Chamber Music

777 (2007) • duration:7'
Nothing is true—everything is permitted. A deliriously virtuosic piece of Crowleyana inspired by the angelic tables of Edward Kelley and John Dee. 
3 cellos 

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Amour Fou (1999) • duration:18'
A work of sensuality combining eroticism with mystical transcendence in a world of Surrealistic French decadence. 
vln, vcl; pno 

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Angelus Novus (1993) • duration:15'
A kabbalistic piece for winds dedicated to Jewish cultural theorist Walter Benjamin. In five movements: Peshat, Tzomet, Aliya, Herut, Pardes. 
ob (2), cl (2), bsn (2); hn (2) 

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Christabel (1972) • duration:8'
One of the most enduring of my student pieces, at the crossroads where Ives meets minimalism. A haunting. 
five solo flutes and viola 

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Kol Nidre (1996) • duration:8'
Meditation and prayer transcribed for four clarinets. 
clarinet quartet 

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Le Mômo (1999) • duration:16'
Inspired by the visionary 20th Century shaman Antonin Artaud, this intense, hallucinatory work charts the ritualistic road to madness and beyond. 
vln; pno 

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Music For Children (1996) • duration:14'
Toys, ice skating, candy, spanking, jacks, carousels, slides, snakes and ladders, treehouses, dolls, magic tricks, swings....a vision of children unlike any other. 
vln; perc, pno 

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Orphée (2004) • duration:8'
A modern reading of the Orpheus legend inspired by French Romanticism and Debussy's Sonata for flute, viola and harp. 
fi; vla; hp, cel/ hpschd, perc, electronics 

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Shibboleth (1997) • duration:14'
This fragile, elusive work was inspired by the writings of Jewish poet Paul Celan. Perhaps my most beautiful and enigmatic composition, certainly my quietest. 
vln, vla, vcl; perc, clavichord 

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Sortilége (2002) • duration:9'
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. 
2 bass clarinets 

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The Prophetic Mysteries of Angels, Witches and Demons (2007) • duration:9'
An intense and dramatically lyrical mini-concerto for flute accompanied by live foley sound effects/amplified percussion and electronics.  
flute, perc.(2), live electronics 

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Walpurgisnacht (2004) • duration:13'
The Night of Evil. A Witches' Sabbath in three movements. 
vn, va, vcl 

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