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1956 Stopping by Woods - song - Frost (voice & piano)
Premiere: Ithaca, NY Cornell Composer’s Club
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1956 Voices - song - Witter Bynner (soprano voice & piano)
Premiere: Ithaca, NY Cornell Composer’s Club
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1959 Hymn - song - Montgomery (chorus)
Premiere: Sage Chapel, Cornell University
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1959 Theme and Six Variations - solo (piano)
Premiere: Cornell University
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1960 Three Short Pieces - solo (piano)
Premiere: Cornell University
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1960 Duo for Flute & Bb Clarinet (flute & Bb clarinet)
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1961 Three Studies - solo (piano)
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1961 Theme and Counterpoint - solo (piano)
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1961
Halloween - song (
soprano voice & piano)
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1961 Solo Piano - solo (piano)
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1961 Theme and Variations (piano-four hands)
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1961 Heaven-Haven - song - Hopkins (soprano voice & piano)
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1963 Look Down Fair Moon - song - Whitman (soprano voice & piano)
Premiere: Catherine Rowe, soprano
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1963 Northern Lights song - Kelly (chorus & piano)
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1963 Strings in the Earth and Air - songs - James Joyce (soprano voice & piano)
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1964 The Birth of General R. E. Lee (oboe & piano)
Premiere: Fort Dix, NJ
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1966 Two Christening Songs - songs - William Blake (female voice & guitar)
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1966 Presidio 27 (soprano voice & brass quintet)
Premiere: The Juilliard School
Recording: Opus One Records
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1967 Chamber Music - song - James Joyce (soprano voice & piano)
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1967 Easter Wings - song - Herbert (soprano voice & orchestra)
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1967 Canonic Theme & Variations (instrumental)
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1969 Two Studies for Woodwind Quintet (woodwind quintet)
Premiere: The Juilliard School
Recording: Opus One Records
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1969 Song - performance piece - Edward Field (speaking voice, oboe, trombone, viola)
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1969 The Roman de Fauvel - songs - various texts (mezzo-soprano voice, percussion & piano)
Recorded: Opus One Records. Catherine Rowe, mezzo-soprano
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1969 Two Studies for Solo Piano - solo (piano)
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1970 The Ominous Box (chamber orchestra)
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1970 Upon the Death Sir Albert Morton’s Wife - song - Sir Henry Wotton (bass voice & piano)
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1970 Parta Quies - song - A.E. Housman (alto voice & piano)
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1970 The Flautist’s Companion - song - (2 alto voices{1 female, 1 male} & flute {doubles alto flute})
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1970 Two Epitaphs - song - Herrick (bass voice & piano)
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1970 Dances on the Cuchabamba - la Pampas Railway (piano four hands with percussion)
Premiere: The Battery Dance Company, Jonathan Hollander, choreographer
Also: 2004, The Juilliard School
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1971 All in the Morning - song - (women’s chorus {2 part} & guitar)
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1971 Matin Song - song - Heywood (soprano voice, harp, guitar & percussion)
Premiere: The Juilliard School
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1971 Six Koans - songs - (soprano voice, flute, three drums)
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1971 Danse Faerique - solo (piano)
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1972
The Death of Yukio Mishima - One act chamber opera (
soprano & orchestra)
Premiere: The Juilliard School, Elise Ross,
soprano
Recording: Opus One Records, Jeanne Ommerle,
soprano
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1972
Cradle Song - song (
women’s chorus & guitar)
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1972 Spring - 5 songs (tenor voice & piano)
Premiere: NYC, Richard Shadley, tenor
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1972 – 73 SIS[S]IS - Songs & Interludes (soprano voice & orchestra)
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1973 Pied Beauty (chorus & electronic tape)
Commissioned by: The Lincoln Center Student Program
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1973 An Wasserflüssen Babylon (2 pianos)
Premiere: The Juilliard School
Recording: Opus One Records
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1973 To the Water Nymphs - song – Herrick (soprano voice & piano)
Premiere: Sarah Lawrence College
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1973
Dirge In Woods - song - Herbert (
soprano voice, harp, percussion [orch bells, vib, marimba])
Published: Margun Music
Recorded: Opus One Records-Jeanne Ommerle,
soprano; Alyssa Hess,
harp; Joseph Passaro,
percussion
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1974 Cathy’s Undisclosed Piece - solo (piano)
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1974 Two Songs - songs - Lyly, Coleridge (soprano voice & piano)
Premiere: Carnegie Recital Hall, Jeanne Ommerle, soprano
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1974 How the News Was Spread (flute, clarinet, violin, cello & piano)
Commissioned by: Anne & Francis Thorne
Premiere: Carnegie Recital Hall
Also: The Lenox Arts Center
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1974 - 77 Spring - song - Thomas Nashe (tenor, percussion & two pianos)
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1975 (1991) Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun (clarinet, cello & harpsichord)
Published: Margun Music
Premiere: The Juilliard School
Also: Tanglewood - The Fromm Foundation Concerts
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1975
From The Bat-Poet - song - Randall Jarrell (
soprano voice & saxophone quartet)
(soprano/sopranissimo, alto, tenor, & baritone)
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1975 Music of the Wind Road (percussion & tape)
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1975
Prick Song (
harp)
Premiere: The Juilliard School
Recording: Opus One Records
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1975 LESIUSSIUDELIESUDELIUS - solo (piano)
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1976
Tetramorph (
four timpani & electronic accompaniment)
Premiere: The Juilliard School
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1976 Grand Triumphal Wedding March in C Major- solo (organ)
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1978 The Twelve Points of the Modified Mercalli Earthquake Scale - performance piece (soprano voice, orchestra & magnetic tape)
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1974 Easter - song - Spenser (chorus & organ)
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1977 Slow Loris (harp & double bass)
Premiere: The Juilliard School – Joseph Tamosaitis, double bass & Alyssa Hess, harp
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1978 Upon Westminster Bridge (two pianos)
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1978 Alexander’s Dark Band (alto fl-clarinet, bass clarinet, horn, trumpet, tuba, percussion, piano, violin, double bass)
Premiere: Parnassus at Carnegie Recital Hall
Also: 1980 – The Louisville Symphony, Peter Leonard, Conductor
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1978- 80 Black Mamba (piano, percussion, cello, & clarinet)
Premiere: David Stock, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
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1979 7 Songs on Poems of Ronald Cassetti - song cycle - Ronald Cassetti - (mezzo-soprano voice, violin, piano & [tri,tamb,claves])
Premiere: Jenneke Barton at Carnegie Recital Hall
Also: Craftsbury VT.
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1979 Three Pieces for Flute, Viola, & Harpsichord (flute, viola, & harpsichord)
Premiere: Carnegie Recital Hall - Res Musica
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1980 Night Prelude (clarinet, cello, piano & percussion)
Premiere: Carnegie Recital Hall – Meyer Kupferman, clarinet
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1980 Property - One act chamber opera - Kessler (mezzo soprano voice & chamber orchestra)
Commission & premiere: Jenneke Barton – Craftsbury VT
Also: 1999, The Juilliard School
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1980 Pythagoras and the Four Hammers (percussion quartet)
Commission & premiere: Barry Jekowsky – San Francisco State
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1981 Aftermath - song - Longfellow (soprano voice, flute & strings)
Premiere: Carnegie Recital Hall, Michael Parloff, flute
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1981 Four - songs - Davenant, Carew, Thomas, Breton (mezzo-soprano voice & piano)
Premiere: Carnegie Recital Hall - Jenneke Barton, mezzo-soprano
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1981 Consonanze Stravaganti (brass quintet)
Premiere: The American Brass Quintet (commission)
Recorded: The American Brass Quintet. ‘American Visions’ Summit Records
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1981-86 Three Tableaus (woodwind quintet)
Premiere: Sarah Lawrence College
Also: The Virtuosi Wind Quintet
Atlantic Music Festival
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1982 Night Concerto (percussion quartet)
Premiere: Jonathan Haas, Peabody Conservatory
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1983 Dances For Five (flute, clarinet, marimba, percussion, & bass)
Premiere: The New York Quintet (NY5) William Moersch, Keith Underwood, James McElwaine, Dennis Masuzzo, Jonathan Haas
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1983 9 Choruses song cycle of Wendy Chen (children’s voices, percussion, & two pianos)
Premiere: The Juilliard School
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1983 Moon’s Ending (cello & marimba)
Premiere: St Peters Church, NYC – Evelyn Steinbock, cello & Jonathan Haas, marimba
1984
A Poison Tree - song - William Blake (
women’s chorus {3 part} & clapping)
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1984 Sound, Sound the Clarion - song - Thomas Mordaunt (women’s chorus, piccolo, bassoon, harpsichord, clapping)
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1984 Les Barricades Mystérieuses - song - Christopher Hewitt (women’s chorus, piccolo,
bassoon, harpsichord, & clapping)
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1985 Elegy (clarinet, English horn, & cello)
Premiere: Carnegie Recital Hall, Meyer Kupferman, clarinet
Also: Sarah Lawrence College
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1985 Four Storm Scenes (flute & harp)
Premiere: Carnegie Recital Hall, Linda Chesis & Sara Cutler
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1985 Merlin - solo (marimba)
Commission & premiere: Merkin Concert Hall in New York City , William Moersch
Recording: William Moersch, Nancy Zeltsman, numerous others
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1986 Thy Voice, As Tender as the Night - song (men’s chorus & piano)
Premiere: San Francisco
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1986
You’ll Love Me Yet - song - Browning (
male chorus (TTBB) & piano)
Premiere: San Francisco
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1986
A Boy’s Song - song - (
men’s chorus & piano)
Premiere: San Francisco
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1986 Help - song - Hamish & Norma Menzies (baritone voice & piano)
Premiere: Los Gatos, California
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1986 Music at Twilight - solo (piano)
Premiere: New York City, Jed Distler, piano
Also: 1999 the Juilliard School Andrew Thomas, piano
2001 Hong Kong, PR, China Andrew Thomas, piano
2002 Guang Zhou, Pr China Andrew Thomas, piano
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1986 Brief, On a Flying Night (marimba & vibraphone)
Premiere: The Peabody School
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1986 Jessica’s Song - solo (timpani)
Premiere: Carnegie Recital Hall, Jonathan Haas
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1986 O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, & piano)
Premiere: NYC, The Virtuosi Quintet
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1986 Ho, Ho, Ho (woodwind quintet & piano)
Premiere: WNYC, The Virtuosi Quintet
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1986 Love, Happiness and Peace - song - Hamish & Norma Menzies (alto voice & piano)
Premiere: Los Gatos, California
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1987 I: In Memoriam II: Metanoia (orchestra)
Premiere: The Shreveport Symphony, Peter Leonard, Conductor
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1987 Witchhowl (Hexengeheule) (marimba & timpani)
Premiere: Carnegie Recital Hall, William Moersch & Jonathan Haas
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1987 My Dear - song - Hamish & Norma Menzies (baritone voice & piano)
Premiere: Los Gatos, California
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1987 7 Songs on Poems of Lope de Vega Carpio - songs - Lope de Vega Carpio - (alto voice, harp, oud, & vielle)
Premiere: Alhambra - Carnegie Recital Hall
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1987 Let Me Sing to You of Flowers - song - Hamish & Norma Menzies (voice & piano)
Premiere: Los Gatos, California
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1988 Spiral Motion - song - Michael Thomas (soprano voice & piano)
Premiere: The Juilliard School
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1988 The Princess and the Pea - oratorio - Thomas (three choruses & chamber orchestra)
Prmiere: The Juilliard School
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1989 Prelude for Frederic - solo (piano)
Premiere: Miller Theater, Columbia University
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1989 Loving Mad Tom - marimba concerto (marimba & orchestra)
Premiere: The Shreveport Symphony, William Moersch, marimba; Peter Leonard, Conductor
Also: Berlin: 1998 Evelyn Glennie, marimba; Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor
Seoul: 2005 The Korean Symphony, Simon Boyar, marimba; Andrew Thomas, Conductor
Recording: Opus One Records - The Polish State Radio Symphony; Simon Boyar, marimba; Andrew Thomas,Conductor
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1990 Four Scenes from the Summer Palace (orchestra)
Premiere: The Juilliard School, Eugene Becker, Conductor
Also: 2004: The Guangxi Symphony, Nanning, PR China, Andrew Thomas, Conductor
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1990 Echo - solo (organ)
Premiere: The Juilliard School, Harvey Burgett, organ
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1991 So, We’ll Go No More a-Roving - song - Lord Byron (baritone voice & piano)
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1991 The Great Spangled Fritillary (marimba & violin)
Commission & premiere: Marimilon, Boston MA. Nancy Zeltsman, marimba & Sharon Leventhal, violin
Recording: GM Records
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1993 Lord Cavendish Strikes the Right Note (marimba & harpsichord)
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1993 The Face of That Angel - song - Rumi (soprano voice & piano)
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1994 Earlier Than Morning - song - Gene Scheer (high voice & piano)
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1994 The Blind Man & the Elephant - oratorio - John Godfrey Saxe (children’s chorus & piano)
Premiere: 1994 St. Bernard’s School, NYC
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1995 Sleep Baby - song - Gene Scheer (baritone voice & piano)
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1995
The Broken Chord - performance piece - Michael Dorris (
speaker, piano, & violin)
Premiere: The Juilliard School, Sharyn Bires,
violin, Constance Moore
, piano
Also: 1995 Hartford, CT, Sharyn Bires,
violin, Constance Moore
, piano
1996, Lancut, Poland, Howard Kessler,
speaker, Andrew Thomas,
piano
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1995Another New Voice Teacher - song - Gene Scheer (high voice & piano)
Performed: Lincoln Center Live: Renée Fleming, soprano & The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
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1996 The River - song - Gene Scheer (baritone voice & piano)
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1996 Find Me a Primitive Man - song - Gene Scheer (mezzo-soprano voice & piano)
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1996 This Happy - song - Gene Scheer (voice & piano)
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1996
Wonderful Story - song - Gene Scheer (
soprano voice & piano)
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1996
Say Anything - song - Gene Scheer (
baritone voice & piano)
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1996
Sniff, Sniff, Sniff - song - Gene Scheer (
baritone voice & piano)
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1996
Honestly - song - Gene Scheer (
bass voice & piano)
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1996
I Want to Take You Out Tonight - song - Gene Scheer (
baritone voice & piano)
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1996
Lean Away - Gene Scheer, (co-composed: Gene Scheer & A. Thomas, arranged: A. Thomas) (baritone voice & piano)
Performed: Nathan Gunn, baritone with The St. Louis Symphony (Orchestra 2-2-2-2 4-2-2-0 Timp. Perc. Hp. Str)
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1996 Like a Crack in a Teacup - song - Gene Scheer (baritone voice & piano)
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1996
The Concert Review - song - Gene Scheer (
soprano voice & piano)
Premiere: Lincoln Center, Margaret Lattimore,
soprano
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1998 From Old Grandmother’s Reminiscences - solo (bassoon)
Premiere: Northwestern University, James Jeter, bassoon
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1998 Wedding Waltz (tenor sax, keyboard & bass)
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1999 Wind - solo (Marimba)
Premiere: Japan, Makoto Nakuro, marimba
Also: 1999, The Juilliard School
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1999-2001 Three Transformations (duo marimba)
Premiere: Marimilon
Also: 2011, New York University (Percussion Department)
Orchestral Transcription Premiered: 2011, Atlantic Music festival Waterville, ME.
Recording: Nancy Zeltsman & Jack Van Geem (duo marimba)
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2000 The Heroic Triad - guitar & percussion concerto - Kessler - (guitar, percussion & string orchestra)
Premiere: Santa Fe, NM - 20th Century Unlimited Commission, David Leisner, guitar, Yehuda Gilad, Conductor
Recording: Opus One Records - The Polish State Radio Symphony,
David Leisner, guitar; Simon Boyar, percussion; & Andrew Thomas, Conductor
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2001 Morning Twilight - solo (piano)
Premiere: Victoria Mushkatkol - The Juilliard School
Also: 2004 Andrew Thomas, piano
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2003 For the Class of 2003 - song - Gene Scheer (soprano voice & piano)
Performed: Renée Fleming, soprano - The Juilliard School, 2003 Commencement
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2004 A Samba (2 solo flutes, 2 flute choirs, piano, harp, strings, 2 percussion)
Also: (2 solo flutes, 2 flute choirs, 2 piano, harp, 2 percussion)
Premiere: The Juilliard School, Carol Wincenc, flute & Robert Langevin, flute
Also: many others
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2005 Crane by the River Li (traditional Chinese orchestra)
Premiere: Attached Middle School of The Guangxi Arts College
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2005 Valse triste - solo (marimba)
Premiere: The Juilliard School, Simon Boyar, marimba
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2008 Focus of the Heart - Two act ballet (Western orchestra, Traditional Chinese orchestra, & solo: sheng, Chinese flute, & piano)
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2011 Lullaby - (flute & guitar)
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2011 Prelude & Chorale- (violin solo)
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2012 A Quiet House- (piano solo)