Music Co.
WATER STRIDER COURRENTE
(flute, clarinet, string bass, percussion, organ, piano) orig. a part of SKATE SUITE
first performance Experimental Intermedia, NYC
ALLELUIA
(two celli and two tenors; or, two trumpets & two tenors)
LITTLE TRIO
(flute, cello, guitar)
Instrumental Solos/Duets:
RHODE ISLAND SWALE
(harpsichord or piano solo) first performed by Elaine Comparone, Harpsichord
commissioned by Bobby Buecker.
The piece begins with a Phrygian folk-like tune which ends with a turn (BCBAB).
This is followed by a lochrian tango and an aeolian melody in which the
harpsichord sings words whose text remains mysteriously hidden under the
music, ending with a turn (ABAGA). The text is derived from an English translation
of the Heine poem "Auf flugeln des gesanges", "On Wings of Song", as loosely
condensed and paraphrased by Jason Serinus (the prize-winning whistler who
performed Puccini's "O mio babbino caro" as the voice of Woodstock in an
Emmy-nominated Peanuts cartoon). The next group of swatches includes an
aeolian minimalistic section marked "mindfully", a d-minor tune, a G-major
choral, a C-major folk-like tune, and some lochrian mysterioso, along with
various kinds of connective tissue. In the next section the original musical groups
are cut up with some fiddle music, moving backwards and forwards and in new
tonal areas. The work ends with a shortened version of the Heine section on 'e',
rather than 'a'. The figuration at the end is a turn (EF#EDE). The poem within the
piece is: "On wings of song my beloved, I shall take you away/ Away to the banks
of the Ganges/ There I know the loveliest spot/ The birds will sing, the gazelles
will leap/ And arm in arm, we shall fall into a dream/ A dream of bliss. "
SEPTEMBER SWALE
(harpsichord or piano solo) first performed by Elaine Comparone, Harpsichord,
Beucker & Harpsichords; also performed at the Butler Institute of American Art,
Youngstown, Ohio; at Richmondtown Branch Library on Staten Island and 80
Langdon Street in San Francisco by Joseph Kubera; and in Allentown, PA, by Elaine
Comparone
GUITAR SWALE
(two acoustic guitars) commissioned and performed by University of the
Redlands' New Music Ensemble, Barney Childs, director
also performed at Cal State Hayward's Musica Delle Donne
It combines various oriental scales with Satie-like lyricism.
MAY SWALE
(viola) commissioned by Mimi Dye
premiered by Mimi Dye at Old First Church in San Francisco on 5/30/97
FLUTE SWALE
(flute) commissioned and performed by Andrew Bolotowsky
PREPARATION FOR THE DOMINANT: OUTRUNNING THE INEVITABLE
(ocarina or flute or violin solo) for Andrew Bolotowsky, published by Joshua
Corp./General Music order # 1237 ($4.50) via The Boston Music Co.
SHAKUHACHI RUN
(flute with or without hand drum) for Andrew Bolotowsky
THE PRAYING MANTIS AND THE BLUEBIRD
(flute and piano) for Andrew Bolotowsky, published by Joshua Corp./General
Music order # 1238 ($4.95) via The Boston Music Co.
LULLABY OF THE EIGHTH ANCESTOR
(flute or violin and piano) published by Joshua Corp./General Music order # 1236
($4.95) via The Boston Music Co.
DR. BLOOD'S MERMAID LULLABY
(flute or violin or cello and piano) for Andrew Bolotowsky
also performed by the Aviva Players, NYC
BELGIAN TANGO
(3' piano solo) commissioned and performed by Yvar Mikashoff
WALLONIAN WALTZ
(3' piano solo) often performed with BELGIAN TANGO as a pair
MANOS INQUIETAS
Part I, II, and III (piano solo) parts may be played singly-15'-20'@- or together
commissioned by Bonnie Schiebman Dancers
first performance Cunningham Studio, NYC
Part II performed by Joseph Kubera at Cami Hall, NYC
QUILT MUSIC
(30' piano solo) commissioned by Daniel McCusker Dancers for his choreography
entitled TAKING SIDES, performed St. Mark's Dance Project, NYC
NET WORK
(10' piano solo) A version for sextet and a 6' version for piano solo both exist. A
longer version was commissioned by Montclair State College and first performed
at their Spring Dance Festival.
Songs
LULLABY
(a capella low voice or low voice with keyboard/guitar chords) 1997, words by
Stephen Paul Miller
LULLABY
(mezzo or baritone and piano) 1998, words by W.H. Auden, dedicated to Ned
Rorem
THE ANGEL
(12') (soprano, harp, celeste, 2 violins, viola, cello) words by Hans Christian
Andersen as translated by Mrs. E.V. Lucas with additional lyrics by Anthony
Calabrese
The Angel was commissioned and first performed by The Shore Festival of Classics
in Ocean Grove, NJ. It has also been performed at Greenwich House Music School
and Beucker & Harpsichords
The Angel tells the story of a sick girl who died, and was taken to heaven by an
angel, who allowed her to pick flowers to take to God who would choose one. To
this one flower, He would give a voice so that it could sing in heaven. The child
chose the flower that had been her only comfort on earth and God gave it a voice.
AVON
(Four songs for medium voice and piano) words by Stephen Paul Miller
TALKS TO TEACHERS
ERIC JESSAWALA SAYS
THE NEW TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK
LATELY I'VE BEEN WORKING AS AN ARTIST'S MODEL IN A LIFE STUDY
CLASS
DREAMING FIELDS
(song cycle of 3 medium voice songs with piano) words by Eugene Field. These
may be sung singly or together.
1.THE SUGARPLUM TREE
2.THE DUEL
3.WYNKEN, BLYNKEN, AND NOD
KNOTS
(medium voice with piano) Knots has words by R.D. Laing, the eminent
psychotherapist. They are taken from his book, Knots, (1971). In his introduction
he writes, "The patterns delineated here have not yet been classified by a Linnaeus
of human bondage. They are all, perhaps, strangely, familiar. In these pages I have
confined myself to laying out only some of those I actually have seen. Words that
come to mind to name them are: knots, tangles, fankles, impasses, disjunctions,
whirligogs, binds."
A WAY BACK HOME
(low G to High F) voice and piano; words by Joann Krestan
THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE
(soprano and piano) words by Robert Louis Stevensen
JUNK LOVE
( medium voice and piano) words by the composer
THE ONLY ONE I WANT
(medium voice and piano) words by the composer
WOMANRITE
(contralto and piano) words by Ana Perez
performed City University of NY Graduate Center by Julius Eastman
TWINKLE TONIGHT
(medium voice and piano) words by the composer
TIME STANDS STILL
(medium voice and piano) words by the composer
BEAUTY RUNS FASTER
(medium voice and piano) words by the composer
HE SAYS HE'S GOT
(medium voice and piano or guitar) words by the composer
IN SIX
(medium voice and piano) words by the composer
PARANOIA
(medium voice and piano or medium voice with two C-flutes) words by the
composer
first performance University of Kentucky
also performed at The Kitchen, NYC
A DAY
(medium voice and piano) words by the composer
first performance at the University of Kentucky; A Day was also performed at The
Music At DelBarton Series, The Kitchen, and the Soho Baroque Opera Company. A
Day is not meant to be heard by anyone's employer.
A POSTCARD
(medium voice and piano)
A Postcard was first performed at the University of Kentucky. IT has also been
performed at The Music At DelBarton Series, The Kitchen, and the Soho Baroque
Opera Company. The words for A Postcard were very difficult to copyright
because of their common usage.
Rounds
MY LAUGHING CHILD
words by Bici Forbes, now known as Nye Ffarrabas
published in ROUNDS GALORE!, 1994, edited by Sol Weber, >
Rounds
MY LAUGHING CHILD
words by Bici Forbes, now known as Nye Ffarrabas
published in ROUNDS GALORE!, 1994, edited by Sol Weber, >
available from Sol Weber/Astoria Press, solweber@juno.com 25-14 37th Street,
Astoria, NY 11103-4228
IF YOU HAVE A THOUGHT IN YOUR HEAD
words by the composer
to be published in ROUNDS GALORE! Vol. II, edited by Sol Weber,
available from Sol Weber/Astoria Press, solweber@juno.com 25-14 37th Street,
Astoria, NY 11103-4228
Chant/Mantra
INCLINE THINE EAR TO ME
words from The Bible
first performance The Kitchen, NYC
also performed Buecker & Harpsichords
Text-Sound
Text-sound is the use of words and phonemes to make a kind of vocal-percussive
music.
IF I WERE A POET
(1m17s) solo voice
recorded for NPR
COUNTRY TIME
(1m 41s) voice, drum set, with or without taped bird calls
recorded for NPR broadcast
THE PEOPLE RUMBLE LOUDER
( 52s) voice with tape
recorded for NPR
YES SIR REE
(1m 25s) voice and percussion
recorded for NPR
LET IT
(2m 47s) solo voice
I CAN'T STAND IT
(1m 57s) voice and drum set: recorded Dial-A-Poem Poets LP and private
label and for NPR
performed Whitney Museum of American Art
I WISH I WERE SINGLE AGAIN
(1m 3s) solo voice
OCEAN MOTION MILDEW MIND
(1m 27s) voice and drum set
recorded for private label and NPR
JOHN CAGE
(20s) solo voice
other name poems for: Alison Knowles, Jackson MacLow, Martha Graham,
John Giorno, various others
TORERO PIECE
(7m 53s) two voices
3'30" version recorded on1750 Arch Records
published in a book entitled ED VOGELSANG-"VIEWS BESIDE..." edited by
Fritz Balthaus, Berlin 1982
SIX STORIES IN SERIES
(6m 40s) speaker and piano
SALLY'S SUCCESS
speaker and piano
CRACKERS AND CHECKERS
solo voice
HE'S NOT AFRAID OF MARRYING ME
solo voice
NONGOVERNMENTAL PROCESS
solo voice
TWELVE BAR BLUES
solo voice
KITCHY KITCHEN
solo voice
PE-YO-TE
solo voice
published in a book entitled ED VOGELSANG "VIEWS BESIDE...", edited by
Fritz Balthaus, Berlin 1982
Film Score
WORLD HONEYMOON
for Sunrise Films
Radio Production
POETRY IS MUSIC
for National Public Radio
eighteen 8' programs designed to be used as drop-ins for magazine shows
each one presenting a different text-sound artist and his/her work