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777 (2007) • duration:7' |
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Nothing is true—everything is permitted. A deliriously virtuosic piece of Crowleyana inspired by the angelic tables of Edward Kelley and John Dee. |
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3 cellos |
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Amour Fou (1999) • duration:18' |
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A work of sensuality combining eroticism with mystical
transcendence in a world of Surrealistic French decadence. |
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vln, vcl; pno |
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• recording on CD: Love, Madness and Mysticism > buy CD |
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Angelus Novus (1993) • duration:15' |
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A kabbalistic piece for winds dedicated to Jewish cultural theorist Walter Benjamin.
In five movements: Peshat, Tzomet, Aliya, Herut, Pardes. |
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ob (2), cl (2), bsn (2); hn (2) |
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Christabel (1972) • duration:8' |
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One of the most enduring of my student pieces, at the
crossroads where Ives meets minimalism. A haunting. |
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five solo flutes and viola |
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Kol Nidre (1996) • duration:8' |
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Meditation and prayer transcribed for four clarinets. |
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clarinet quartet |
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Le Mômo (1999) • duration:16' |
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Inspired by the visionary 20th Century shaman Antonin
Artaud, this intense, hallucinatory work charts the ritualistic road to madness and beyond. |
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vln; pno |
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• recording on CD: Love, Madness and Mysticism > buy CD |
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Music For Children (1996) • duration:14' |
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Toys, ice skating, candy, spanking, jacks, carousels, slides, snakes and ladders, treehouses, dolls, magic tricks, swings....a vision of children unlike any other. |
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vln; perc, pno |
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• recording on CD: Music for Children > buy CD • recording on CD: Cartoon S/M > buy CD |
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Orphée (2004) • duration:8' |
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A modern reading of the Orpheus legend inspired by French Romanticism and Debussy's Sonata for flute, viola and harp. |
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fi; vla; hp, cel/ hpschd, perc, electronics |
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Shibboleth (1997) • duration:14' |
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This fragile, elusive work was inspired by the writings of Jewish poet Paul Celan. Perhaps my most beautiful and enigmatic composition, certainly my quietest. |
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vln, vla, vcl; perc, clavichord |
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• recording on CD: From Silence to Sorcery > buy CD |
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Sortilége (2002) • duration:9' |
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Witchcraft and sorcery....a spell, featuring perhaps
the most difficult music yet written for the bass clarinet. One of
the most energetic and outrageously spectacular pieces in my catalog. |
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2 bass clarinets |
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The Prophetic Mysteries of Angels, Witches and Demons (2007) • duration:9' |
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An intense and dramatically lyrical mini-concerto for flute accompanied by live foley sound effects/amplified percussion and electronics. |
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flute, perc.(2), live electronics |
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Walpurgisnacht (2004) • duration:13' |
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The Night of Evil. A Witches' Sabbath in three movements. |
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vn, va, vcl |
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• recording on CD: Mysterium > buy CD |
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